Lilo & Stitch

Starring:Zoe Caldwell, Tia Carrere, Daveigh Chase, John DeMita, Judi M. Durand, Valerie Flueger, Ana Fonell, Susan Hegarty, Amy Hill, Jason Scott Lee, Kevin McDonald, Mickie McGowan, David Randolph, Ving Rhames, Kevin Michael Richardson, Chris Sanders (III), David Ogden Stiers, Miranda Paige Walls, Karle Warren
Director: Chris Sanders (III), Dean DeBlois
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

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Warm, funny, and imaginative, Lilo & Stitch is the best animated feature the Walt Disney Studios have produced in years. On the planet Turo, mad scientist Jumba Jookiba (voice by David Ogden Stiers) has created a miniature monster programmed for destruction. When the monster escapes to Earth, it's adopted as a pet and named "Stitch" by Lilo (Daveigh Chase), a lonely little Hawaiian girl. Lilo and her older sister Nani (Tia Carrere) have been struggling to stay together since their parents died. Stitch and Lilo share some hilarious adventures, evading welfare officer Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames) and galactic police agents. They learn the timely lesson that a family can be something you're born into--or something you assemble. A warmth and sincerity that recall The Iron Giant and the films of Hiyao Miyazaki make Lilo a delightful fantasy adults and children can truly enjoy together. --Charles Solomon

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"As Elvis might put it, you can't help falling in love with LILO & STITCH." -- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY. Out-of-this-world storytelling, stunning Disney animation, and wild and irresistible characters are at the heart of Disney's hilarious new animated adventure. This worldwide box office sensation is a heartwarming comedy about the power of loyalty, friendship, and finding your place in the world. On the lush and tropical Hawaiian Islands, an independent little girl named Lilo adopts what she thinks is an innocent puppy, completely unaware that he is a mischievous creature who has escaped from a faraway planet. Stitch takes Hawaii by storm, wreaking havoc and hanging ten while he evades the alien bounty hunters who are bent on recapturing him. It's an action-packed comedy the whole family will enjoy over and over again.

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Don't waste your time.......2007-05-17

This movie is a piece of junk. A "ET" that looks more like a demon is the hero?....COME ON!!! Don't lose your time over it.

Colorful.......2007-03-25

"Lilo and Stitch" was pretty colourful and suprising, I thought. Bit of a treat to watch, actually. Wasn't quite like a Disney, and yet it was. Sees an experimental alien Stitch lifeform crashland with a single mother and her daughter, Lilo. Worth a look for fans of unique animation.

My review on a animation Sci fiction !.......2007-03-17

I watch Lilo and Stitch last night on My computer for the first time !
I love the storyline of an alien and Lilo and funny movie , good idea !
The extra bouns feature that I watch last night was good talking about Lilo and stitch ! Great marriage with animation and scifiction in this flim !
visual more then 5 stars defenity on this animation flim scifiction !

Good movie, some mature content.......2007-03-13

Overall the DVD was good and very much appropriate for young children. However, after a couple of weeks it had fallen to the back of his preference list. We've not watched it in over a year now. I guess this isn't so different from any other DVD we have.

I would recommend this for young children. It does have a few concepts that are not appropriate, but are presented in a way that is way over the heads of children adn does have a few scenes that very concervative parents may term violent.

A child at heart............2007-02-24

This is one of Disney's more captivating modern movies. My husband and I don't have children, but we wore out the first VHS watching it. The acerbic nature of that little blue outcast is captivating. The basic morals that the story plays out are good for kids. But the humor keeps me buying copies as I burn them up.

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The Devil's Arithmetic
Starring: Kirsten Dunst , Brittany Murphy , Paul Freeman , Mimi Rogers , and Louise Fletcher
Director: Donna Deitch
Manufacturer: Showtime Ent.
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ASIN: B0002CX1NY
Release Date: 2004-09-21

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Executive producers Dustin Hoffman and Mimi Rogers present the truth of the Holocaust so a new generation can understand why it must never be forgotten. Kirsten Dunst plays Hannah, a modern teen more concerned with trends than history. During the traditional Passover dinner, she zones out as her relatives harp about concentration camps. But then Hannah passes through a portal to the past, where she becomes her own ancestor in Poland during the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Director Donna Deitch provides an infinite library of Holocaust detail, re-creating the period with minute dedication. Haunting images, every costume, every hair, every light and shadow conspire to maintain a sense of desolate desperation. Suspense pervades as escapes fail and mothers with newborns are taken away. Only the magical context of the story, taken from the original children's novel by Jane Yolen, allows for a life-affirming ending. The performances may not be multifaceted but, considering the single-mindedness of the tale, the deep commitment of the actors makes every moment real and meaningful. Dunst seems able to carry a movie herself, and Brittany Murphy is mesmerizing as Hannah's sweet cousin Rivkah.

The message is powerfully direct, but the film avoids extreme violence in deference to young audiences. The theme is enshrined in the Rivkah's words: "We must stay alive to tell everyone what we've been through." Indeed, when Hannah returns to the present, she is a new woman, with a profound love of her culture and a religious respect for the value of all human life. --Lloyd Chesley

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Based on the popular novel by Jane Yolen, a typical American teenager gets transported back in time and experiences firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust and discovers the meaning of her family's heritage.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Starring: Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman , Akim Tamiroff , Arturo de Córdova , and Vladimir Sokoloff
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Release Date: 1998-11-17

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Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
Starring: Dakota Fanning , Jillian Henry , David Ogden Stiers , Jennifer Hale , and Chris Sanders (III)
Director: Anthony Leondis , and Michael LaBash
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ASIN: B0007Z9R0M
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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The unforgettable story of Stitch and Lilo continues in Disneys hilarious all-new movie LILO & STITCH 2. Your favorite characters return in this heartwarming comedy about bringing friends and family together even when they seem worlds apart. Before the other 625 experiments land in Hawaii, Stitch is living the good life. He helps Lilo follow in the footsteps of her mother as she prepares for the big island hula contest, but when Stitch gets a glitch, their perfect world goes haywire. Now its going to take Lilo, Nani, Jumba, and a whole lotta "Ohana" for them to save their funny little friend. With three classic Elvis Presley songs and exclusive bonus material, LILO & STITCH 2 is a whole new wave of fun and excitement for the entire family.

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Familial love proves all-powerful when Stitch gets a glitch that encourages bad behavior and threatens his relationship with Lilo in Lilo and Stitch 2. Like the first Lilo and Stitch, this straight-to-DVD sequel focuses primarily on Stitch, Lilo, and Lilo's sister Nani. Stitch's nightmares about misbehaving prove prophetic when he begins experiencing moments of uncontrollable badness. Unfortunately, Stitch's unruly actions always seem to interfere with Lilo's important preparations for the May Day hula competition--a competition that Lilo desperately wants to win in her mother's memory. Jumba goes to work creating a fusion chamber that will re-charge Stitch's molecules and purge his badness, but he can't seem to build one that works. In the end, it's Lilo's faith in herself and the power of Ohana that offer the only chance to cure Stitch and fill his goodness level to the top. (Ages 3-12) --Tami Horiuchi

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Toute Une Vie (And Now My Love)
Starring: Marthe Keller , André Dussollier , Charles Denner , Carla Gravina , and Charles Gérard
Director: Claude Lelouch
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ASIN: B0000E69JB
Release Date: 2003-12-09

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Internationally renowned director Claude Lelouch intimately explores destiny and true love in this romantic delight. Admired by movie lovers around the world, this fascinating film encompasses a variety of filmmaking styles and illustrates the 20th century through the intertwined lives and destinies of three generations. Marthe Keller (Marathon Man) is magnificent in multiple roles, and André Dussollier (Amélie) shines as her soul mate. A film that can be enjoyed again and again, Toute une Vie is fated to be one of your favorites. Academy Award® Nomination: Best Original Screenplay, 1975.

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The Stationmaster's Wife
Starring: Elisabeth Trissenaar , Kurt Raab , Bernhard Helfrich , Karl-Heinz von Hassel , and Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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ASIN: B0009WIE8Y
Release Date: 2005-09-27

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The Stationmaster's Wife, a drama of post-WWI Bavaria based on Oskar Maria Graf's novel Bolweiser, was originally presented as a three-hour-plus event for German television. In preparing his theatrical cut, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder shaved away the subplots and supporting characters to focus tightly on the story of railway stationmaster Bolweiser (Kurt Raab) and his philandering wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). Set in late-1920s Bavaria, Bolweiser is a Nazi party man surrounded by grotesque, toadying underlings at the station but is pathetically servile to his increasingly frustrated, unhappy wife. Disgusted by her weak-willed husband, she finds passion in the arms of the butcher. Bolweiser ignores the town gossip and even perjures himself to defend his wife in a trial--an act which later dooms him. Exquisitely photographed (by Michael Balhaus) and beautifully designed, Fassbinder's lush, romantic style suffuses his caustic portrait of the self-destructive Bolweiser (a painfully perfect performance by Raab), and the petty small-town citizens who seal his fate. Even as Bolweiser sinks to the depths of self-pity, Fassbinder's gorgeous, shimmering canvas makes the small-minded doings look so much more tawdry. --Sean Axmaker

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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Starring: Lilith Ungerer , Kurt Raab , Lilo Pempeit , Franz Maron , and Harry Baer
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , and Michael Fengler
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ASIN: B0002VEVDO
Release Date: 2006-05-30

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder turned to color for his fourth film, a bleak portrait of middle-class banality. Kurt Raab, the plump, baby-faced art director usually cast as the director's most pathetic characters, stars as Herr R., a seemingly successful middle-class professional and happily married family man who stumbles through life like a grinning zombie. As one might guess from the title, Herr R. (an appropriately vague, undistinguished character that Fassbinder leaves unnamed to better stand in for a German everyman) is about to go over the edge, and the film shows us why in relentless, numbing detail. At work he's an insignificant figure of ridicule; at home he escapes into endless hours of TV when not killing time with empty small talk (largely improvised by the cast), and he soon slips into a listless depression compounded by constant headaches. Fassbinder and codirector Michael Fengler don't make the experience easy for us. The film is as purposely banal as the chatty droning of the soundtrack, shot in a hypernaturalistic approach with a palette of muddy, dull colors that give the picture the quality of a faded Polaroid. There's a genius to the gesture, and the film marches inexorably to a harrowing climax, but it's not for all tastes. Even Fassbinder fans admit that this is a tough film to get through. --Sean Axmaker

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A GAY CLASSIC
If only Mom were still alive
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"Everyone's to be had..." (Fox)

Fox and His Friends
Starring: Harry Baer , Marquard Bohm , Karlheinz Böhm , Peter Chatel , and Adrian Hoven
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
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ASIN: B000065AZ9
Release Date: 2002-07-02

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The original German title, Faustrecht der Freiheit, which roughly translates as "Might Makes Right," describes rather bluntly the crux of this compelling drama, one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most acclaimed films. Fassbinder takes a rare starring role as Franz--"Fox" to his friends--a gay carny thrown out of work when the cops close a fairground sideshow. Introduced to a group of cultivated homosexuals by an antique and art dealer (Karlheinz Böhm of Peeping Tom fame), he becomes involved with high-class dandy Eugen (Peter Chatel), who finds the naive, uneducated innocent easy prey when he unexpectedly wins 500 thousand marks in the lottery. Eugen alternately flatters and humiliates Fox, ridiculing his working-class manners and tastes while sponging off his fast-disappearing fortune. The story is partially autobiographical, inspired by Fassbinder's own relationship with an illiterate butcher, but the director casts himself as the victim in the cinematic incarnation and turns his tormentor into a veritable vampire. Biographical considerations aside, it remains one of Fassbinder's most affecting, accomplished, and personal films, and he delivers a sweet, wounded performance as the proletariat Fox in a den of cultured, upper-class hounds. His evocation of the affluent gay community is catty and brittle, but ultimately this powerful drama is less about sexual orientation than class, power, and sexual control. --Sean Axmaker

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A GAY CLASSIC.......2006-12-18

"FOX AND HIS FRIENDS"

A Gay Classic

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

"Fox and His Friends" (Wellspring Video) caused a great deal of controversy when it was first released in 1975. Many thought that the story of a gay sideshow worker who won the lottery and was then exploited by his upper class lover was homophobic. Fassbinder, the famed gay German director even said that the movie could have been about a heterosexual couple but it would not have been as clear. Fassbinder also plays the central character, Fox, and his street skills and humor do not reach full potential because of his naiveté as his snobbish boyfriend scams him out of his lottery winnings. As Fox becomes more and more demoralized the movie moves along to its inevitable conclusion. What sounds so depressing here is really quite the opposite as this is a film filled with subtle humor.
What the movie is really a character study of a not-too-smart circus worker who suddenly finds himself wealthy and is a touching film with a great performance from Fassbinder. It is also a strong examination of the German class system and gay relationships in Germany in the 1970s. It is an unsentimental and even guileless film most of the time as well as droll and melodramatic as well as poignant and tragic,
Fox knows before he even enters the lottery that he is going to win so on his way to buy a ticket, he allows himself enough time to have sex in a local public toilet. As he revels over his win in a gay bar, he becomes involved with a pretentious and arrogant character that is already in a relationship but pretends to love Fox as he scams him out of his winnings.
The film is also a good study in how to make a really good movie as it is an example of a movie that never loses its focus. It is a study of sexual and political issues that were relevant in the 70s and still relevant today. Whenever I see a Fassbinder movie I am literally blown away. He challenges all that I know and in his own way forces the viewer to have an experience he has never had before. The movie is full of cliché but Fassbinder is conventional like this for a reason He is truth and he makes movies about truth and as we know, truth is not always easy to take. Fassbinder is known for wallowing in the less fortunate but he does it with grace and compassion. His films are usually focused on the barriers between classes and this movie is a noir film about a gay relationship.
Fassbinder was very brave to cast himself in the role of Fox, a role that is unromantic and unflattering. We see that Fassbinder is not content with the gays that are fixated on money and looks but his own film as a great deal of male nudity and these are the kind of men that Fox finds attractive. This is a movie that can be watched again and again and understood differently every time. It never becomes stale and the tongue-in-cheek quality of the movie makes it completely captivating. There are intelligent observations on the motivation of society, political aspirations and above all else on human nature. It is an example of human manipulation. This is really a film that set the way for many films that were follow in the genre known as gay cinema and should be a valuable addition to all libraries.

If only Mom were still alive.......2006-10-29

I was very disappointed in this film. While it is well done and the acting and casting was good, frankly this film is not at all worth having to endure the subtitles for. Perhaps if it were in english it would have been better, but I found it very boring and depressing to watch. It drags on for over two hours with the same poor guy being ripped off at every turn. I can relate somewhat to the main character but it is certainly not entertaining or a "feel good" movie. Really the only part that wasn't good was the plot. It does make you want to react in several parts, and feeling for "Fox". It is the story of a man searching for love but unable to find real happiness. I doubt I will ever want to watch this one again. Could have been much better with a different screenplay writer. It fell way short of it's potential. The DVD doesn't offer anything along the lines of extras, but filming quality is good. Maybe you will like it more than I did, but probably not unless you are just really in the mood to be depressed. Not recommended.

A Tale of Deceit, Power, and Victimization: Fassbinder at his Best!.......2006-08-07

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has long been honored as the 'bad boy' in European cinema, a writer/director/actor who repeatedly has taken chances and because of his brutal honesty has succeeded in making a stream of important films. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS dates back to 1975 and remains one of Fassbinder's most successful films. As with all of his films, Fassbinder deals with the homosexual subculture in Germany but his main message goes far beyond the characters he creates: the examination of how people manipulate people for personal gain and the destruction that produces is a recurring problem and one that this film certainly explores.

'Fox' - a nickname of Franz Bieberkopf - (acted with consummate skill by Fassbinder himself) is a lower class gay carny kid whose lover is arrested, leaving the carnival to collapse and leaving Fox without support. Enter handsome Max (Karlheinz Böhm), a wealthy antiques dealer, who picks up Fox, helps him buy the requisite 'lottery ticket' on which Fox bases his hopes for financial survival (!) via manipulative means, and takes him home, introducing Fox to his gay friends who regard Fox as scum but show obvious physical attraction to his rawness. Surprisingly Fox wins the lottery and suddenly has 500,000 DMs and with his new money, Max's friends abruptly see a target for obtaining that money. One of the friends named Eugen (Peter Chatel) takes Fox in as a lover and talks him into investing in Eugen's family business of bookbinding. Eugen's father Wolf (Adrian Hoven) and mother (Ulla Jacobsson) tolerate their son's life with a low class wretch, ridiculing his manners and lack of culture and education, but willingly take his money to salvage their business.

With a lover and a business and a role model to make him suave, Fox dons fancy clothes, banters with his old friends in a tawdry club, and makes the pretenses that at last he is secure and happy. But in time Fox is blamed for problems at the business and when his funds have been depleted on expensive vacations and apartments by the smarmy self-centered Eugen, Fox realizes that now without money he has no 'fancy friends', no lover, no security and his life becomes unbearable: the ending to the film is a tragedy beyond description.

Some would say the film is mannered in ways that depict stereotypes of the gay world (effeminate men, transvestites, opportunists, hustlers, etc), but Fassbinder is completely honest in his attempt to recreate a subculture of a specific time in Germany. And the characters are well written and well acted allowing us to look at Fassbinder's greater picture of depravity between social class antipathies. In many ways this is a difficult film to watch, but Fassbinder wisely places the main character that he enacts in a place where his foibles and lack of higher-class knowledge can be at once very humorous as well as pitiable. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS has some minor flaws but it has already become a classic in gay cinema repertoire. In German with English subtitles. Grady Harp, August 06

Nice Guys Finish Last.......2005-07-14

Fassbinder gave it all in this film. To play the lead,he lost a lot of weight & was willing to go naked. Fox is a nice guy but a loser. Suddenly he wins the lottery. Aspiring to upgrade his life, he gets in a relationship with a "class" guy. Eventually Fox finds his new friends are worse than the old ones. By then he's lost everything. Fox is often reviewed as gay cinema, but I would like to see a straight film with the same plot. Fox can be taken to be the curse of being in the wrong body. To me Fox is more about Fassbinders fear that to be a good guy is to lose.

"Everyone's to be had..." (Fox).......2004-10-25

Fassbinder himself exudes a natural impish charm as the streetwise ex-carny Franz Biberkopf, who loses his gig as "Fox the Speaking Head" when his carnival barker boyfriend is arrested for tax evasion as Fox and Friends opens. Down and out, and unable to borrow a few marks from his perpetually inebriated sister, he gets into the significantly older Max's car for a quick trick. Before getting down to business, Fox manages to scam the local florist for enough cash to buy that last prayer for the hopeless, a lottery ticket.

But wait, old girl, it just so happens that Fox has purchased the winning ticket...

Max (Karl-Heinz Bohm) cuts a truly Mephistophelean character as an antiques dealer who seems less interested in sex than in watching the predictable machinations of human nature with a jaded eye and a knowing smirk. After befriending the ill-mannered, working class Fox, Max throws him to his snobbish, affected, status-obsessed "friends" - after letting it slip that Fox has recently come into quite a bit of money. Fox puts the moves on Eugen, who he describes to his bar buddies as "posh and a little prissy". Fox soon finds that while his "natural intelligence" gets him through the day in his usual social sphere, he is outclassed among his new friends. Seeing an opportunity to save the family business, Eugen begins to "assist" the fish-out-of-water Fox in spending his newfound wealth.

Fox's old drinking buddies at the grungy neighborhood homo watering hole speak for the audience, warning Fox to save his money and stick to what he knows. And Max, though certainly the instigator behind Fox's growing troubles - seems to half heartedly hope that Fox turns things around and comes through as a street-smart underdog.

While Fox and Friends is based on a culture-clash cliché, watching it played out amongst homosexuals in 1975 Berlin was a pleasure. There's a scrappy realness to the lower class characters, and a comical superficiality and pretension to the upper-middle class characters - who seem to be "positively aghast" at the smallest infraction of etiquette. Further, homosexuality never becomes the central issue. The film stays true to the core theme of class disparity. However, both the speed at which the story develops and the legal instability of Fox's connection to his prissy partner do seem to comment on homosexual relationships.

Fox and Friends is far more natural and less stylized than Fassbinder's Querelle, however, there are strange, surreal moments when artificial theatricality prevails over the realistic, straightforward filmmaking that makes the rest of the film believable. Whereas Querelle feels like an erotic dream, Fox and Friends is grounded in the real. Some might find the oddball touches and vignettes out of place, but they also give the film a certain sparkle and symbolism that make it special.

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"The story of impossible love"
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Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection
Starring: Hark Bohm , Marquard Bohm , Rudolf Waldemar Brem , Anita Bucher , and Peter Gauhe
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ASIN: B000093NQY
Release Date: 2003-06-24

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid tribute to his mentor, Douglas Sirk, with this loose adaptation of All That Heaven Allows, the classic American soaper of a widow falling for younger man to the disapproval of family and friends. Fassbinder combines the Sirk melodrama with the story told in his own The American Soldier. An aging, lonely charwoman (sweet old Brigitte Mira) befriends a Moroccan guest worker (El Hedi ben Salem) at least 20 years her junior. Finding comfort and happiness in one another's company, they suddenly marry. Her kids are aghast, his friends appalled, and the neighborhood turns its back, so the two pull together for support. Their relationship ironically begins to unravel when the pressure of community prejudice eases and they must confront the gulf between them. Combining melodrama with social commentary, Fassbinder offers a sharp, incisive portrait of prejudice in modern Germany grounded in contemporary social conditions. Mira delivers a tender, vulnerable performance and Fassbinder molds Salem's stiffness into a distinctive character trait of a man ill at ease in German society. It's an assured and beautiful film, full of gliding camerawork and evocative images, and invested with intimacy and gentleness. Even Fassbinder's characteristically grim conclusion defies tragedy for a glimmer of hope, a welcome and affecting rarity in his career. --Sean Axmaker

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surprise (and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies) they fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.

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"The story of impossible love".......2007-01-12

This powerful and gentle film tells the story of love and marriage of Emmi, a 60+ widowed German cleaning lady and Ali, a Moroccan immigrant mechanic who is more than 20 (I think close to 30) years her younger. Their affair and the decision to marry shocked everyone who knew Emmi: her grown children, her neighbors, coworkers (mostly, middle-aged widows as herself) and even the owner of a neighborhood grocery shop where she has been a loyal customer for years. The way clever and observant Fassbinder looks at their struggle to keep the relationship is deeply pessimistic - the couple could survive the obstacles that society would create for them. They can survive disapproval, misunderstanding and prejudice but at the very moment they think all problems are in the past, they find the emptiness inside and two lonely hearts together are even worse than one. The more I think of it the more I realize that "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" is among the best, the most poignant, gentlest and heartbreaking descriptions of unavailability for happiness ever filmed. What makes the movie even more poignant is the fact that both Fassbinder and El Hedi ben Salem, the man whom Fassbinder loved and who played Ali committed suicide in the same year, Fassbinder - a few weeks after El Hedi. The film is also a love letter to El Hedi. In one of the film's most moving scene, Emmi looks at the man with whom she so suddenly and desperately fell in love with admiration, longing, and wise sadness while he dries himself after the shower. It is not only Emmi looks at Ali, it is Rainer looks with love and affection at the man he loved through the lenses of his camera.

4.5/5

Two generations from Hitler.......2006-10-13

The movie is misnamed. The title makes you think that it is a horror flick, but there is little fear and no soul-eating going on.

A dark skinned Arab man from Morocco lives in Germany in the 1970s. The German people, just one or two generations from that happy Nazi Generation we were all so fond of, detest all foreigners and call most of them Ali. The greatest shame would be for a German woman to marry one, God Forbid. That would make her a whore.

Enter Emmi, a middle aged German widow. Enter Ali, a young Arab man who turns out to like middle aged German widows who are nice. They dance, they talk, they go to bed, they get married. It is an impulse marriage. They hardly know each other, and the engagement is a matter of hours, not months.

Much of the impact of the movie comes from the reaction that Emmi's neighbors, co-workers and children have to her apostasy. They shun her. One of her sons kicks her tv set in. It really doesn't pay for someone to be non-German in Germany. It gets you despised. A generation or two after murdering every Jew in sight, these lovely people are two minutes away from doing it again, to other foreigners in their midst. It reminds me of how proud the German people are of themselves in those beer commercials, and those car commercials, as they boast of their German heritage. I've never once seen a Toyota commercial boasting of its Japanese origin. On the contrary, many Toyota commercials are more American than apple pie, French fries and baseball.

It surprised me that a German language film would be propaganda against the German people. I'm not exaggerating. For half the film, you can't help but hate Germans because of how they are portrayed here.

The movie takes a sharp turn later on, and stops being a propaganda film against the German people and their racism. It starts to be about our happy couple, Emmi and her forbidden husband Ali. Each of them begins to show a fault or two, like Emmi's crotchety ways, bullying Ali about not eating couscous and becoming more German, and Ali's reaction, to seek out some solitude and an old girlfriend.

As for the German people, they stop being "haters" and start being "takers", as they decide to stop harassing and shunning poor Emmi because after all, they need a favor or two. For example, the son who kicked in her tv set now needs babysitting services, so he apologizes to mom. The store owner who threw the apostate couple out of his store changes his ways after realizing that he sure could use her patronage.

This is an eye opening movie. I had heard that the German people are extremely racist still, and hate Turks and other foreigners, and in fact attack them every chance they get, like German shepherds who were brought up badly. Well, now we get to see it, and from a German director no less.

I think it is an interesting touch that Fassbinder has his heroin Emmi going to Hitler's favorite restaurant. This is symbolic of the whole movie. She really has no aversion to Hitler, though she is warm and tolerant of foreigners if they just ease up on the couscous.

Touching Tale.......2006-09-23

The influence of director Douglas Sirk on the output of Fassbinder is notable. Like Sirk, Fassbinder utilised the melodramatic form (a form often dismissed by critics) to take apart and satirise the society he was a part of. "Fear Eats the Soul" is one of Fassbinder's more transparent efforts, as he shows the prejudice and jealousy eating away at the heart of society. But unlike "All That Heaven Allows" Fassbinder's subject matter deals with a very sensitive and touchy issue in German society at the time. The racial bigotry evident in the film is particularly disturbing, for it shows that the foundations of Nazism, which were after all based initially on racial prejudice are still very much alive. Interweaved into these concerns is a very human tale, which is very affecting on an emotional level. Relationships in Fassbinder films are regularly flawed and miserable prospects and he takes this to an extreme in this film, a doomed quality permeates every scene as does the decadence and apathy, reflected in the dull décor and sleepy character behaviour. The two central performances are touching and affecting, this is probably Fassbinder's most accessible and rewarding of films.

Deeply moving and touching. .......2006-07-21

This is a deeply moving and touching film about an odd-couple living in extremely racist society. I highly recommend it if you can find it. The film may bring many people to tears.

THE Film About Lonliness.......2005-07-12

I understand Fassbinder was raised in an orphanage. He was later immersed in celebrity & surrounded with fans.Nevertheless it seems all of his films have that "you can't get there from here" aura to them. In "Ali" an old cleaning lady meets a younger foreign worker in a bar. They are both alone & decide to dance. Two good people proceed to get into a doomed relationship. Nobody approves,so far so good.However inevitably in this world the "noble savage" gets sick. Hopefully more of a reflection on Fassbinder than us, but maybe not.

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Release Date: 2002-11-05

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The DVD read-along version of Lilo & Stitch grabs attention with almost too many cool features to collapse into a manageable bite. For starters, you'll need to find your way around a screenful of flags. Feeling unambitious? Listen and read along with the English narration, featuring the original movie voices of Ving Rhames and Tia Carrera. Up for a challenge? Flex your foreign-language muscles with the Spanish, French, German, or Italian versions. Then you're free to follow a condensed account of the spunky Hawaiian orphan girl who unknowingly adopts an alien. Future MTV addicts will want to skip forward to the music videos (the A*Teens' "Can't Help Falling in Love" and a children's chorus rendition of "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride"), while gamers will go for the feature that reinvents the remote as a joystick. The song section parades lyrics along the screen (take your pick of languages), and the vocabulary area allows for slipping in and out of foreign tongues while learning words like "ohana" (family). Two other options, "Search the Web" and "The Magical World of Disney," aren't much more than commercials, but if you like movie trailers, click away. Lilo represents a new, bookletless breed of read-along, but, for technophobes, it's comforting to know that its volcano of options isn't about to blow. Sparing yourself a DVD lava bath of bells and whistles is as simple as sidestepping a flag or two. -- Tammy La Gorce

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