POLL 31: TRILOGY

My poll 31 is inspired by YELLA, a film which I like very much. YELLA is the final part of Christian Petzold’s Ghost Trilogy. Petzold talked about this in Cineaste Magazine which you can read from the link below:
http://www.cineaste.com/articles/an-interview-with-christian-petzold.htm

An excerpt from Petzold’s interview:

“But during preproduction for Die innere Sicherheit the concept of "ghosts" was very much present in my conversations with Harun. We almost worked one full year on the film, and during that period we often discussed the idea of people who have fallen out of history. The left has fallen out of history, too. In the autobiography of German communists in the 1930s, for instance, we frequently find that they feel not needed anymore: National Socialism is in power, Stalinism is not an alternative, so they end up in a no-man's land. For instance, Georg K. Glaser, author of the autobiography Geheimnis und Gewalt, moves to Paris as a coppersmith in 1935, where he initially hid and eventually lived the rest of his life. He invented the concept of "the silence of history" for himself. He suddenly realizes, as if on a sailboat on the ocean, that there's no wind anymore: a ghostly atmosphere, where no one needs you anymore, where there is no drive left. Based on these conceptual issues I began to think whether it is not the case that the cinema does not always tell stories about ghosts anyway: stories of people who have fallen out of love, out of work processes, people for whom there is no use anymore. Through these reflections we ended up moving from Die innere Sicherheit, which concerns the political left and terrorism, to the girls in Gespenster who have no biography, no genealogy, and for whom the generalized labor process has no use, to, finally, Yella, which is a film about a woman who exists in a twilight zone between death and life.”


Since I love all the three films in Christian Petzold’s Ghost Trilogy, I think I should make a list of my favorite trilogies here. Some of the trilogies below may be unofficial. Some are debatable if they are trilogies or not, such as Antonioni’s trilogy, because some consider them to form a tetralogy with RED DESERT.


I LOVE THESE TRILOGIES. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: L’AVVENTURA (1960); LA NOTTE (1961); THE ECLIPSE (1962)

2.DARIO ARGENTO: SUSPIRIA (1976); INFERNO (1980); THE MOTHER OF TEARS (2007)

3.LAURENCE ATTALI: EVEN THE WIND (1999); BAOBAB (2000); THE UNSHOD MAN (2003)

4.LUCAS BELVAUX: ON THE RUN; AN AMAZING COUPLE; AFTER THE LIFE (2002)

5.INGMAR BERGMAN: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961); WINTER LIGHT (1962); THE SILENCE (1963)

6.JEAN COCTEAU: THE BLOOD OF A POET (1930); ORPHEUS (1950); THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (1960)

7.WES CRAVEN: SCREAM (1996); SCREAM 2 (1997); SCREAM 3 (2000)

8.MICHAEL HANEKE: THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989); BENNY’S VIDEO (1992); 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (1994)

9.NATHAN HOMSUP + DHAN LHAOW: TEXAS SOMYOT MASSCARE: THE KILLING FIELD (2005); ULTIMATE WEAPON (2006); VINCENT ECLIPSE FAITH SKYMIRROR (2006)

You can watch this Thai trilogy without subtitles here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dix6v1U9F8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNNCyoR3LM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoNYvN_4y8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStckjUC-no
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwSQ5kiDb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dUo7aJhyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDlvGNAsDUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPfRZqm6n1M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz39rXI_vLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxGsHhqbaeM

10.AKI KAURISMAKI: DRIFTING CLOUDS (1996); THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (2002); LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (2006)

11.KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI: BLUE (1993); WHITE (1994); RED (1994)

12.PAUL MORRISSEY: FLESH (1968); TRASH (1970); HEAT (1972)

13.CHRISTIAN PETZOLD: THE STATE I AM IN (2000); GHOSTS (2005); YELLA (2007)

14.SWORDSMAN (1990, King Hu); SWORDSMAN II (1992, Ching Siu-Tung + Stanley Tong); SWORDSMAN III (1993, Ching Siu-Tung + Raymond Lee)

15.NAWAPOL THAMRONGRATTANARIT: PENGUIN (2007); GIRAFFE (2008); TAPIR (2008)

16.HANS-JUERGEN SYBERBERG: LUDWIG – REQUIEM FOR A VIRGIN KING (1972); KARL MAY (1974); HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY (1977)

17.ALAN RUDOLPH: THE MODERNS (1988); MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1994); INVESTIGATING SEX (2001)

18.LARS VON TRIER: BREAKING THE WAVES (1996); THE IDIOTS (1998); DANCER IN THE DARK (2000)

19.WIM WENDERS: ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974); THE WRONG MOVE (1975); KINGS OF THE ROAD (1976)

20.X-MEN (2000, Bryan Singer); X2 (2003, Bryan Singer); X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2006, Brett Ratner)

You can cast multiple votes.


--PENGUIN (2007, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit) will be screened again in the Twelfth Thai Short Film Festival on Saturday, August 30, at 18.30 hrs.


--In THE MOTHER OF TEARS, I saw a painting which I like very much. It is ORESTED PURSUED BY THE THREE FURIES (1862, William-Adolphe Bouguereau).