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The Good German 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Warner Brothers Catalog: DVD Release date: 2007-05-22 Media: DVD released in theatres: 2006 Running time in minutes: 108 DVD aspect ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 2006 Ean: 0012569736672 Upc: 012569736672  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on April 28, 2008 Summary: A fundamental War Noir! Since the days of Hitchcock's Topaz we had not had the chance to enjoy an original proposal around those unsaid and minuscule sins of war that are absent of the great headlines of the History. "The good German" is a splendid and potent Noir film that focuses exactly the day before the Potsdam conference. An American General (Clooney) is sent to Germany in 1945 after having performing as journalist in 1939 when he met Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchet), the femme fatale, whom eventually will have a torrid love affair despite of the fat she is still married with an important assistant of a key scientist who is developing a raising project by then, the V2. When an unexplainable homicide occurs, the thread will lead us to the hidden and sinister reasons backstage. Filmed in astonishing black and white, we feel the imperious necessity of Soderbergh to pay a homage not only the Noir genre, but besides the German Expressionism, the unforgettable film "The Third man" under the streets of Berlin and specially Casablanca (the last sequence is more than a simple referential) It's useless to say the principal star of the film is Cate Blanchet (one of the ten top actress all over the world) who really steals the show and looks light years around all the cast. She is the central nerve of the film from start to finish. Her German accent and her astonishing corporal gestures and the fabulous shots make of this film a winner but with just two inexcusable stains. The choice of Beau Bridges as the Colonel is totally unconvincing. He doesn't demonstrate the perverse energy the role demands, looking absolutely uncomfortable along the film. There's just an unforgiving flaw along the film. Pay special attention between the minute 30: 11 and 30:25 when we have the discussion between the General and the Colonel. When the discussion is over Clooney leaves the room and so we may observe the chair in which Clooney was sat, but when he is required and advised by the Colonel, the camera shows us the incredible: the chair simply has missed; an unforgiving mistake, keeping in mind the number of so many editors director assistant. That's why I can't give it five stars.  Written on April 24, 2008 Summary: buy the book instead The movie is stylish but the book is far more thought-provoking, intelligent and entertaining. This movie is so very loosely based on the book that I hardly recognized it. Written on March 16, 2008 Summary: Moody and dark Starring George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, and Cate Blanchette, The Good German is set in post-war Berlin. Newspaper reporter Jake Geismer (Clooney) is covering the peace talks, and enterprising young Tully (Maguire, in probably the least sympathetic role I've ever seen him play) is his military-assigned driver during the trip. Who should Jake run into but Lena (Blanchette), his former lover? And Lena now just happens to be involved with Tully. Sound like too much of a coincidence? You bet it is. When Tully turns up dead, Geismer spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out whodunit and why. Shot in black and white, in the film noir style, the cinematography is a beauty to behold. Rich, dark shadows with angles of light. Blanchette's hair, black for the film, stands out in sharp relief against her pale coloring. Costumes are gorgeous and almost worth killing for. Even the cigarette smoke cooperates, wafting eerily through the scenes. Unlike some previous reviewers, I thought the performances were unbelievable. Blanchette is a chameleon. I fully believe this woman can be ANYONE. Maguire was easy to hate as the mercenary Tully, which was a nice change for him. His boyish face, which has worked so well for him as an awkward hero in the past, adds subtle dimension to this role as a very hatable character. Written on February 29, 2008 Summary: MODERN FILM NOIR This is a very daring movie to make, i really dont know how the producers tought this would make money, I mean we all love Clooney and Blanchette, but this a hard film to make work. It's shot and lite like an old movie from the forties and the stilted dialogue and acting plays homage to these movies...at times it works, but frankly, mostly it does not. The story is flimsy and the pay off seems trite, it just sort of ends. I really didnt know what to expect, but from the start I was like..a movie studio o.ked this? wow!..as always, I hated tobey mcguire, all bug eyes and fake ernestness, but frankly I dont like him in anything, so you can take my review of him with a grain of salt..I was like, Clooney would figure out this fawning clown in a second, he would fool noone...the best thing i can say about McGuire in this movie is that much to my pleasant surprised, he's dispatched fairly early. The look of the movie was very well done and i sort of liked the film noir and the black and white. Unusual movie to get made in this day and age..not sure id recommend it, but hardly the worst movie ive seen this year...high praise indeed. Written on January 26, 2008 Summary: adjustment on the lighting anyone? read the novel. it was ok. saw the movie. got the director's intention. but some big problems. blanchett as dietrich/garbo. not a good idea. she's great, just poorly directed. too bad. clooney? he'll do. the problem is he is not a facially or emotionally conveying, expressive ennough actor to pull off a 'presentational' acting performance. he just comes across as moving stone. the soundtrack, at least on the dvd, is defective: dialouge is barely audible, have to raise the volume, then the music screams out. total imbalance and really irritating. my worst gripe is the lighting. sorry. it's all washed out. loved the black and white choice. obvious in this instance, but film noir did not wash out faces to the extent they are walking lightbulbs against a sheet of black construction paper. so who did the cinematography? i'm not in the film business, but the choices were right, just poorly executed. too bad. this kind of film, on paper, is what i dream of as a moviegoer. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2007-05-22 | 2007-05-22 | 2007-06-12 | 2007-05-08 | 2007-04-03 | 2007-04-17 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 2006 | 2007-01-12 | 2007-02-16 | 2007-01-19 | 2006-12-22 | 2006 |
| Running time in minutes | 108 | 140 | 111 | 125 | 168 | 123 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.33:1 | 2.40:1 | 1.85:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.40:1 | 2.35:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) |
| Format | AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC | Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0012569736672 | 0085391112921 | 0025193227621 | 0012569585577 | 0025192867125 | 0024543407201 |
| Upc | 012569736672 | 085391112921 | 025193227621 | 012569585577 | 025192867125 | 024543407201 |
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