Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

150 From Around The World: My Fave Foreign Films (150 movies items)

"  Here is a piece of German cinema that takes advantage of the sign of times that was the zeitgeist of the time in which it was released. It's also a good example of why this list, aside from my all time favorites list, has a much more concentration of highly rated pieces of cinema than many of the other of lists that I've posted up her on this site. Because it’s made up of movies that are a combination of independent and foreign genre, two types that offer an alternative to the typical Holly"

1001 Movies ... my own version (2000's) (100 movies items)

" Notes: I remember it very well, when this movie was released, it was a critical success so I had some pretty big expectations the first time around. Well, I’m glad I watched it again because I enjoyed it even more. Indeed, the concept might seem silly and you can imagine that an American movie would have gone for the cheap laughs but I was surprised by how subtle the damned thing turned out to be. Sure, to see the fall of the Berlin wall and of Eastern Germany in general from this perspecti"

1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)

" Notes: I remember it very well, when this movie was released, it was a critical success so I had some pretty big expectations the first time around. Well, I’m glad I watched it again because I enjoyed it even more. Indeed, the concept might seem silly and you can imagine that an American movie would have gone for the cheap laughs but I was surprised by how subtle the damned thing turned out to be. Sure, to see the fall of the Berlin wall and of Eastern Germany in general from this perspecti"

My Favorite Songs in the Movie Scenes (88 movies items)

"Yann Tiersen - Summer 78 Yann Tiersen - Good Bye Lenin! "

Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)

" Rating iMDB: My Rating: Director: Actors: Genre: The Plot:"

European Film Award - Best Movie (34 movies items)

"directed by Wolfgang Becker Nomination Dirty Pretty Things directed by Stephen Frears Dogville directed by Lars von Trier In This World directed by Michael Winterbottom My Life Without Me directed by Isabel Coixet Swimming Pool directed by François Ozon"

35 From 3: My Favorite Films From 2003 (35 movies items)

"  Back during the tail end of the 80's, which was also the tail end of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall and all that it represented was crumblin'. Well, actually, the wall itself was still holding up pretty good, but the politics behind it was starting to come apart. So. metaphorically speaking, it wasn't so much the Berlin wall that was crumblin' so much as it was the Iron Curtain. Germany, after it's decades long history of turbulence and social strife which resulted in its country being literal"