The Movie King, 4/12 Inf, Baumholder 1989
2LT Dan Albert arrived in Baumholder with what must have been the most comprehensive collection of movies on video ever found at H D Smith Barracks, not excluding the storeroom of the Wagon Wheel Theater. Will have to go back through my emails to find out what other news I've had of Dan. Understand he ended up in Japan as an Aide-de-Camp to some general, but don't know any details.
In any case, if he turns up in Hollywood one day then remember that you first heard the tip right here.
One day I decided to put Dan to the test by asking after a copy of Das Boot -- and sure enough, he walked over to his cabinet and pulled the tape right off a shelf. This at a time when your average joe couldn't get his hands on even art house blockbusters.
What an amazing run of films the New German Cinema had in the 70s and early 80s! Herzog, Fassbinder, Wenders, Petersen and so forth -- no matter how anti-American and left wing -- well, watching their period work takes me straight back to life in Germany in those days. Hell, you can watch it with the sound off and it's still worth your while.
I've been in touch with the German distributor of Edgar Reitz's Heimat series with a view to getting this stuff released on DVD here in Australia. Good luck with that, I'd say. So why do I raise it here? Because Heimat was shot just up the road from Baumholder, in Morfeld.
But, once again, I see that I'm beginning to digress.
In any case, if he turns up in Hollywood one day then remember that you first heard the tip right here.
One day I decided to put Dan to the test by asking after a copy of Das Boot -- and sure enough, he walked over to his cabinet and pulled the tape right off a shelf. This at a time when your average joe couldn't get his hands on even art house blockbusters.
What an amazing run of films the New German Cinema had in the 70s and early 80s! Herzog, Fassbinder, Wenders, Petersen and so forth -- no matter how anti-American and left wing -- well, watching their period work takes me straight back to life in Germany in those days. Hell, you can watch it with the sound off and it's still worth your while.
I've been in touch with the German distributor of Edgar Reitz's Heimat series with a view to getting this stuff released on DVD here in Australia. Good luck with that, I'd say. So why do I raise it here? Because Heimat was shot just up the road from Baumholder, in Morfeld.
But, once again, I see that I'm beginning to digress.
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