The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty Kick

[statto99]

...is being shown tomorrow (Sunday 15th April) at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford at 3:15pm and again on Monday 16th at 6:15pm.

I suspect there is not a more suitable group in the world that I could alert to this news.

[statto99]

Actually, it's the Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, isn't it? That kind of being the point of the ambiguous title. Apologies all round.

[ursus arctos]

Well, it was originally Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, which unambiguously refers to a kick from the penalty mark.

[statto99]

ursus, thank you for saving my blushes.

[Mr Cogito]

Even in English it (the film) was more frequently known as The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, which is probably a more accurate translation of angst as well as more of a clue to the existential themes that Wenders explores. I haven't read the book so who knows whether the hints of Camus are Wenders' or the novelist's. Anyway, as a young football fan I found it pretty baffling, later as a film student I loved it as a great example of German New Wave cinema. Enjoy!

[Benjm]

I prefer the Werner Herzog remake.

"The goalkeeper thought that the ball was his friend and that it would rush into his arms..."

[Mr Cogito]

Grizzly soundtrack though.

[Benjm]

Grizzly soundtrack though.

Heh. It's a weird one Grizzly Man; the bleak hilarity colours my memory of it much more than it did the actual viewing.