Uli Edel (born 11 April 1947) is a German film director.
Edel was born in Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, Germany. After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well as popular U.S. mainstream cinema.
While still enrolled in film school, Edel started taking acting lessons. He wanted to know about the Stanislavski and Strasberg theories. After finishing the studies Uli worked as assistant director with Douglas Sirk and directed two TV productions.
In 1980 he joined Bernd Eichinger (production) and Herman Weigel (screenplay) for the authentic story of adolescent drug addict Christiane F., Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. It turned out to be a big domestic and international success when it was released a year later. Six years later the three reactivated their partnership once more for another success — Last Exit to Brooklyn, based on Hubert Selby’s dark, controversial 1964 novel about life on the breadline in 1952 Brooklyn. It starred Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Jerry Orbach, Burt Young, Ricki Lake, Alexis Arquette and Sam Rockwell. A haunting musical score was provided by Mark Knopfler of rock band Dire Straits. The film received excellent reviews and won Best Supporting Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and Boston Society of Film Critics for Leigh's performance as the tough, hard-drinking neighborhood prostitute Tralala, who is gang-raped in the story's tragic climax. However, the film remained a fringe success, probably because its theme was far too downbeat for mainstream consumption.
Look at you
Feeling all good
You can't resist
Have to be all
Up in it
Don't it feel great
Talking shit
I let it go
Why don't you just leave me alone?
My hearts gonna break from the fall
Holding onto petty things
Getting all the hate it brings
Why don't you just leave me alone?
What a puss
Think you're so tough
I'll take this shit
All i had was
Loving me
It was so good
But that wasn't enough
You ripped that away
Why don't you just leave me alone?
My hearts gonna break from the fall
Holding onto petty things
Getting all the hate it brings
Why don't you just leave me alone?
All that disses me
Over
Let me get
All the fortune you took from me
YOUR SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT!
NOTHING BUT A HERETIC!
SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF ME!!!!
FUCKING YOUR GUN WITHOUT ME?!!
Why don't you just leave me alone?
My hearts gonna break from the fall
Holding onto petty things
Getting all the hate it brings
Why don't you just leave me alone?
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!