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Jun 19, 2024 · We discuss the career of the incredibly prolific writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and In a Year with 13...
Jun 11, 2024 · A radically strange, postmodern adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is grounded by a sweaty, seething, meaty eroticism—a confrontational sexuality that remains bracing.
Jun 23, 2024 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film, adapted from Jean Genet's 1947 novel 'Querelle of Brest,' is a dazzling high-wire act.
Jun 17, 2024 · What survives in this surprisingly stylized final film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder are the classic sailor outfits, their starched whites soaking up the buttery constant sunset of a...
Jun 12, 2024 · David A. Gerstner considers the sterilized presentation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Querelle” in its new rerelease....
Jun 25, 2024 · “Rainer Werner Fassbinder—Last Works” is a 1982 documentary directed by Wolf Gremm consisting exclusively of footage shot behind the scenes on the sets of two of Fassbinder’s last productions.
Jun 26, 2024 · “In the throes of an almost murderous puberty," around the age of fourteen or fifteen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz. Initially, the novel struck him as “boring”: the first third depicted the directionless chaos of Weimar without putting a claw in his mind, or making him want to continue reading.
