Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, rainer werner fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, despair. Its no real secret that were reaching a tipping point with home video. Fassbinder, it has more of an international coproduction flavor, and, handsome look, definitely more period sets, costumes, and, make up, and, it looks like it was shot in a much longer, and, more mainstream shooting schedules, than other. Many filmmakers have left their own houses halffinished. Haynes film also adds a closet homosexual husband for the lady, cathy. In early1930s berlin, an elegant russian emigre and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelganger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Rainer werner fassbinder was only 37 years old when he passed away in 1982. This is a remarkable film, but i still wouldnt recommend it for the casual viewer who doesnt feel like a brain workout that night. Acclaimed german filmmaker rainer werner fassbinder will be the subject of a comprehensive twopart retrospective taking place at the film society of lincoln center this year. Despair despair eine reise ins licht 1978 rotten tomatoes. Fiction factory the cinema and its double rainer werner fassbinders despair revisited 1. The best movies by rainer werner fassbinder you must see. The rainer werner fassbinder collection 19731982 dvd.
A film centrally about mutilation and selfdestruction, a sense of overwhelming despair envelopes the depiction of the last 5 days of a. The autodidact auteur lists the 10 films that influenced his brief yet prolific career. All told, fear of fear is one of fassbinders minor films. The faustian character, wilmot, desires a higher truth.
Rainer werner fassbinder emerged in the late sixties to become one of the most prolific and influential filmmakers of what would become known as new german cinema. Region 2 this dvd may not be viewable outside europe. Rainer werner fassbinder was one of the most important figures in the development of the new german cinema movement from the late 1960s to the 1980s, along with the likes of werner herzog and alexander kluge. Discussion following with director annekatrin hendel. Encompassing hollywood melodrama and musical, bmovies and acknowledged european masterpieces, these eclectic selections are testament to the. Fassbinder was known for working with a stock company of cast and crew, with many of whom he shared profound and sometimes complex relationships like ali. Posts about rainer werner fassbinder written by julianwhiting. Many fassbinder films are influenced by the melodramas of the great filmmaker douglas sirk, and here the homage is made explicit the story is inspired by sirks all that heaven allows 1955, starring jane wyman as a woman who falls in love with her younger gardener rock hudson to the horror of her snobby children and her socalled friends. Rainer werner fassbinder quotes author of the anarchy of. Rosa luxemburg and the personal as political 2009 25. Set over the course of a 1980s weekend tournament for chesssoftware programmers. Romantic anarchist part i, set for may 16 june 1, were announced today.
Im wondering if any hardtosee fassbinders are on the program. P eople say that drugs killed rainer werner fassbinder, but after taking another look at his films and his writings, i have a different idea. To love without demands is the rarest of portraitfilms. To love without demands fassbinder friend and devotee christian braad thomsen takes a freudian lens to the life and career of the seminal filmmaker. He made 40 feature length films in a short but highly prolific career that. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and. Despite its virtues, the entire effect is a bit too schematic and narrowly focused. Rainer werner fassbinder taught himself cinema with these. But even within the confines of an alltoobrief filmmaking career, he managed to direct 50 different features, three shorts, and two revolutionary television series. Instead, i believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity. Rainer werner fassbinders controversial, fifteenhourplus berlin alexanderplatz. The rainer werner fassbinder collection 19731982 dvd rainer werner fassbinder director rated.
Margit carstensen, hanna schygulla, irm hermann, katrin schaake, eva mattes, gisela fackeldey in a sumptuous apartment lives a fashion designer, slavishly attended by her assistant, but the arrival of an attractive young woman whom the former wishes to use as a model changes the domestic power setup. Streaming is proving a better and better option for the casual consumer every day, and even the cinephile dollar, which has rather successfully driven home video decisions. Bean live performance at the london 2012 olympic games duration. But, with the possible exceptions of yasujiro ozu and john ford, fassbinder was the only one who. Haynes takes the same root of an upperclass lady from the 50s that takes interest into a differentrace gardener, an african american this time. To love without demands, metrograph presents a series counting down the legendary german directors ten favorite films, as published in 1982, a year before his death. He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the new german cinema movement.
Rainer werner fassbinders masterpiece defies categorization, equal parts. Fassbinder took sirks influence as a rebel critic in 50s hollywood and took it further in the postwar germany. From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the new german cinema enfant terrible rainer werner fassbinder refused to play by the rules. But despair stars dirk bogarde, is based on a nabokov novel adapted for the. Fassbinders bremer freiheit by pedram vossoughi by. From 1969 to 1982 he directed over 40 productions, most of them feature films, a few tv specials and one huge. Above all, rainer werner fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Rent rainer werner fassbinder movies and tv shows on dvd and bluray. Despair is a 1978 film directed by rainer werner fassbinder and starring dirk bogarde, based on the novel of the same name by vladimir nabokov. If you take out the shorts, the numbers are still crazy. Rainer werner fassbinder 19461982 has been called all of those things, and. Fassbinder, was a west german filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, cinematographer, editor, and essayist.
Fassbinders favourite star on surviving his abuse ryan gilbey. In a year with moons martha he has been called everything from a petty tyrant to the last great filmmaker of the 20th century. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1970, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avantgarde stage troupe that he had helped found in munich. I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. He tormented his actors, threw drinks at his cameraman, and. Subtitling the films of volker schlondorff in english ucl discovery. This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like douglas sirk on steroids. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, lydia, a zaftig emptyheaded siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. With margit carstensen, irm hermann, juliane lorenz, hanna schygulla.
A film portrait of the influential bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality. In little more than ten years, rainer werner fassbinder created an amazing legacy of fortythree films. Rainer werner fassbinder was the juggernaut of the german new wavea writer, director, actor, producer, editor as franz walsch, and occasional art director and dp who made 40 features in barely a dozen years. Despair 1978 rainer werner fassbinder, dirk bogarde. That figure includes both theatrical features and tv. In a year of thirteen moons is one of rainer werner fassbinders most. Rainer werner fassbinder you are my diamond duration. Dirk bogarde is on superb form in fassbinder s eerie adaptation of nabokovs novel about a russian emigres breakdown. He once said, famously, that he was trying to construct a house with his films, which is hard work. Despair is a sublime meditation about existence, and, its complex meaning.
The rushed production is a constant in fassbinders films but here it also leaves a few too many rough spots like incompletely sketched. Region 1 us and canada this dvd will probably not be. Rent rainer werner fassbinder movies and tv shows on dvd. Berlin alexanderplatz bluray rainer werner fassbinder. Love and despair a video interview with fassbinder friend and collaborator. Fassbinder often demands much from his audience and moons is a primal scream. In particular whether the english audio has subtitles and whether they are. This might as well be one of the most atypical movies ever directed by r. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. With dirk bogarde, andrea ferreol, klaus lowitsch, volker spengler. All my life i have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.
Ah, yes, and the word of juliane lorenz on a film that she has publicly trashed for decades with homophobic rants, no less should totally be taken seriously. If fassbinder were no real person but a fictional character created by thomsen, the film would endure as a deeply imagined. Rainer werner fassbinders first film in english was brilliantly adapted by tom stoppard from vladimir nabokovs novel set in 1930s. Rainer werner fassbinder directed 44 films in 18 years. Rainer werner fassbinder celebrity profile check out the latest rainer werner fassbinder photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Fassbinder definition and meaning collins english dictionary. It was entered into the 1978 cannes film festival similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. Fassbinder, werner herzog, and wim wenders amongst others, prioritised creative. Against the backdrop of the nazis rise, hermann hermann, a russian emigre and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. Fassbinder stars in his debut feature as a petty criminal whose desire for freedom is undermined by his emotional needs. Fassbinder retrospective set for may and november at film. Not everyone wants to be subjected to this much pain.
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