reactions on Baal
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-berlinale-2104-diary-2
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
the Houellebecq film looks interesting.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 7 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
Like to think Baal will get a week's release at the cinemas over here.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/21/filmmaker-as-photographer-still-life-with-rainer-werner-fassbinder/
― 龜, Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone ordered the catalogue?
http://www.shop-filmmuseum.de/epages/61390111.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61390111/Products/b_308_engl
I am very tempted to do so..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 March 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Fassbinder's Top 10 Pop Musicians
1. Elvis Presley2. Bob Dylan3. Rolling Stones4. Leonard Cohen5. The Platters6. Kraftwerk7. Roxy Music8. The Beatles9. Velvet Underground10. Comedian Harmonists
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
You think we don't know who The Comedian Harmonists are?
― You Never Even POLL Me By My Screenname (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Well I don't!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
Must a German/US thing
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
No, they are not that well known here either. For some reason I was under the impression that you spoke German and might be more familiar with them. There was a movie about them in the late 90s I think.
― You Never Even POLL Me By My Screenname (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
and at least one CD compilation too
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
in case you need to pick up some vegetables at the Merchant of the Four Seasons'
http://filmsociety.myshopify.com/collections/shop/products/fassbinder-limited-edition-tote-bag
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I was going to revive today: I'm on Episode Seven of Berlin Alexanderplatz
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
skip to the coda
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
^smart aleck
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.criterion.com/films/27953-the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
so it's Baal
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/baal
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
The restauration of World on a Wire will be shown in Copenhagen on sunday. It will be my first Fassbender.
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i am surprised! well worth seeing, not "major."
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
it is an anomaly in his cv but man does it look great
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Bitter Tears... getting the Criterion treatment too early next year
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Sooo many Fassbender films, overwhelming to start with. But if I like it, I'll probably check out the major ones as well.
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Frederick, the best way is to dip in. Watch whatever's available. I went on a huge spree ten summers ago as the movies became available on DVD.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
actually i found WoaW to be not much of an anomaly! He is his own genre: SF dreamworld, Genetian dreamworld, miserabilist postwar opiumworld, etc.
And see on a big screen whenever possible, esp w/ Ballhaus as DP.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
one approach (tho we have more stuff available now than when Canby wrote, such as TV work like WoaW):
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/03/movies/film-view-a-beginner-s-baedeker-to-the-genius-of-fassbinder.html
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I'd rate Fear of Fear and Ali higher but, yeah, judicious.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Well, there doesn't seem to be a single region 2 english-language blu-ray of a Fassbinder-film, but there is the 'commemorative collection' dvd-box, which is amazingly cheap (vol 1 is nine films for 12 £ on amazon). Reviews say video quality is variable, but apparantly the most well-known look good. Anyone who has them and can vouch for them?
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
actually i found WoaW to be not much of an anomaly! He is his own genre:
can't really argue w that, and I'm sure you're more of an expert than I. I've only seen Berlin Alexanderplantz, WoaW and Fear Eats the Soul. In general I prefer Herzog.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Werner Schroeter is the only director I'd compare Fassbinder to, working in Germany at that time.
1st stop Fassbinder is Ali, as wonderful as that is it feels like a stop for Year in 13 Moons.. and Bitter Tears... WoaW could work if you don't like him. If you do its not essential but its something you'll want to get around someday.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Not much to be gained from comparing them, they don't really have anything in common that I can see. (xp)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
WoaW is an anomaly in that it's the only Fassbinder to bore me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Aha. Haven't seen it.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
I've seen ones that aren't very good but I wouldn't say they bored me... "Rio Das Mortes" is pretty dull, mind you.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
I don't think Herzog and Fassbinder are similar, they were just contemporaries, New German Cinema etc.
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
haha, I just noticed that the Lincoln Center series has that next month and i'd never heard of it. xp
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Welllllll, it's no classic... though the opening scene might lead you to think otherwise
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
... and the closing scene, now I come to think of it... it's all the scenes in between that are the problem.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
well, that sounds like enough. plus Schygulla and G Kauffman.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
World on a Wire was quite good. Definitely had a very peculiar feel to it. If it hadn't been so obviously competently made, it could have been on one of those shows where shadow cutouts joke at all the jumping and explosions and weird sets with people diving into indoor pools or beautiful people dancing around topless. But there were many many great shots, and the use of mirrors was especially well done.
― Frederik B, Monday, 3 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
a highlight, sort of, from Rio das Mortes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsvqGAGj-c
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
Yes, I forgot that scene!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
Effi Briest is the first outright bore I've seen: a garrulous movie, talk talk talk talk.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Kamikaze '89 -- worth paying $8 to see?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
The American Soldier, part of the Eclipse series and not memorable: an abstracted gangster film punctuated by histrionic death scenes.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
I don't know, I think it's memorable, I prefer "Gods of the Plague" though. Am obsessed with "Why Does Herr R Run Amok?" at present.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
oh, there are some pretty memorable parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hEHJVpcI_M
and the whole thing is memorably ugly -- in an admirable way.
sometimes i think herr r. is his finest achievement! but it's not for the weak-willed, i suppose.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
anyone seen newish doc?
Director Christian Braad Thomsen had many opportunities to interview Fassbinder over the years, and using these never-before-seen discussions, plus interviews with members of Fassbinder’s company, Thomsen crafts a complex and brilliant analysis of the queer auteur’s controversial, all-too-brief life. “An epic yet intimate look at the German provocateur.” Indiewire
http://newfest.org/film/fassbinder-love-without-demands/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 October 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Do I actually want to go to a screening of KAMIKAZE '89 tonight?Did you end up seeing it, Morbs?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
nope
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Despair is one of his failures.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 October 2016 12:47 (seven years ago) link