RW Fassbinder: C/D, S/D, Y/DA-Y/DA

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You know, we attempted to do this once but they had a cap on how many movies you could rent out at one time at V1deo 2 G0 and slowly but surely the place's actually very impressive collection of RWF films started disappearing...so we kind of meh'ed it off and bogarted another director's collection instead. Lili Marleen is probably the one I like best when I think about it and force myself to decide.

big dvd release for half of his films pretty soon.

This is good news, cf. the first half of my post! When I go back to Amherst maybe we can work on completing our goal now.

as yet no-one's done 'the third generation' fer example.

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/index.php?c=y&s=c3081b19d9971d2ee5fc791fddcadc2c

Querelle
Veronika Voss
Lola
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Despair
In a Year with 13 Moons
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Bolwieser
Chinese Roulette
Satan’s Brew
I Only Want You to Love Me
Fear of Fear
Faustrecht der Freiheit
Mother Küsters’ Trip to Heaven
Effi Briest
Fear Eats the Soul
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The American Soldier
Beware of a Holy Whore
Rios Das Mortes
Gods of the Plague
Katzelmacher

kudos man.

it's fucking 28 hours long.

Veronika Voss
Lola
Despair
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Bolwieser
Chinese Roulette
I Only Want You to Love Me
Faustrecht der Freiheit
Effi Briest
Fear Eats the Soul
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The American Soldier
Beware of a Holy Whore
Rios Das Mortes
Gods of the Plague
Katzelmacher

natch it was made for tv.

Whatever, ppl be having their rather ridiculous strawmen shocker.

-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), May 5th, 2006.

dada otm, this is one of those occasions when you can safely ignore a famously egocentric cokehound.

I can see why he'd say he preferred it to be watched in larger chunks, though but there can be logistical difficulties with that (ie I'm hoping the movie theatre gave intermissions so viewers didn't have to miss 5 minute bits and pieces of the movie if they had to pee sometime during the 8 hours--and also for those of us who can hold it, so we don't have to miss parts of the movie for ppl getting up and down constantly!).

This should put paid to that little statistic.

Related question: I swore I saw a 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' DVD box set somewhere in a shop, but all searches on Amazon come up blank. Did I dream this up? Any idea when that might happen?

IT IS A TV SERIES

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/003110.html

esp. Chinese Roulette

this compilation is outstanding

on the Alexanderplatz Criterion box

How did we talk about movies before we had polls.

We groped and stumbled.

I watched the Marriage of Maria Braun this week and really, really enjoyed it. There are an awful lot of European films like that that don't do anything for me, so I was really surprised. I also managed to correctly guess he was a Gemini just by watching this film. I love all the short twists and turns to it and you never know exactly what to expect. At first the baffling ending troubled me and I thought it ruined the whole rest of the movie until I rewound and watched it one more time and then I understood. A very complex film, I thought, and a masterpiece.

I watched Querelle a long, long time ago with a friend. I don't remember what I thought of it, really. But I remember it had that famous French woman in it...Moreau, that's it. I remember there being something kindof humorous about her in that.

berlin alexanderplatz coming out in nov.

(er, on dvd)

Read a collection of essays, interviews, etc recently, greatly titled "Anarchy of the Imagination". There is a short story, of sorts - more like a film of his on 20 pages that kinda did my head in for the rest of the day hurrah.

He'd been wearing the white suit since 1970!

haha I know I know, he wears it in back to back films (American Soldier / Beware of a Holy Whore). Amazing he was able to keep it so clean in those 8 years. Then again, according to Kurt Raab, RWF "took more baths than the average German."

With Ingrid Caven, 1974.

https://img.welt.de/img/icon/partnerschaft/mobile174506691/2972503117-ci102l-w1024/Conrad-JENNINGS-Rainer-Werner-FASSBINDER-und-Ingrid-CAVEN-1974.jpg

Anyone have opinions on the new biopic?

Didn't know there was one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfant_Terrible_(film)?wprov=sfti1

It’s showing in DC soon but on a midweek

I saw this biopic last night. A lot of the anecdotes were familiar from the book Fassbinder Film Maker, by Ronald Hayman, which I read ages ago, and I've seen all the films they depicted. I thought the main actor was very skillful, capturing him at his kindest and cruelest, and the film captured the relationships among his troupe too. The visual style is expressionist, with lots of pools of blue and red light in the darkness, and no exterior scenes, but it nodded to Fassbinder's style without ever being cute or clever about it.
It's certainly better than Le Redoutable, the pointless Godard/Wiazemsky film that came out a few years ago, apparently the only biopic about a film director I've seen.

Finally watched Martha, a rather sour Sirk pastiche with hints of Gaslight.

It’s awesome—Fassbinder called it a sadist and a masochist finding the ideal partner. Is it on DVD?

And of course there’s this dynamo of a shot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiS2kJCLhgA

Yes, I saw it on DVD.

It's on Criterion Channel too.

Id put it into the second-tier because the first half faffs around a bit.

Gets more and more hysterical as it goes on.

what kind of freak gets in the front seat of a taxi

It's not top-tier RWF, sure.

I don't know, it's pretty damn good!

Exactly -- good not great!

Good, not Querelle

a milkshake?