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Rainer Werner Fassbinder 

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer / Editor / Actor / Production Designer / Cinematographer
1945 - 1982 
Born May 31, Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany
Key Production Country: Germany 
Key Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Psychological Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films, Crime Drama
Key Collaborators: Peer Raben (Composer/Producer), Irm Hermann (Character Player), Hanna Schygulla (Leading Character Player), Kurt Raab (Production Designer/Screenwriter), Ingrid Caven (Character Player), Michael Ballhaus (Cinematographer), Thea Eymesz (Editor), Karl Scheydt (Character Player), Dietrich Lohmann (Cinematographer), Julianne Lorenz (Editor)
Highly Recommended: The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends (1975), In a Year with 13 Moons (1978), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Recommended: Love is Colder Than Death (1969), Gods of the Plague (1969), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973), I Only Want You to Love Me [TV] (1976), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), Lola (1981), Veronika Voss (1982)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ The Fassbinder Foundation ] [ Bright Lights Film Journal Feature ] [ Wikipedia ] [ The Film Journal Article (2006) ] [ New German Cinema ] [ Biography/Filmography ] [ GreenCine Article (2007) ]
Books: [ Fassbinder's Germany ] [ Rainer Werner Fassbinder ] [ The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes ] [ Fassbinder: Life and Work of a Provocative Genius ] [ Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Plays ] [ Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder ] [ Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film As Private and Public Art ] [  Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), In a Year with 13 Moons (1978), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Veronika Voss (1982)
 
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)Veronika Voss (1982)
 
     
  "Fassbinder's most distinguishing trait within the tradition of "counter-cinema," aside from his reputation for rendering fragments of the new left ideology of the 1960s on film, was his modification of the conventions of political cinema initiated in the 1920s and subsequent tailoring of these conventions to modern conditions of Hollywood cinema. He did this to a greater degree than Godard, who is credited with using these principles as content for filmic essays on narrative." - John O'Kane (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)  
     
  "The bare fact is enough: Fassbinder died well short of forty, the maker of at least half a dozen extraordinary pictures: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant still has no equal in its simultaneous delight in "style" while pouring acid over the image; Beware of a Holy Whore, Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and  Lola (at least) are outstanding examples of how contemporary history can be focused on the screen in short, tough tales." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "One of the finest directors working in the '70s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder ranged widely through genre and style, but consistent through his prolific career (he made over 40 films in 13 years) was an ironic approach towards often melodramatic subjects, and an abiding interest in the despair underlying the material affluence and bourgeois moral conformism of postwar German society." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)  
     
  "Violence, psychosis, repression, and anxiety fill the work of Fassbinder. He is one of the premier European directors to emerge in the last decade." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)  
     
  "The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film." - Rainer Werner Fassbinder  
     
 

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