The acclaimed German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70 this year, on May 31. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Deutsches Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder died as he lived: at many frames per second. The cinephile’s errand of trying to watch everything the German filmmaker made in his lifetime, from all 10 hours of “Berlin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In voiceover, Thomsen talks about meeting Fassbinder at the Berlinale following the screening of “Love Is Colder Than Death,” ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of Lili Marleen (1980) Photo: Museum of Modern Art, 1996 If Godard imagined film as truth at 24 frames a second, for Fassbinder it was one take at a time. Notorious ...

A recent exhibition at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, oriented around the work of writer, director and producer Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provided a unique opportunity to consider the still ...

The style and sensibility of a documentary are inseparable from its substance. The way that filmmakers present information reveals their point of view regarding that information, and even regarding ...

RAINER Werner Fass binder was at the peak of his artistic powers when, on June 10, 1982, he was found dead of a drug overdose in his Munich apartment, a cigarette still between his lips. He was just ...

A fascinating addendum to a still-imposing career, "Fassbinder's Women" -- its title downsized from the more apt if unwieldy original, "Fassbinder Was the Only One for Me: The Willing Victims of ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema movement, and now you can see his final acting role on the big screen in a brand new restoration. Wolf Gremm’s ...

New York offers a cornucopia of essential movie classics, and today another great series gets under way: the first installment of a nearly complete retrospective of the films of Rainer Werner ...

In “Ali,” the woman is an older widow, but unlike Wyman or Moore, she is a dumpy, wrinkled cleaning lady; the younger man is a hunky, decades-younger Moroccan “guest worker” who barely speaks German.

Fassbinder friend and devotee Christian Braad Thomsen takes a Freudian lens to the life and career of the seminal filmmaker. If ever a helmer opened himself to Freudian interpretation, it was Rainer ...