The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner ...
A generation after the fall of the Third Reich, the wounded bear of German cinema came roaring out of hibernation. Volker Schlndorff, Wim Wenders and that mystic genius Werner Herzog revitalized the ...
The culminating work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s foreshortened career, Berlin Alexanderplatz had its premiere on West German TV in 1980; it opened here theatrically in 1983, a year after the ...
A movie buff desperately wants to enter a theater to see a Fassbinder film but the doorman will not let him go because he has no ticket. The film is the confrontation between the two that ends with ...
This week, we continue our column’s Pride Month series—where we highlight a movie representing a different letter of the LGBTQ+ acronym—with “G” and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s homoerotic thriller ...
Years after the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s death in 1982, the actor Gottfried John gave a remarkably clearheaded account, both admiring and critical, of what it was like to work with ...
A generation after the fall of the Third Reich, the wounded bear of German cinema came roaring out of hibernation. Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and that mystic genius Werner Herzog revitalized the ...