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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1) Kamikaze '89
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
In his last film role, legendary director Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays Jansen, an expert cop living in a dystopic future where a mysterious organization known as the The Combine controls all media. After The Combine's headquarters receives several bomb threats, Jansen is tasked with infiltrating the nefarious conglomerate.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery. It is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? Virtual reality. Originally made for German television, the recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of cinema's kinkiest geniuses. It's a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer...
Series
Criterion collection volume 740
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An ordinary man seemingly has a perfect life. He just got married to a beautiful girl, moved to the city, and has a family to look after and love. During his childhood, his parents constantly made him feel rejected and worthless. Those issues slowly creep into his family life, resulting in a nervous breakdown and violence.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "A Year of Thirteen Moons," the camera watches the prostitute Red Zora as she watches Fassbinder in a television interview. The actress is Ingrid Caven, the director's former wife and the woman with whom he claims to have his most important "elective affinity." At once provocative and revealing, the scene illustrates Fassbinder's interest in blurring the boundaries between art and life, between fiction and autobiography....
7) Plays
Author
Series
Publisher
PAJ Publications, a division of Performing Arts Journal, Inc
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
8) Fear of fear
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
A pregnant middle-class housewife, living an ideal, comfortable life, begins to experience moments of uncontrollable undirected fear. Her anxiety grows and becomes more frequent. After giving birth, she turns to drugs and alcohol, but nothing seems to alleviate her tempestuous nerves.
10) Rio das Mortes
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Two friends decide to leave Germany in search of a treasure they believe to be hidden in the Rio das Mortes area of Peru. However, the fiance of one of the friends threatens to shoot them both if they embark on this childish adventure."--Container.
Publisher
Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Spanish coastal hotel, the cast and crew of a film wait for the director, the star and the production money. When the director finally arrives he makes life miserable for everyone. The group is left to petty bickering, attempts at amusement and desperate contacts to make it through the filming of the movie.
Publisher
Wellspring Media, inc
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first of a trilogy about women in post-World War II Germany, The marriage of Maria Braun, turns the melodramatic story of the titular heroine's climb up the economic ladder into a historical allegory about both the post-war German "economic miracle" and 1970s West Germany. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria's new husband is shipped off to the Russian front before the marriage is consummated. As she struggles...
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2002, p1970
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's homage to American gangster movies. Ricky, i professional killer, is hired by 3 Munich policemen upon his return to Germany from America. He visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, all the while carrying out his kills without hesitation of emotion. Upon completion of all his assignments, Ricky finds himself in a shoot-out with the cops who hired him.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fifteen-hour Dramas, based on Alfred Dḇlin's novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made over thirty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic is a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.
Publisher
Fantoma
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Deutsch
Description
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden: "When the object of his affection off-handedly commented, 'too bad you're not a girl,' Erwin disappeared to Casablanca and returned as Elvira. Now, adrift and alone amid the maze of streets of Frankfurt, Elvira revisits the people and places of his past"--Container.
Martha: "When her domineering father collapses of a heart attack during their vacation in Rome, virginal spinster Martha encounters the man of her dreams,...
19) Baal
Series
Criterion collection volume 914
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 203-206
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The 3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.
