This is the first Fassbinder film I've seen, thanks to Francois Ozon, whose adaptation of Fassbinder's play Water Drops on Burning Rocks turned me on to him. After seeing Fox and His Friends, which stars Fassbinder, I most definitely want more. The story here is familiar - 'loser' gets to win big time and discovers how quickly people are willing - and able - to exploit him. It's the way the piece is written and performed that elevates it above predictability; there is a certain tongue-in-cheek q...
This is the first Fassbinder film I've seen, thanks to Francois Ozon, whose adaptation of Fassbinder's play Water Drops on Burning Rocks turned me on to him. After seeing Fox and His Friends, which stars Fassbinder, I most definitely want more. The story here is familiar - 'loser' gets to win big time and discovers how quickly people are willing - and able - to exploit him. It's the way the piece is written and performed that elevates it above predictability; there is a certain tongue-in-cheek q...
Fontane/ / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Exquisite black-and-white photography, gorgeous costumes, stunning landscapes, and actors photographed in mirrors and through laced-curtains are the highlights of this emotionally distant film. It is true, however, that the leading actress has her cathartic scene, but it comes late in the film. Too late to really make one care about the spoiled, rich young lady. But this is Fassbinder, and Fassbinder is always watchable, even at his most pretentious. One joy of this film is the presence of Irm H...
60岁的清洁女工埃米因为避雨，在酒吧认识了10岁的摩洛哥人阿里，两人在众人的怂恿下跳了舞，最后阿里又送埃米回家，两人在埃米的家里相互诉说各自的寂寞，话多夜短，阿里错过了末班车，留宿在埃米家里。第二天醒来，埃米感到不安，阿里安慰她说恐惧会吞噬心灵。一个外籍工人在埃米家留宿的事很快在邻居间传开，人们都议论纷纷，房东的儿子也借交房租的事指责她，埃米不得以谎称阿里是她未婚夫。以后两人交往日密，最后两人真的结了婚。婚后儿女们、邻居们、埃米的同事们几乎所有的人都指责他们，食品店也不再买东西给她，他们唯一的交往是...
Martha/深闺怨妇 / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
No one can deny the poise,finesse and grace with which Fassbinder has directed some of the most charming women characters. This quality is currently being imbibed by some of the most talented filmmakers like Todd Haynes in USA and François Ozon in France. In this particular melodramatic film,Fassbinder is at his best and there is strong belief in the minds of true cinema admirers that "Martha" would surely rank as one of his best films.Initially the setting in Italy helps the film to build its m...
Nora Helmer/ / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I've now seen four film versions of Ibsen's "A Doll's House", and this has to be the best. The first thing that grabs your attention is the art direction/camera-work,which shows us everything through glass, through netting, or reflected through multiple mirrors. This really drives home the unreal hothouse atmosphere, the "Doll's House", in which Nora lives. (As is well known, the story revolves around her comfortable but barren relationship with her proud but possessive husband Torvald).
The ac...
saw Welt am Draht in German TV when it was broadcast first, sometime 1973 or 74 i guess. I was nine or ten years old then, and it left a tremendous impression on me -- World On Wires is definitely one of my Myths of Childhood.
The two or three parts were aired again two or three times, the last time i watched it must have been in the eighties. I recorded them, but, very unfortunately, somehow these tapes got lost in the eddies of reality. It is hard to impossible to find Welt am Draht anywhere ...
This is my most favourite Fassbinder's film to date (I might change my mind in the future as I have seen only 15 films of his.) The movie is represented in the form of a stage play,and this style works very effectively for me. I was stunned when I saw it. It is so raw, yet so moving. It is so minimal, yet so intense. The thing that impressed me the most is the song that Geesche sang repeatedly. For the first time she sang it, I just thought her voice expressed a strong emotion very well. But for...
Jail Bait/ / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Wildwechsel is one of the very good Fassbinder films. It's a family-story with all the restrictions in a typical Bavarian Fassbinder-family. Eva Matthes is the daughter in her puberty who wants to explore sexuality. Harry Baer is the young Romeo. But as always with Fassbinder the people surrounding the two - parents - are enemies of the relationship. I don't know, why this Fassbinder-film is never been shown on TV again and why it never got released on VHS or DVD - lucky people who have the film...
Familienserien sind für ein grosses Publikum gedacht; und daran sollte man auch nichts zu ändern versuchen!" sagt Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Autor und Regisseur der fünfteiligen Familienserie "Acht Stunden sind kein Tag". Um eine "schöne populäre Art" müht er sich und nimmt die Unterhaltungbedürfnisse des Publikums ernst - gerade weil in dieser Familienserie so einiges anders ist als bei früheren Exemplaren dieses Genres. Die Figuren sind nicht Bürger einer oberflächlichen, heilen Welt, sondern M...
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" is a powerful, unflinching view of a love affair gone wrong. Though Petra is not the most sympathetic of characters (note the constant berating of her mute personal assistant throughout the film, which becomes even more intense when Hanna Schygulla's character leaves), one can't help but sympathize with her a little by the end. Not stagy at all, the actors all perform in a believable way, as though they were not actors at all but real people caught in these si...
What kind I say about this movie. well for starters, I thought that this film was okay, not the greatest not worst. I said this cause I thought that the script was great and original, really different and refreshing. Now I wouldn't say that it's the greatest film that I've seeing cause of the acting. The actors that played each role, seems that they played them without emotions, as if they took the life out of them. When the wife laughed or cried, this didn't look real to me for some reason, tha...
If there's one thing that really bothers me about Fassbinder's history is how boggled his film chronology is. For someone who improved at such a consistent rate, it's really annoying in the case of his first 11 "anti-theater" films, that no one seems to know what order they came in.
According to the information on the recent DVD issue of this movie, "Pioneers" is the last of those first 11. Now, I could have sworn that "Beware of a Holy Whore" was Fassbinder's 11th film (which would make more s...
故事讲述一个电影摄制组在拍摄期间陷入困难境地，有两样东西突然不见了，一样是电影器材的丢失，还有就是导演的缺席，但演员和拍摄组成员们依然尽力等待并尝试着改变窘况。后来电影器材和导演都到位了，但剧组的难题......
一个曾参加越战的美国大兵来到德国充当雇佣杀手。其实他本来就是德国人，回德国就是回家。在慕尼黑的黑道上，有着形形色色的怪人，如客厅里摆放巨大游戏机的母亲，命数已到的中年男妓，贩卖毒品和色情刊物的女子，等等
