“What Fassbinder’s films show is how difficult it is to change the world and how difficult it is to live in it.… Even fleeting moments of tenderness can seem impossible in an evil world….” 📽️ 🇩🇪 🎞️ #film #movies #cinema #NewGermanCinema #CineMastodon #RainerWernerFassbinder
https://www.anothergaze.com/nothing-defeats-fassbinder-beyond-fragments/
I've been watching THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (#Fassbinder, 1972).
So good.
It's essentially, at least thus far, like a one-room play, all claustrophobic, stifling, and intense. Wonderfully acted and shot (brilliant staging and framing), and an intense character study.
A dervish of creative activity, in-between making films for the cinema Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a genius at extracting funding from West Germany’s various regional public broadcasting stations. Not only did this result in a bushel of telefilms, but extraordinary ventures into the serial form, including the two-part World on a Wire, and the five episodes of Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day. Even when making work for small-screen broadcast, Fassbinder’s vision was never less than capaciously cinematic—so leave the boob tube at home and see the only real “Must See TV” writ large.
A incomparable cinematic force, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, born on this day in 1945.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Beieren, 31 mei '45 – München, 10 juni '82.
"Es ist besser, neue Fehler zu machen, als die alten bis zur allgemeinen Bewusstlosigkeit zu konstituieren."
Yaak Karsunke, uit 'Katzelmacher'
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