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 ...

The international film world sees him as Germany's most significant filmmaker after World War II. Now, a extensive new photo book looks at Rainer Werner Fassbinder's unique career and shows how his ...

From the August, 1983 issue of High Times comes Mike Wilmington’s tribute to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), the darling of the film festivals; a director of genius who died of a ...

The rediscovery of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s eruptively inventive two-part, three-and-a-half-hour science-fiction film “World on a Wire,” made for German television in 1973 (it was shown at MOMA last ...

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 ...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the juicy details for the first part of an epic retrospective of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Romantic Anarchist (Part 1) will run May 16 – June 1, part ...

Long before such filmmakers as Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes began shifting between theatrical features and work made for television, Germany’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder was crafting ...

Broadcast on German TV in the early 70s but never before released in the U.S., Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s five-part miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day arrives like a gift from the movie gods. Not ...

If, for whatever reason, some prophetic stranger were to approach me at this very moment and tell me I was about to be plucked from my spot upon this futon and flown to a desert island with nothing ...

It’s hard to recommend a single film from a widely respected director’s filmography, especially when the director in question is Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The German multi-hyphenated talent died in ...

More than 20 years after adapting a Rainer Werner Fassbinder play called “Waters Drops on Burning Rocks” into a movie, François Ozon has made this gender-flipped adaptation of one of Fassbinder’s ...