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 two collaborated on 23 different movies. Rainer Werner Fassbinder made more than 40 features in his 37 years on this planet, 23 of which starred Hanna Schygulla. The two first met in their early ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder named his essential trilogy after the Federal Republic of Germany ("Bundesrepublik Deutschland"). The films examine the post-WWII German economic miracle, or ...

Danish author-director Christian Braad Thomsen reflects on the life of Rainer Werner Fassbinder By Jordan Mintzer The late German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder had one of the most prolific ...

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 narrator’s voice states at the beginning of the film: “What counts is the body of work you bequeath, he believed. It must say something about the era it was made in, or it’s worthless.” From then ...

No German filmmaker was as productive, obsessive, and polarizing as Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), who left the grand stage at the age of only 37. Within just 14 years, he had directed over 40 ...

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 ...

Tasked with creating a new type of family series about the life of the working class, the then-27-year-old Fassbinder did away with the conventional separation between private and professional life, ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980. (Photo By Edoardo Fornaciari / Getty Images) While many of us, stateside, squandered the salad days of our pandemic bingeing Tiger King or revisiting The Sopranos and ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career that ...