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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A new exhibition at Bonn's Bundeskunsthalle museum is dedicated to the German director who was extremely prolific despite his destructive lifestyle. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's significance as a ...