With all due respect to Stanley Kubrick’s excellent “Lolita,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language version of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Despair” remains the greatest big-screen Nabokov ...

In his 1966 book From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer posited that such early German cinema masterpieces as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis and Nosferatu, with their themes of ...

This absolutely topnotch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question but Fassbinders meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death ...

A recent exhibition at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, oriented around the work of writer, director and producer Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provided a unique opportunity to consider the still ...

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 ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (“Despair,” “The Marriage of Maria Braun”) directed more than 40 features and substantial TV projects between the age of 24 and his death at 37. So it’s not surprising that ...

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 ...

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 ...