Check out this strangely hypnotic stream-of-thought documentary essay, “Room 666,” made by Wim Wenders at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The 44-minute film features thoughts on cinema from an ...

Viola Shafik's documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. By THR Staff MONTREAL — Setting out to introduce ...

Saying that Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a prolific filmmaker is quite the understatement. The man’s frenetic filmmaking pace allowed him to leave behind over forty films in his repertoire, all in the ...

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 ...

German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was born seventy years ago this May. To honor the anniversary, a number of events have been held in Berlin. An exhibition on display at the Martin ...

New York offers a cornucopia of essential movie classics, and today another great series gets under way: the first installment of a nearly complete retrospective of the films of Rainer Werner ...

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 ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of Lili Marleen (1980) Photo: Museum of Modern Art, 1996 If Godard imagined film as truth at 24 frames a second, for Fassbinder it was one take at a time. Notorious ...

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 ...

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 ...

When observing its material from something of a remove, it could easily be argued that Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is a bit drier than its amazing subject deserves. While I don’t wish to spend ...