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 ...

Years after the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s death in 1982, the actor Gottfried John gave a remarkably clearheaded account, both admiring and critical, of what it was like to work with ...

NEW YORK — Desire and power, the New York performance scene, Hindu goddess Chinnamasta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” are all mixed into Dean Moss’ latest ...

Actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, accepted the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German ...

German actress Hanna Schygulla attends during the award ceremony of the "Dresden Prize" at the Semperoper in Dresden. German actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with ...

A generation after the fall of the Third Reich, the wounded bear of German cinema came roaring out of hibernation. Volker Schlndorff, Wim Wenders and that mystic genius Werner Herzog revitalized the ...

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 ...

Ian Penman’s study of the German filmmaker’s work elucidates his “cocaine communism”—an aesthetics and politics of revolution and pleasure. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980. (Photo By Edoardo Fornaciari ...