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 ...

Fassbinder friend and devotee Christian Braad Thomsen takes a Freudian lens to the life and career of the seminal filmmaker. If ever a helmer opened himself to Freudian interpretation, it was Rainer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years after adapting a Rainer Werner Fassbinder play called “Waters Drops on Burning Rocks” into a movie, François ...

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 ...

RAINER Werner Fass binder was at the peak of his artistic powers when, on June 10, 1982, he was found dead of a drug overdose in his Munich apartment, a cigarette still between his lips. He was just ...

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 ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- The Berlin International Film Festival will screen all 15-plus hours of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz," based on the novel by Alfred Doeblin, to ...

A fascinating addendum to a still-imposing career, "Fassbinder's Women" -- its title downsized from the more apt if unwieldy original, "Fassbinder Was the Only One for Me: The Willing Victims of ...

There are movies that make news and movies that are news. World on a Wire is one of the latter. Suddenly: a virtually unknown, newly restored, two-part tele-film directed by long-gone wunderkind R.W.

In “Ali,” the woman is an older widow, but unlike Wyman or Moore, she is a dumpy, wrinkled cleaning lady; the younger man is a hunky, decades-younger Moroccan “guest worker” who barely speaks German.

Germany’s deutschfilm and France’s Rezo will co-produce “Rainer” on the life of the legendary director. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Fassbinder shot 44 films in just 16 years before dying ...

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 ...