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3 reviews
Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber

Fox Lorber, 2003

A Gem
This is one of Fassbinder's most finely crafted films. The illness of the protagonist (Margit Carstenson) leads to just as many questions about the people around her as it does to herself. Thus, this is a statement about society at large and not just a personal portrait. Fassbinder, I have read, was greatly fascinated with Freudian psychology - and some of this passion we can see in the structure ...

The Merchant of Four Seasons [VHS]

7 reviews
Hark Bohm, Ingrid Caven

Fox Lorber, 2002

Rainer Werner Fassbinder--Remember the Man and his Films
This could be a good introduction to the terse, emotionally-layered films of Fassbinder, who is becoming recognized as having had a great impact during his short 37 years (deceased in 1982). His films focus on human themes that transcend era or epoch. Here we find a fruit-peddler, who, although seemingly doomed in his early forays into the world and cursed by his mother, continues to work to ...

Shadow of Angels [VHS]
Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Water Bearer Films, 1998

Nea: Young Emmanuelle (Dub) [VHS]

3 reviews
Sami Frey, Ann Zacharias

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

A Very SICK Film!
This is not your typical silly little soft-core erotic cinema, this gets into a shockingly heavy "fake rape" subplot that is extremely unexpected. Not to mention the 16 year old girl's father telling her to lie about the rape so his family won't go through scandal. Yep your typical American popcorn flick.

Gods of the Plague [VHS]

1 review
Harry Baer, Ingrid Caven

Xenon, 1993

Visually stunning, dramatically understated film noir
Gods of the Plague (released in 1970) is a powerful, visually stunning, yet dramatically understated film noir - and pure Fassbinder; Wellspring's DVD transfer is detailed and crisp. Fassbinder himself ranked this film fifth on the list he made, shortly before he died, of "The Top 10 of My Own Films." Not only does he pay homage to some of the masterpieces of this genre which he loved (from ...

Satan's Brew [VHS]

5 reviews
Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen

Fox Lorber, 2003

Satan's brew
One of the funniest, darkest movies about the sort of self-serving, pretentious rock-star types you will ever see. Kurt Raab gives an incredible performance as the dillusional poet who fancies himself the latter-day Stefan George after he writes a poem that matches George's identically and finds out from his wife and lover. He sculpts himself in the mold of George to the point of even trying ...

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven [VHS]

5 reviews
Peter Bollag, Karlheinz Böhm

Fox Lorber, 2003

Compassionate study of a woman, and a scathing social satire
Like all of Fassbinder's best films, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975) is many things at once. It is simultaneously a deeply compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and a scathing satire of her exploitation by the media and political factions, as she tries to clear the name of her dead husband, branded "the factory murderer." It is emotionally rich but intellectually dense, filled with ...

Satan's Brew [VHS]

5 reviews
Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen

Fox Lorber, 1997

Satan's brew
One of the funniest, darkest movies about the sort of self-serving, pretentious rock-star types you will ever see. Kurt Raab gives an incredible performance as the dillusional poet who fancies himself the latter-day Stefan George after he writes a poem that matches George's identically and finds out from his wife and lover. He sculpts himself in the mold of George to the point of even trying ...

Gods of the Plague [VHS]

1 review
Harry Baer, Ingrid Caven

Fox Lorber, 2003

Visually stunning, dramatically understated film noir
Gods of the Plague (released in 1970) is a powerful, visually stunning, yet dramatically understated film noir - and pure Fassbinder; Wellspring's DVD transfer is detailed and crisp. Fassbinder himself ranked this film fifth on the list he made, shortly before he died, of "The Top 10 of My Own Films." Not only does he pay homage to some of the masterpieces of this genre which he loved (from ...

Merchant of Four Seasons [VHS]

7 reviews
Hark Bohm, Ingrid Caven

New Yorker Films Video, 1999

Rainer Werner Fassbinder--Remember the Man and his Films
This could be a good introduction to the terse, emotionally-layered films of Fassbinder, who is becoming recognized as having had a great impact during his short 37 years (deceased in 1982). His films focus on human themes that transcend era or epoch. Here we find a fruit-peddler, who, although seemingly doomed in his early forays into the world and cursed by his mother, continues to work to ...

The American Soldier - Trained to be the Best [VHS]

6 reviews
Marius Aicher, Hark Bohm

Fox Lorber, 2002

Fassbinder's film noir
If you are not wild about Fassbinder's early films, you will still love 'the American Soldier'. The look of the film is taken straight from the great film noir tradition - brilliant use of light and shadows. The plot of the movie, as in Godard, is not of the greatest importance - and you can miss something and still pick up where you left off. One of the most significant features of the film is ...

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? [VHS]

10 reviews
Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab

New Yorker Video, 1998

Don't you feel like Herr R sometimes?
I just finished watching Funny Ha Ha, a cinema verite, "mumblecore" film, and I thought of this film. This film is done is the same realistic style as that one, except this is much darker, brooding, tense, and funny. I adore Fassbinder, and I've seen this film a few times. It has a really creepy power to it, a tension that you can't really explain. The takes are very long (as opposed to Funny ...

Tenderness of the Wolves [VHS]

9 reviews
Barbara Bertram, Margit Carstensen

Starz / Anchor Bay, 1999

Part art film, part sexual-social docudrama, excellent
Kurt Raab, as Fritz Haarmann, brings sympathy and charm to an otherwise depraved and wretched human being. In Raab's performance we recognize not only the dark side of life and 'humanity,' we stare eyeball to meatball in that inescapable and horrible truth behind every human's existence; that fundamentally we are flesh eaters made of the same blood, meat and guts as all the other species who rip ...

The American Soldier [VHS]

6 reviews
Marius Aicher, Hark Bohm

New Yorker Films Video, 1999

Fassbinder's film noir
If you are not wild about Fassbinder's early films, you will still love 'the American Soldier'. The look of the film is taken straight from the great film noir tradition - brilliant use of light and shadows. The plot of the movie, as in Godard, is not of the greatest importance - and you can miss something and still pick up where you left off. One of the most significant features of the film is ...

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven [VHS]

5 reviews
Peter Bollag, Karlheinz Böhm

New Yorker Video, 1998

Compassionate study of a woman, and a scathing social satire
Like all of Fassbinder's best films, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975) is many things at once. It is simultaneously a deeply compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and a scathing satire of her exploitation by the media and political factions, as she tries to clear the name of her dead husband, branded "the factory murderer." It is emotionally rich but intellectually dense, filled with ...

Merchant of Four Seasons (Sub) [VHS]

7 reviews
Hark Bohm, Ingrid Caven

New Yorker Video, 1998

Rainer Werner Fassbinder--Remember the Man and his Films
This could be a good introduction to the terse, emotionally-layered films of Fassbinder, who is becoming recognized as having had a great impact during his short 37 years (deceased in 1982). His films focus on human themes that transcend era or epoch. Here we find a fruit-peddler, who, although seemingly doomed in his early forays into the world and cursed by his mother, continues to work to ...

The Niklashausen Journey [VHS]

2 reviews
Peter Berling, Margit Carstensen

Fox Lorber, 2002

Ambitious but uneven early Fassbinder film
In The Nicklashausen Journey, Fassbinder co-writes and co-directs with Michael Fengler an avant-garde film about Hans Boehm, an historical shepherd who in 1476 claimed that the Virgin Mary called him to foment a holy war against the "decadent" church and upper classes. To compare the political and sexual turmoil of feudal Germany with that of the modern world, Fassbinder stridently mixes medieval ...

Rio Das Mortes (Sub) [VHS]

3 reviews
Marius Aicher, Hanna Axmann-Rezzori

Fox Lorber, 2002

What's The Deal?
Almost every review I have read of this film treats it as lesser Fassbinder but I think its a wonderful little movie. Its just so much fun. I found the the film to be a refreshing breath of fresh air because there is a heavy sense of gloom over many of the themes in RWF's films (granted i love this aspect about them - let it be said he is my favorite director ever)...But in this film...Hanna ...

American Soldier (Sub) [VHS]

6 reviews
Marius Aicher, Hark Bohm

New Yorker Video, 1998

Fassbinder's film noir
If you are not wild about Fassbinder's early films, you will still love 'the American Soldier'. The look of the film is taken straight from the great film noir tradition - brilliant use of light and shadows. The plot of the movie, as in Godard, is not of the greatest importance - and you can miss something and still pick up where you left off. One of the most significant features of the film is ...

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