Despair
Despair (1978) was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first english-language feature film. Written by Tom Stoppard and starring Dirk Bogarde, Despair adapts Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of the same name relatively faithfully as… Read more »
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The Tenderness of Wolves
Before Ulli Lommel moved to the United States and began collaborating with Andy Warhol (and segueing into the direct to video market) he directed The Tenderness of Wolves (1973). Lommel’s… Read more »
In A Year With 13 Moons
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In A Year With 13 Moons (1978) tells the story Elvira (Volker Spengler), a trans woman in love with a man who “can never love anyone”, Anton… Read more »
The Niklashausen Journey
As is often observed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s filmography, consisting of forty feature films, makes it difficult to critically appraise all of his films. Many times films are either over looked… Read more »
Der Tod der Maria Malibran
“The cinema of postmodernity suggests a society no longer able to believe fully its received myths (the law of the father, the essential goodness of capitalism, the state, religious authority,… Read more »
