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 »
Tag: Volker Spengler
Chinesisches Roulette
Chinesisches Roulette (1976) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s macabre marriage farce. It’s a film of cold spaces occupied by unloving individuals caught in a series of maneuvers attempting to gain the… 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 »
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue
Produced between 1979 and 1980, Berlin Alexanderplatz is Fassbinder’s masterpiece, and an epic in scope beyond the work of any other film in his prolific career. Shot by Xavier Schwarzenberger… Read more »
