A recent exhibition at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, oriented around the work of writer, director and producer Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provided a unique opportunity to consider the still ...

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 ...

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 ...

The style and sensibility of a documentary are inseparable from its substance. The way that filmmakers present information reveals their point of view regarding that information, and even regarding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.