Have you seen The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant?
― tanuki, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
WOAW has good Corvette porn amongst the chat.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
I have and enjoyed it
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― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
i always get that mixed up with capra's 'bitter tea of general yen.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
still unavailable on DVD alas!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Going to see WOAW at the New Beverly tonight.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Günther Kaufmann, muse-lover who acted in 14 RWF films
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15945872,00.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 May 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
That whole thing about him falsely confessing to killing the accountant is pretty crazy.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 May 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
aw, r.i.p.
― buzza, Sunday, 13 May 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
wow @ the false confession!!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, didn't know anything about that, whoa.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I forgot to wish RWF a happy birthday ;_;
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Hoberman on the limbo of RWF's American fate:
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-single-antidote-to-thoughts-of-20120628
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 July 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
watching Berlin Alexanderplatz.
fuck, it's good.the alination vs. the pathetic search for (distorded) warmth and tenderness is shown brilliantly by Fassbinder.oh, and the use of lightning and space.oh, and the acting.
― nostormo, Thursday, 15 November 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
great Hoberman piece, thanks for the link
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 15 November 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
The anti-auteurist Pauline Kael, whose reign as America’s most influential film commentator roughly coincided with Fassbinder’s career
oh irony, further compounded by one of his 70s champions being Vincent Canby who was widely derided as a fuddy-duddy a few years later
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 15 November 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
From the piece above:
Kluge appeared to be a more pedantic Godard, Straub seemed a lighter Bresson.
I hope Hoberman has changed his mind on this: Kluge is quite an original, and there is nothing remotely light (Bressonian or not) about Straub-Huillet.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 November 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so RWF starred in a Volker Schlondorff TV film of Brecht's Baal, and we're going to see it.
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-baal-is-back
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
reactions on Baal
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-berlinale-2104-diary-2
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 February 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
the Houellebecq film looks interesting.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 7 February 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
Like to think Baal will get a week's release at the cinemas over here.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/21/filmmaker-as-photographer-still-life-with-rainer-werner-fassbinder/
― 龜, Sunday, 2 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone ordered the catalogue?
http://www.shop-filmmuseum.de/epages/61390111.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61390111/Products/b_308_engl
I am very tempted to do so..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 March 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Fassbinder's Top 10 Pop Musicians
1. Elvis Presley2. Bob Dylan3. Rolling Stones4. Leonard Cohen5. The Platters6. Kraftwerk7. Roxy Music8. The Beatles9. Velvet Underground10. Comedian Harmonists
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
You think we don't know who The Comedian Harmonists are?
― You Never Even POLL Me By My Screenname (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Well I don't!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
Must a German/US thing
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
No, they are not that well known here either. For some reason I was under the impression that you spoke German and might be more familiar with them. There was a movie about them in the late 90s I think.
― You Never Even POLL Me By My Screenname (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
and at least one CD compilation too
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
in case you need to pick up some vegetables at the Merchant of the Four Seasons'
http://filmsociety.myshopify.com/collections/shop/products/fassbinder-limited-edition-tote-bag
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I was going to revive today: I'm on Episode Seven of Berlin Alexanderplatz
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
skip to the coda
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
^smart aleck
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.criterion.com/films/27953-the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
so it's Baal
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/baal
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
The restauration of World on a Wire will be shown in Copenhagen on sunday. It will be my first Fassbender.
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i am surprised! well worth seeing, not "major."
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
it is an anomaly in his cv but man does it look great
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Bitter Tears... getting the Criterion treatment too early next year
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Sooo many Fassbender films, overwhelming to start with. But if I like it, I'll probably check out the major ones as well.
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Frederick, the best way is to dip in. Watch whatever's available. I went on a huge spree ten summers ago as the movies became available on DVD.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
actually i found WoaW to be not much of an anomaly! He is his own genre: SF dreamworld, Genetian dreamworld, miserabilist postwar opiumworld, etc.
And see on a big screen whenever possible, esp w/ Ballhaus as DP.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
one approach (tho we have more stuff available now than when Canby wrote, such as TV work like WoaW):
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/03/movies/film-view-a-beginner-s-baedeker-to-the-genius-of-fassbinder.html
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I'd rate Fear of Fear and Ali higher but, yeah, judicious.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Well, there doesn't seem to be a single region 2 english-language blu-ray of a Fassbinder-film, but there is the 'commemorative collection' dvd-box, which is amazingly cheap (vol 1 is nine films for 12 £ on amazon). Reviews say video quality is variable, but apparantly the most well-known look good. Anyone who has them and can vouch for them?
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
actually i found WoaW to be not much of an anomaly! He is his own genre:
can't really argue w that, and I'm sure you're more of an expert than I. I've only seen Berlin Alexanderplantz, WoaW and Fear Eats the Soul. In general I prefer Herzog.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Werner Schroeter is the only director I'd compare Fassbinder to, working in Germany at that time.
1st stop Fassbinder is Ali, as wonderful as that is it feels like a stop for Year in 13 Moons.. and Bitter Tears... WoaW could work if you don't like him. If you do its not essential but its something you'll want to get around someday.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 October 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Not much to be gained from comparing them, they don't really have anything in common that I can see. (xp)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
WoaW is an anomaly in that it's the only Fassbinder to bore me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Aha. Haven't seen it.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link