Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Museum of Modern Art S.) - Softcover

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9780870701092: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Museum of Modern Art S.)

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ISBN 10: 0870701096 ISBN 13: 9780870701092

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 2002

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Of all the filmmakers who created a new international cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, the young German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most prolific and arguably the most gifted. In more than 40 films, from the 1969 neogangster "Love is Colder than Death", to the 1980 14-part epic Berlin "Alexanderplatz" and such late masterpieces as "The Marriage of Maria Braun", he assembled a body of work remarkable in its range and in its sustained focus. In this collection of writings by and about Fassbinder, revealing statements by the artist himself are made available in English. Film historian Thomas Elsaesser provides a critical framework and Georgia Brown, film critic for "New York City's Village Voice" contributes a personal look at the paradoxes of Fassbinder's style. Frankfurt film critic Wolfram Schutte examines Fassbinder's place within postwar German film history, with a look at the intricacies of funding and cultural politics that shaped the work.

The volume also contains a complete illustrated filmography and personal recollections by friends and colleagues, including Fassbinder's editor, Juliane Lorenz, the actresses Hanna Schygulla and Jeanne Moreau, and fellow directors Wim Wenders and Volker Schlondorff. Laurence Kardish is the organizer of a Fassbinder film retrospective which opens at the Museum of Modern Art in January 1997.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder is perhaps the most arresting and controversial film director of all time. In a career that lasted only 16 years, ending abruptly when he died of a drug overdose at age 36, Fassbinder wrote and directed 34 films and two lengthy television miniseries. He was also a prolific playwright and actor in other people's films. Comprehensive assessments are hard to come by, but this book, written by one of Fassbinder's friends, does an admirable job of covering the prolific director's career and analyzing all of his films, including the masterworks Effie Briest, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola, Veronika Voss, and Berlin-Alexanderplatz. The book ends with an intriguing reassessment of Fassbinder's final movie, Querelle.

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