Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
German Film Festival 2009 This is my fourth year attending the German Film Festival at London’s Curzon Soho. This year I was joined by a German friend (my Brother’s girlfriend Andrea). She picked the films, though they were both films that I would likely have seen if I’d gone on my own. Neither of these films has been passed by the BBFC as yet. Effi Briest Dir: Hermine Huntgeburth...
Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The theme song for this blog entry is ANALYSE by Subeena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSfBPtksuQ Analysis of my own list for BEYOND THE CANON's blog: A.COUNTRIES: 1.ARGENTINA Lo Nuestro no Funciona (2003) .. Iván Wolovik & Nicolás Álvarez 2.BURKINA FASO Sarraounia (1986) .. Med Hondo 3.CANADA Tu as crié: Let me go (1997) .. Anne Claire Poirier 4.CZECHOSLOVAKIA A Case...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Editors who worked with renowned film directors such as Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder are giving a series of lectures on that speciality in the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, reported sources from this teaching centre, which this year has an enrolment of 117 students from 28 countries.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
German director Werner Herzog has been making movies for 40 years, and at this point in his career, the legend very nearly eclipses the man. Herzog eating his shoe on a bet with Errol Morris, rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from an overturned car, and continuing an on-air interview after getting shot with an air rifle (“It was not a significant bullet”)—these are just some of the real-life...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The extras-rich Criterion Collection version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987) is perfectly timed to seize the moment. The subject of the film is dividing lines—between fallible humans and the guardian angels who look after them, the living and the dead, the past and the present, real locations and movie sets, and so on. [...]
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The complete critical writings of film critic Manny Farber collected in one volume. Film criticism - Manny Farber - Arts - movie - Literature
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
West Germany Feature Film Original Title: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Heinrich Zille Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus Composer: Peer Raben Cast: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John, Armin Meier, Matthias Fuchs When a factory worker kills the head of...
365 Gay News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a polemic filmmaker associated with the New German Cinema movement.
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
An atrocity of cinema from Germany's Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is only now being distributed in cinemas in the US. Christopher Hitchens reviewed it in August at Vanity Fair: Unlike earlier depictions of the same events by German directors such as Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Uli Edel’s film interrogates and ultimately indicts (and convicts) the West German [...]
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
-- Big welcome: Gustavo Dudamel made his debut Saturday as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new music director to a packed Hollywood Bowl crowd. -- Brain trust: LACMA's Michael Govan has joined an advisory panel for the long-planned Eli and Edythe...
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
A couple of stories from Der Spiegel - not unrelated. First off: Twenty-four years ago, the curtain never quite raised on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder play "Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod." The Jewish community, flexing its muscles for...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Twenty-four years ago, the curtain never quite raised on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod. The Jewish community, flexing its muscles for one of the first times since World War II, blasted the piece for being anti-Semitic." This week the piece began its debut run in Germany's Rohr Valley. "And, over two decades later, feelings about the play among Germany's...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Despite protests from Jewish groups, the show did go on at last for a Fassbinder play that some had labeled anti-Semitic. The public gave the Germany premiere a warm reception.
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