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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first English language film Despair (1978) is a fascinating entry in his filmography: while it is set in Germany, it is his first film in English, with iconic English actor Dirk Bogar...

“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.” – Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love (1986) Querelle was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, shot only a few months before...

Although with regard to career chronology Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) marks the culmination of Fassbinder’s so-called “BRD (Budesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy”, its narrative in fact positio...

b. May 31, 1945 Bad Wörishofen, Germany. d. June 10, 1982 Munich, Germany. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a filmmaker prolific to the point ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 75 this past May, used the frames of the movie and television screen to create a pervasive sense of entrapment. Claustrophobia permeates the worlds his characters...

The Benjaminian Writings on the Wall and Petzold’s Archaeology of Genre In an early scene in Christian Petzold’s 2015 Phoenix, protagonist Nelly Lenz lies in a hospital bed as her friend Lene Winter lists fami...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder epitomises the figure of the true auteur. Mythologised as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, the legend surrounding Fassbinder – his inhuman prolificness, his tempestuous per...

In a scene from Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul, Emmy, an aging, widowed German national, and Ali, a much younger Moroccan immigrant, sit together at an outdoor café. They are encircled by an arrangement of yel...

b. Werner Herzog b. 5 September, 1942, Munich, Germany Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources With a singular vision continually blurring the fine line between reality an...

A distinguished film editor, Juliane Lorenz was closely associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the final years of his life. She shares some memories of working with this "extraordinary" genius.

b. April 7, 1945, Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany d. April 12, 2010, Hesse, Germany filmography bibliography web resources Thomas Elsaesser once described Werner Schroeter as “the German cinema's g...

Fear Eats the Soul (1973 West Germany 92mins) 35mm Source: Heritage Prod Co: Tango Prod: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler Dir, Scr, Art Dir: Fassbinder Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Thea Eymesz Ca...

An apartment, several women, and much angst make up the elements to one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most alluring and contentious films.

An insightful analysis of the complex interweaving of the personal and the political in one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most emotionally torturous of films.

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival could not have taken place on a more politicised stage. Not only did the festival reflect, as it typically does, the preoccupations of the world in the films selected...

b. 11 September 1968, Nice, France Bertrand Bonello’s movies coalesce into a saga of political disillusionments. His characters are would-be revolutionaries, doomed youths, and indecisive figures paralyzed in ...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

Christoph Hochhäusler’s noirish Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night) premiered on the final day of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, capping a Competition that showcased an unusually hi...

Unapologetically queer writer/director Everett Lewis burst on the film scene in 1990 — one year before the “New Queer Cinema” movement — with his gritty, black and white gay-themed bromantic drama, The Natural ...

This article has been peer reviewed Two lovers walk in silence along a riverbank. They are framed in a long shot, on a path bordered by green grasses. Behind them are misty fields and distant trees. But in the...

In a response to The Independent’s obituary of Serge Daney dated June 1992, Louis Skorecki wrote: “He was the only film critic of real value in France in the last 20 years and one of the only original writers ...

This article has been peer reviewed Sadomasochism has been a largely heteronormatively perceived subject in mainstream cinema. But then, The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014), an unusual relationship s...

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...

Papas Kino (Daddy’s Cinema) was the derogatory term applied to the post-war West German films that reproduced the conventions of movies made in the fascist era. The so-called Heimatfilm (“homeland movie”) in pa...

Reader, sometimes it feels like I have been penning film festival reports for an eternity – and not just because of the distension of durée that we have all felt since the days of lockdown. And yet, if I look b...

b. Robert Louis Fosse, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1927 d. September 23, 1987, Washington, D.C. Although Bob Fosse died at the relatively young age of 60, he had a career in show business extending for almost...

And there he is: perhaps not entirely unlike those famous bespectacled eyes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby (1925) that stare hauntingly down at passers-by from a massive billboard, beh...

One of the legendary figures of the American cinema, the late Monte Hellman (1929 – 2021) is best known for directing Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), considered by many to be the definitive “road movie,” but Hellman’...

Last year, for the first time since 2007, I was unable to attend the Jeonju film festival, as it was in effect canceled, although there was still a program and some local screenings over a few months of many of...

It is tempting to view Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990), Dirk Bogarde’s last film, as an actor’s swan song or as a great director’s meditation on aging. When the film was released, it  was marketed an...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Parviz Jahed Tara Judah Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Dominique Kobler Rainer Knepperges Jan Křipač Jay Kuehner Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Thomas Logoreci Jennif...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Dan Sallitt Jack Sargeant Mark Seman Sarah Scales Andrea Schmidt Howard Schumann Pummy Sharma Christopher Sikich Valerie Soe Mark Spratt Madalina Stefan Brad Stevens Iván Suáre...

I am unaware of any influence, political or artistic, that I could have exercised on the film industry. Bertolt Brecht, 1947 It’s cinema that invented the Nouveau roman; it clearly invented Brechtism (Chapl...

This wide-ranging conversation with Peter Strickland is centred around work, as theme of his films, and his theory and practice of it as filmmaker. The interview was conducted over Skype in June 2019, and then ...

Themes of liminality run through the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival in Prague. The event is held in November each year, as Europe slowly turns to the coldness of winter. Once, when I stated that Prague was in Ea...