Beware of a Holy Whore

"...Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lou Castel, Werner..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Salmonberries

"...who is best known for her title role in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss). Roswitha is an East German..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Danke Schön, Homo Arigato!

This month's Homo Arigato! speaks the language of German love and lust

"...feature wanders a world of women, wigs, and wonderment: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant...."

Jan. 27, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Lawrence Everett Forbes

Film Fast, Die Young

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Sept. 4, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Despair

A Fassbinder masterpiece of resignation and moral detachment

"...from a novel by Vladimir Nabokov and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the great provocateur/humanist of the New German..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Scanlines

"...D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; with Volker Spengler,Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth..."

June 23, 1995 Arts Feature

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Fassbinder's grimy Berliner sensibility coats the bare bones of Sirk's original tale in a slick sheen of weary cynicism and pits true love against societal mores in a battle to the bitter end.

"...D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; with Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Fall

"...Deadly, Robert Aldrich Dec. 5 (Hogg Aud.) Satan's Brew, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Spring Jan. 16 In a Year of..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Screens Feature

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...Havre) the signature influences of silent comedians, Robert Bresson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sam Fuller, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, and..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Richard Linklater's Diamonds in the Rough

The legendary Austin filmmaker provides a guided tour through three years of a formative decade

"...is represented by one of the last films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Veronika Voss. Linklater describes it as "one..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Tarnished Angels

"...barnstorming airplane culture. Says one of Sirk’s biggest fans, Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “Sirk looks at these corpses with such..."

May 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

"...Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most powerful and..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...I've refrained from lauding the Austin Film Society's Rainer Werner Fassbinder series at the Alamo because, quite honestly,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Geek Out!

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour epic at long last (and longer), in a Criterion Collection box to end all Criterion boxes

"...Riding its customary wave of controversy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic 15-hour adaptation of Alfred Döblin's Berlin..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Latest in Paper

Based loosely – very loosely – on the Seventies German film actress and cabaret singer of the same name, Ingrid Caven's is a world psychologically damaged, and perpetually haunted, by the horrors of the 20th century

"..."Minister"; where Andy Warhol, "the old, powered vampire," and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "the most famous and troublesome moviemaker in..."

July 9, 2004 Books Review by Dominic Luxford

'Heaven' Sent

Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.

"...placing the film in a contemporary setting (German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder did as much with his All That..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Sirkus Maximus

Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years.

"...society. A great fan of Sirk's work, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder enthusiastically acknowledged his predecessor's influence on his..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pigs, Pimps, and Pornographers

A look at this prolific, political Japanese filmmaker

"...match the likes of a John Ford or a Fassbinder, but in his 18 films, Imamura has faithfully portrayed..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Salvatore Botti

DVDanger: Brawl in Cell Block 99

Vince Vaughn and Udo Kier on being the heavy

"...favorite of radical directors like Lars von Trier and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Few living actors convey bizarre malice like..."

Oct. 15, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Xmas Bazaars, Xmas Movies, Xbox Parties, and More Recommended Events

Get your weekdays planned out

"...screening is simply a time for you to enjoy Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fever dream final film. Set in the..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

ArmadilloCon, Art, a Hot Sauce Hootenanny, and More Recommended Events

Get out and get spicy this weekend

"...cinema queerte will find much to chew on with Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film. Gay sailors, big penis statues,..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder passed young at 37, and this film..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Peggy Chiao Enters A City of Sadness

UT alum returns for rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's greatest

"...Tsai Ming-liang is more indebted to Francois Truffaut and Rainer Werner Fassbinder than Hou Hsian-hsien. In The Hole, I..."

Sept. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Julian DeBerry

Sink Into Sirk This May

Alamo screens "Majestic Tears: The Melodramas of Douglas Sirk"

"...Heaven Allows made for very fertile soil, inspiring both Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes to run with their..."

May 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Getting Crazy

A whirlwind tour of Arkush's 1983 feature

"...Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss were the first two films..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Louis Black

The Mighty Finn

AFS Essential Cinema presents the Chilly Humorist of Finland: Aki Kaurismäki

"...in his work a soupçon of Robert Bresson and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, as well as a few silent comedians..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Third Generation, guests visiting a house..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Flesh & Blood

The Drafthouse thinks you could do with a little more Udo. That's why they're bringing in German legend Udo Kier for the weekend.

"...Since then Kier has worked with everyone from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (whom he met in Germany when the..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

A new Vietnam Film Series, a Cine Las Americas call for entries, aGLIFF's "Secret Cinema," and a fond farewell to AFS film programmer Salvatore Botti.

"...filmgoing public to everyone from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Rainer Werner Fassbinder via the AFS' varied and always fascinating..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Out and About

13th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival

"...French filmmaker François Ozon tips his hat to Rainer Werner Fassbinder with a film version of that late..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

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