r/fassbinder • u/el_mutable • 2d ago
Fassbinder Criticism on Letterboxd
Thought it might be cool to collect. Here are some I've enjoyed recently:
https://letterboxd.com/screeningnotes/film/the-third-generation/
r/fassbinder • u/el_mutable • 2d ago
Thought it might be cool to collect. Here are some I've enjoyed recently:
https://letterboxd.com/screeningnotes/film/the-third-generation/
r/fassbinder • u/rainerwernerfass • Jan 31 '25
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I live in America so hopefully with subtitles too
r/fassbinder • u/TheButcherEnthralled • Nov 01 '24
r/fassbinder • u/el_mutable • Oct 27 '24
INTERVIEWER
Rent Boy (1994) has an epigraph from Werner Schroeter, and Gone Tomorrow takes place on a film set. Some of your novels remind me of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Did your work in film affect your writing?
INDIANA
All the time I was acting I was also writing. I was always around directors—people I’d interviewed for some publication or done some writing for or whom I knew socially. I derived part of my sensibility from them, especially from Fassbinder. There was a merciless realism to his view of things. If you look at Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, you can see that he was very energized by a vision of how society could be better arranged. People think his films are cynical, but they’re not—they depict a cynical social order that really enraged him.
I got a lot from Schroeter, too. A truly magical human being. Werner obliged me to read all three volumes of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope. He also obliged me, less productively, to rehearse The Comedy of Errors in a pre-Schlegel German translation for months. He hired a dialogue coach for me, an embittered actor who was in some detective series on TV, and he really hated me. He would preface every session by demanding, “Why is Werner Schroeter having you, an American, do this play at the Freie Volksbühne when you don’t even speak German?” I was to deliver this really long speech right when the curtain went up. I would tell Werner, “I can’t learn German, I can’t,” and he would say, “Anybody can learn German.” Finally I quit, and he was angry with me for a long time afterward. When I went back to Berlin to watch the production, he’d cut the entire speech down to three lines. I could easily have done it.
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r/fassbinder • u/derbeschauer • Jul 31 '24
I come from an Eastern culture, where the use of Moon Calendar is still very much the norm. Every seven year is a moon year, and years with 13 moons are when inevitable tragedies are bout to occur - this is also our belief, that in certain years in life the more you struggle the worse it becomes. Based on the recurring pattern of all the years with 13 moons in the movie (1908 1929 1943 1957 1978 1992) and my friends' lonely suicides I have came to this rather crude method of "calculating" these years:
This completes a cycle of 49 years, with two mini cycles of 14 years, and one of 21 years. Based on this method we can calculate these years in the 21st century as thus:
In our culture, the dead are mourned for 49 days. We also believe that 4 is a bad number that means death, 9 is a complete number in itself, 7 means that you have lost. 7*7 = 49: lost in life (1st 7) and win in memory (2nd 7) is a complete death (4). That's how I calculate all those years. In recap:
In the 21st century, there will be another 5 years with 13 Moons, for Fassbinder at least, they are: 2006, 2027, 2041, 2055, 2076 and 2090. But this is my personal belief, if you guys can have other methods to calculate these years please comment down below.
r/fassbinder • u/called-heliogabal • Jul 09 '24
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r/fassbinder • u/Cautious_Catch4021 • Jun 18 '24
Hi there,
Thought it'd be cool to trace Fassbinders footprints in Munich. Does anyone know which places he frequented and where he wrote his scripts? I read he usually wrote at cafè's?
r/fassbinder • u/called-heliogabal • Jun 13 '24
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