Lola" (1981) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Lola - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Nov. 10, 2012

Lola - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981)

Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Why does Herr R run amok?) (1970) Movies

Posted by ths01 at May 6, 2009

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler.

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Lili Marleen - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Feb. 23, 2014

Lili Marleen - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981)

In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. One day 'Willie' helps 'Robert' but has to stay in Germany. As Willie starts to sing the song 'Lili Marleen' she becomes very famous and every soldier hears that song via radio at 8 pm.

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Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Aug. 14, 2011

Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970)

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

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Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Nov. 3, 2013

Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1970)

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

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Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte / Beware of a Holy Whore - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1971) Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Aug. 17, 2013

Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte / Beware of a Holy Whore - by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1971)

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best out of the situation.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980) Movies

Posted by cinefile at June 17, 2010

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder’s immersive epic, restored in 2006 and now available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.

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Querelle (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

Posted by veteandy at April 24, 2009

A Film about Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest".

Querelle was Fassbinder's final film. It's a stunningly gorgeous film, a tale of a beautiful, proud and hard-as-nails loner, the sailor Querelle (Brad Davis), whose commanding officer, Lieutenant Seblon (Franco Nero), is obsessed with him. Querelle turns on his drug-smuggling partner and murders him.

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Die Ehe der Maria Braun [The Marriage of Maria Brau] (1979) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder Movies

Posted by veteandy at April 25, 2009

Essential Fassbinder

One of Fassbinder's crowning achievements, this an exploration of the complexities and contradictions of postwar Germany as embodied in a trio of unforgettable women. A female survivor of World War II Germany incorporates seduction and self-preservation in order to stay alive.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - A Collection of Documentaries (1978 to 2003) Movies

Posted by veteandy at April 29, 2009

Essential Documentaries about Rainer Werner Fassbinder

4 Documentaries about the film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, plus interviews with Juliane Lorenz (Fassbinder's editor), Xaver Schwarzenberger (Fassbinder's cinematographer), and Stars and staff of his films. 1) Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt (1993); 2) Lebenslaufe [Live Stories: A Conversation with R. W. Fassbinder] (1978); 3) Editing with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2003); 4) The Chance of a Life Time (2003).

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