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1.Lola [1981] starring: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs, Helga Feddersen directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder July 24, 1995
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Typical of the director's later works, Lola is a giddy fusion of the filmmaker's key cinematic inspirations and his then political concerns. It was a style and personal ideology that Fassbinder had been building up to with films like In a Year with 13 Moons and Despair, showing the director's continuing attempts to subvert the conventions of the melodrama by way of narrative experimentation & visual stylisation... a cinematic device that would be further tinkered with in his final films, the bitter Veronika Voss and the deeply surreal Querelle. Whereas his early films, such as Fear Eats the Soul and The Merchant of Four Seasons, had developed an astute sense of character, dislocated from a reality that was, in someway, categorically our ... Read More:

2.Veronika Voss [1981] starring: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Doris Schade directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder May 06, 1998
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One of Fassbinder's final films, Veronika Voss exists in the same cinematic world as the films that would bookend it's creation, with the story drawing parallels both thematically and subtextually with part two of the BRD trilogy, Lola, whilst employing the same use of stylised, theatrical mise-en-scene featured in his final film proper, Querelle. As a result of this, Veronkia Voss comes across as a much stranger film than it actually is, seeming like a post-modernist melange of social melodrama with elements of 40's cinematic pastiche, with Fassbinder and his cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger capturing the action in glorious black and white against some stunning & intricate examples of production design. Even the performances seem poised ... Read More:

3.Fox And His Friends [1975] starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder November 20, 1995
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Fox and his Friends - also known as Fox and First-Right to Freedom - is one of the key-works in the cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film, like many of the director's other great works, focuses on a torturous relationship - this time between a working class youth and the older son of a wealthy factory worker - and how their differences in class and upbringing can begin a tragic chain of events that lead, ultimately, to personal despair. As a film, Fox and his Friends works best as an unflinching exposé of the class-system, and offers a new variation on one of Fassbinder's key motifs; the idea of human suffering and the causes of such. Like the characters in past Fassbinder films, like The Merchant of Four Seasons ... Read More:

4.The Marriage Of Maria Braun [1978] starring: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen, Elisabeth Trissenaar directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder May 31, 1994
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The Marriage of Maria Braun was the first part of Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy, a collective of films that analysed the fall-out of the Second World War on the German subconscious. As a series of films, they are as important, both culturally and cinematically, as the Three Colours Trilogy and von Trier's Goldenheart cycle, proving that contemporary cinema is still capable of presenting a valid and emotionally engaging story with something deeper and more important developing on a subtetxtual level. As with the films aforementioned, Fassbinder's series covers a number of concerns - social & political - through the eyes of three disparate women. Here, we have Maria, who marries as the war is still raging and finds her self alienated & hopeless ... Read More:

5.The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant [1972] starring: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder April 28, 1997
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A perfectly controlled, deadpan mapping of a lesbian fashion designer's descent into hysteria and self-delusion. The central character is less victim than monster and an icy frisson is added by her keeping of a masochistic slave who cannot tolerate acts of kindness. Dialogue heavy and set in a single room, this is one of cinema's least apolagetic adaptations of a stage play, dividing itself into two neatly contrasting acts and rarely altering the camera angle. Particularly recommended to fans of Warhol's characteristic cocktail of boredom, madness and depravity.

6.Fear Eats The Soul [1973] starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder July 24, 1995
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Fear Eats The Soul is one of the defining films of the New German Cinema movement of the late 60's and early 70's, and is perhaps the first true masterpiece by the maverick filmmaker, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fear Eats the Soul could also be seen as the first film that is characteristic of the director's trademark style; as he advances on the territory of earlier films like The Merchant Of Four Seasons and The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, whilst all the while refining his style of camp Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama, and spiralling emotional despair. Like the majority of the director's work, Fear Eats The Soul focuses on a relationship between two characters from different backgrounds, in this case, an elderly German woman and ... Read More:

7.In A Year Of 13 Moons [1978] starring: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder April 28, 1997
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I believe that the film has many autobiographical features for Fassbinder's turbulent life. While I felt sympathy for the unhappiness of the trans-sexual leading character, I really disliked the film and couldn't finish it. It had too much sado-masochistic content and over-use of shock-tactics, e.g., the prolonged slaughter-house scene with blood pouring for the slit throats of cattle strung up on a rail.

8.The American Soldier [1970] starring: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Kathrin Schaake, Ulli Lommel directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder November 20, 1995
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If you like Fassbinder then this early film noir exercise is a must. The film is shot in contrasting black and white and features the usual ensemble cast. Drama and over-the-top hysteria rub shoulders with dark comedy in a story of how one man's worth is measured only in terms of his fragility as a human being.

9.Effi Briest [1974] starring: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Irm Hermann directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder May 31, 1994
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Glorious film version of Fontane's 'Bouvary' - shot in ultra sharp black and white, lingering takes, hazy close-up, numerous scenes reflected in mirrors, ethereal set design, superb performances and timely narration. Fassbinder exhibits his genius yet again in this historical exploration of a young woman married to wealth and power but vulnerable to the love of another. Melodrama is not very far from the surface but is handled with an acute sensitivity to the plot and the unfolding drama of adulterous exposure. The scene where the cuckolded husband agonises over whether or not to challenge the lover to a duel, interspersed with the future outcome is magical and displays why Fassbinder ranks with Bergman as probably the greatest filmmaker of the twentieth ... Read More:

10.Martha [1974] starring: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder October 13, 1997
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Glorious film version of Fontane's 'Bouvary' - shot in ultra sharp black and white, lingering takes, hazy close-up, numerous scenes reflected in mirrors, ethereal set design, superb performances and timely narration. Fassbinder exhibits his genius yet again in this historical exploration of a young woman married to wealth and power but vulnerable to the love of another. Melodrama is not very far from the surface but is handled with an acute sensitivity to the plot and the unfolding drama of adulterous exposure. The scene where the cuckolded husband agonises over whether or not to challenge the lover to a duel, interspersed with the future outcome is magical and displays why Fassbinder ranks with Bergman as probably the greatest filmmaker of the twentieth ... Read More:

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