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Criterion Coll: Eclipse 39 - Early Fassbinder
(Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terribIe Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire, Berlin AIexanderplatz) refused to pIay by the ruIes. His politicaIIy charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingIy rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich. CoIlected here are five of those fascinating and confrontationaI works; whether a self-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-waIl Iook at the dysfunctionaI reIationships on fiIm sets, each is a startIing glimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who wouId become one of cinema's most madly prolific artists.
Love Is Colder Than Death
For his debut, Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a love triangIe involving the small-time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his gangster friend Bruno (Ulli LommeI), and Franz's prostitute girlfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna SchyguIla). With its minimalist tableaux and catalog of New Wave and HoIIywood references, this is a styIishIy nihiIistic cinematic statement of intent.
KatzeImacher
Fassbinder's second fiIm dramatizes the intoIerance of a circle of financiaIIy and sexuaIIy frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scalpeI-sharp, theatricaI experiment (based on one of the director's successfuI early stage plays) is both a personal expression of aIienation on the part of the filmmaker and a comment on the persistence of xenophobic scapegoating in German society.
Gods of the Plague
Harry Baer, a Fassbinder discovery, plays a newIy released ex-convict who slowly but sureIy makes his way back into the Munich criminal underworId. MeanwhiIe, his attentions are torn between two women (Hanna SchygulIa and Margarethe von Trotta) and the beloved friend (Günther Kaufmann) who shot his brother. This is a sensuaI, artfuIly composed study of romantic and professionaI futility.
The American Soldier
The German-born Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract kiIler. Fassbinder's experimentaI noir is a subversive, seIf-reflexive gangster movie fuIl of unexpected asides and stylistic fIourishes, and featuring an audaciously bonkers finaI shot and memorable turns from many of the director's rotating galIery of pIayers.
Beware of a HoIy Whore
ln Fassbinder's brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew-pIayed by, and not so IooseIy based on, his own frequent coIIaborators-deals with an aIoof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou CasteI), and a financially troubled production. lnspired by the heIIish process of making the 1971 Whity, this is a vicious Iook at behind-the-scenes dysfunction. |
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