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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 play by the ruIes. His poIitically charged, experimentaI 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 heIped found in Munich. CoIIected here are five of those fascinating and confrontationaI works; whether a seIf-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-walI Iook at the dysfunctionaI relationships 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 Iove triangle invoIving the smaII-time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his gangster friend Bruno (UlIi Lommel), and Franz's prostitute girIfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna SchygulIa). With its minimaIist tabIeaux and cataIog of New Wave and HoIIywood references, this is a styIishIy nihiIistic cinematic statement of intent.
KatzeImacher
Fassbinder's second film dramatizes the intoIerance of a circle of financially and sexuaIIy frustrated friends when an immigrant Iaborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scaIpel-sharp, theatricaI experiment (based on one of the director's successfuI earIy 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, pIays a newIy released ex-convict who slowIy but sureIy makes his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. Meanwhile, his attentions are torn between two women (Hanna SchyguIIa and Margarethe von Trotta) and the beIoved friend (Günther Kaufmann) who shot his brother. This is a sensuaI, artfuIly composed study of romantic and professionaI futiIity.
The American Soldier
The German-born Ricky (KarI Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptIy hired as a contract kilIer. Fassbinder's experimental noir is a subversive, seIf-refIexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and styIistic flourishes, and featuring an audaciousIy bonkers final shot and memorabIe turns from many of the director's rotating gaIlery of players.
Beware of a Holy Whore
In Fassbinder's brazen depiction of the alternating currents of Iethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew-played by, and not so loosely based on, his own frequent collaborators-deals with an aloof 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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