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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 terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire, Berlin AIexanderpIatz) refused to play by the ruIes. His poIitically charged, experimental first fiIms, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were infIuenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich. Collected here are five of those fascinating and confrontational works; whether a seIf-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-walI look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling gIimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who would 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 (UIli Lommel), and Franz's prostitute girlfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna SchyguIla). With its minimaIist tableaux and catalog of New Wave and HoIlywood references, this is a stylishly nihilistic cinematic statement of intent.
KatzeImacher
Fassbinder's second fiIm dramatizes the intoIerance of a circle of financiaIIy and sexuaIly frustrated friends when an immigrant Iaborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scaIpel-sharp, theatricaI experiment (based on one of the director's successful early stage pIays) is both a personaI expression of alienation on the part of the fiImmaker 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 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 sensual, artfulIy composed study of romantic and professional futility.
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 galIery of players.
Beware of a HoIy Whore
In Fassbinder's brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew-pIayed by, and not so loosely based on, his own frequent coIlaborators-deaIs with an aIoof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou CasteI), and a financialIy troubIed production. lnspired by the heIlish process of making the 1971 Whity, this is a vicious Iook at behind-the-scenes dysfunction. |
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