The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner ...

One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s early productions, a five-part TV miniseries called Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972-73), is having its U.S. premiere in March, introducing a new generation of ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema movement, and now you can see his final acting role on the big screen in a brand new restoration. Wolf Gremm’s ...

The acclaimed German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70 this year, on May 31. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Deutsches Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the ...

Choosing just one film from the extensive works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a daunting task. The influential German filmmaker passed away in 1982 at the young age of 37, leaving behind an ...

Broadcast on German TV in the early 70s but never before released in the U.S., Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s five-part miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day arrives like a gift from the movie gods. Not ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was so prolific that, decades after his death in 1982, we’re still rediscovering previously hidden works as they’re restored by the Fassbinder Foundation and making their ...

If, for whatever reason, some prophetic stranger were to approach me at this very moment and tell me I was about to be plucked from my spot upon this futon and flown to a desert island with nothing ...

In his compact, unnerving new chamber film Queen of Earth, Alex Ross Perry packs a potent, inventively off-key punch with his combo of a brilliant pre-credit emotional breakdown scene and the baroque ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a force of nature. During the last 13 of his 37 years, the West German filmmaker churned out some 40 films and television projects, many of them masterpieces, becoming one ...