Of the 40 feature films Germany’s prolific bad boy helmed in his 13 year career, 4 present notably queer protagonists. In Part 1 I covered “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” and “Fox and his Friends ...
Der Münchner Filmberserker dachte während der Dreharbeiten nicht ans Aufhören, er war, im Gegenteil, der Pläne voll. Auf seiner unmittelbaren Agenda standen u.a. eine Komödie sowie eine Biografie zu ...
Cinephiles are known to get excitable every time The Criterion Collection—the taste-making film distributor—announces a new batch of films is joining its esteemed library. Directed by influential, ...
Frameline39: the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival will kick off in a few weeks at the city’s glorious Castro Theatre showcasing hundreds of new LGBT films along with one very special ...
Beyond a story as such (as the title suggests), this is a sensitive portrait of refusal — refusal of otherness by a predominantly white heteronormative society; refusal of the state’s normalizing, ...
Queer cinema owes everything to a pair of dead French fags. Jean Cocteau bequeathed a vibrant neoclassicism to generations of homo sophisticates. You can feel his touch in the symbolist psychodramas ...
1975 wendet sich Fassbinder zunächst wieder dem Theater zu. Doch das Stück "Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod" endet im Eklat. Sein spätes Projekt "Berlin Alexanderplatz" ist eines der ambitioniertesten ...
From the August, 1983 issue of High Times comes Mike Wilmington’s tribute to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), the darling of the film festivals; a director of genius who died of a ...