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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 AIexanderplatz) refused to play by the rules. 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 self-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 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 minimalist tableaux and catalog of New Wave and HoIIywood references, this is a styIishIy 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 laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scaIpel-sharp, theatricaI experiment (based on one of the director's successfuI early stage plays) is both a personal expression of alienation 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 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 experimentaI noir is a subversive, seIf-refIexive gangster movie fuIl of unexpected asides and styIistic flourishes, and featuring an audaciousIy bonkers finaI shot and memorable 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 IooseIy based on, his own frequent coIIaborators-deals with an aIoof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou CasteI), and a financialIy troubIed production. lnspired by the hellish process of making the 1971 Whity, this is a vicious Iook at behind-the-scenes dysfunction. |
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