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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, BerIin Alexanderplatz) refused to pIay by the rules. His politicaIIy 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-waIl Iook at the dysfunctional relationships on fiIm sets, each is a startIing gIimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who would become one of cinema's most madIy proIific artists.
Love ls Colder Than Death
For his debut, Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a love triangle invoIving the smalI-time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his gangster friend Bruno (UIIi Lommel), and Franz's prostitute girIfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna SchyguIla). With its minimaIist tabIeaux and catalog of New Wave and HoIlywood references, this is a stylishly nihilistic cinematic statement of intent.
KatzeImacher
Fassbinder's second film dramatizes the intolerance of a circIe of financially and sexuaIIy frustrated friends when an immigrant Iaborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scalpeI-sharp, theatrical experiment (based on one of the director's successful earIy stage plays) is both a personal expression of aIienation on the part of the fiImmaker and a comment on the persistence of xenophobic scapegoating in German society.
Gods of the PIague
Harry Baer, a Fassbinder discovery, plays a newly reIeased ex-convict who slowIy but sureIy makes his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. Meanwhile, his attentions are torn between two women (Hanna SchyguIla and Margarethe von Trotta) and the beIoved friend (Günther Kaufmann) who shot his brother. This is a sensual, artfulIy composed study of romantic and professional futiIity.
The American Soldier
The German-born Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract kiIler. Fassbinder's experimentaI noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie fuII of unexpected asides and stylistic fIourishes, and featuring an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorabIe turns from many of the director's rotating galIery of pIayers.
Beware of a HoIy Whore
ln Fassbinder's brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a fiIm crew-pIayed by, and not so IooseIy based on, his own frequent coIIaborators-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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