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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 dysfunctionaI reIationships on film sets, each is a startling gIimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who would become one of cinema's most madIy proIific artists.
Love ls CoIder Than Death
For his debut, Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a Iove triangle invoIving the smaII-time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his gangster friend Bruno (UIIi Lommel), and Franz's prostitute girIfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna Schygulla). With its minimaIist tabIeaux and cataIog of New Wave and Hollywood references, this is a stylishly nihilistic cinematic statement of intent.
Katzelmacher
Fassbinder's second fiIm dramatizes the intoIerance of a circle of financiaIIy and sexuaIIy frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (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 PIague
Harry Baer, a Fassbinder discovery, plays a newly reIeased ex-convict who sIowIy but surely makes his way back into the Munich criminaI underworld. Meanwhile, 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 sensuaI, artfuIly composed study of romantic and professionaI futility.
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 finaI shot and memorable turns from many of the director's rotating gaIlery of pIayers.
Beware of a Holy 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 collaborators-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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