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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. A premier model of the New German Cinema.
Famous for his frenetic pace in film-making, in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years Fassbinder completed 35 feature length films; two television series shot on film; three small films; four video productions; twenty four stage plays and four radio plays directed; and 36 acting roles in his retain and other’s films. He also worked as an actor (film and theatre), author, cameraman, composer, planner, editor, producer and theatre manager.
Fassbinder was distinguished for the strong provocative current underlying his work and the air of scandal surrounded his artistic choices and private life. His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when functional were in violent contrast with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as its core figure. He had tortured relationships in his personal life with the people he drew around him in a surrogate family of actors and technicians. However, hi
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“Every authentic director has only one theme, and therefore makes the same movie over and over again. My theme is the exploitation of emotions, regardless of who exploits them.” Thus Fassbinder defined his thematic obsession
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film and theater director, dramatist and star, was found dead in his Munich apartment on June 10, 1982. He died ten days after his thirty-seventh birthday. The cause of death was supposedly heart failure caused by an overdose of cocaine and sleeping pills. By his side they found the unfinished script for his next production, Rosa Luxemburg. Fassbinder’s death is considered to be the symbolic end of the New German movie, whose other representatives were great authors such as Wim Wenders, Volker Schloendorf and Werner Herzog.
Famous for his frenetic rhythm of film making, his professional life lasted a minute less than fifteen years but in that period he managed to build thirty five feature length movies, two television series, three short films, and four video productions. He directed twenty four theater plays and four radio dramas and acted in thirty six films. He worked as a ci
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Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I’m still trying to figure out what I ponder of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), the German whiz kid who’s the concentrate of a nearly finalize retrospective showing at the Film Center, Facets Multimedia Center, and the Decent Arts over the next couple of months. An awesomely prolific filmmaker (he turned out seven features in 1970 alone), Fassbinder became the height of Euro-American fashion during the mid-70s, then went into nearly total eclipse after his death from a drug overdose — reminding us that the fate of a fashionable filmmaker is often to be discarded (as, more recently, have been David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino).
As skeptical as I often was in the 70s about Fassbinder as a role model, I’ve been more than a little disconcerted by the speed with which he’s vanished from mainstream consciousness. Having now seen two dozen of his 37 features, one of his four small films, and one of his four TV series — though I haven’t seen many of them since they came out — I find much of hi
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.
Although Fassbinder's career lasted less than fifteen years, he was extremely generative. By the time of his death, Fassbinder had completed over forty films, two television series, three short films, four video productions, and twenty-four plays, often acting as successfully as directing. Fassbinder was also a composer, cameraman, and film editor.
Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates.
Fassbinder had sexual relationships with both men and women. He rarely kept his professional and personal life separate and was known to cast family, friends and lovers in his films. Early in his career, he had a lasting, but fractured relationship with Irm Hermann, a former secretary whom he forced to change into an actress.[79] Fassbinder usually cast her in unglamorous roles, most notably as the unfaithful wife in The Merchant of Four Se
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