Hailed as Fassbinder's best film when it was shown at film festivals in 1975, then having virtually disappeared for two decades, Fear of Fear is a true rediscovery. Fassbinder trades on the tricks of his Hollywood mentors, especially Douglas Sirk, in creating an always sunlit environment for his heroine, the "perfect" middle-class wife and mother, to go mad in. Margot (Margit Carstensen), soon after the birth of her child, experiences a depression that is exacerbated by her fear that she is becoming schizophrenic. Fassbinder brilliantly employs his famous mirror shots so that subjective and objective views of Margot are experienced simultaneously, both illustrating and confirming her fears. Disproving Roosevelt's famous axiom, Fear of Fear is more than an examination of free-floating anxiety; rather, as Vincent Canby noted, "it is about the autumn of materialism in the form of an intensely personal case history of a schizophrenic. As in the world where she lives, everything is perfect for Margot, yet nothing works." Repeated Friday, August 8.