Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8/29/03 to 9/24/03
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Katzelmacher, September 6, 7|
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Past Films
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Friday, August 29 7:00 PMThe well-crafted world of a famous designer is slowly unraveled by the treachery of love. "A haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue."-David Denby, New Yorker '03View DetailsALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL
Saturday, August 30 5:00 PMThe unlikely love between a washerwoman in her sixties and a Moroccan guest worker twenty years her junior is the subject of Fassbinder's bitter and touching homage to Douglas Sirk.View DetailsTHE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
Saturday, August 30 7:00The story of a hapless fruit peddler told as "a virtuoso balance of soap opera, social comedy, irony, politics, farce, and brilliant ensemble acting."-New Yorker FilmsView DetailsTHE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
Sunday, August 31Hanna Schygulla became the new Dietrich with her ironic performance as an emblem of Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Brilliantly complex...splendid and mysterious."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL
Wednesday, September 3 8:50The unlikely love between a washerwoman in her sixties and a Moroccan guest worker twenty years her junior is the subject of Fassbinder's bitter and touching homage to Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.View DetailsTHE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
Wednesday, September 3 7:00"Arguably Fassbinder's masterpiece, this deadpan, crystalline evocation of petit bourgeois misery inaugurated a new phase in his career, coinciding with his growing reputation abroad."-Village VoiceView DetailsTHE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Friday, September 5 9:20A fashion designer is slowly unraveled by love. Fassbinder divas Hanna Schygulla and Margit Carstensen in "a haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue."-New YorkerView DetailsTHE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
Friday, September 5 7:00Hanna Schygulla became the new Dietrich with her ironic performance as an emblem of Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Brilliantly complex...splendid and mysterious."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsLOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
Saturday, September 6 5:00 PM"A restless and sombre foray into the black-and-white world of the Hollywood gangster film as interpreted by B-movie mavericks [and] stripped bare by Fassbinder."-Time OutView DetailsKATZELMACHER
Saturday, September 6 7:00 PMThe name means "troublemaker," fitting for Fassbinder, who cast himself as a despised immigrant worker, the butt of bored youth in a Munich backwater. "A gritty, low-budget tour de force."-Village Voice. With short City Tramp.View DetailsKATZELMACHER
Sunday, September 7 5:30 PMThe name means "troublemaker," fitting for Fassbinder, who cast himself as a despised immigrant worker, the butt of bored youth in a Munich backwater. "A gritty, low-budget tour de force."-Village Voice. This screening does not include short.View DetailsGODS OF THE PLAGUE
Sunday, September 7 7:20 PMA lowlife gangster flick in which the camera gets all the best lines. With Schygulla, Von Trotta, Ingrid Caven.View DetailsTHE AMERICAN SOLDIER
Wednesday, September 10 5:30 PMFassbinder called this film about a Vietnam vet in Munich "a study of a perfect killer." David Denby called it "a film esthete's dream of a gangster movie, all languorous gesture and sullen aggression."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsGODS OF THE PLAGUE
Wednesday, September 10 7:10 PMA lowlife gangster flick in which the camera gets all the best lines. With Schygulla, Von Trotta, Ingrid Caven. With short Little Chaos.View DetailsBEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE
Friday, September 12 7:30 PM"In this film about filmmaking (not to mention the tortuous Fassbinder scene), the director cast Lou Castel as a director, calling it 'a comedy about myself as seen from the outside.'"-Village VoiceView DetailsEFFI BRIEST
Saturday, September 13 6:30 PMFontane's 19th-century novel adapted into a classic and elegant film. "What Fassbinder has achieved with detachment and easy grace is a kaleidoscopic perspective on the moral attitudes taken by all those involved with Effi...delicately and willfully portrayed by Hanna Schygulla."-Judy Stone, S.F. ChronicleView DetailsFEAR OF FEAR
Wednesday, September 17 5:30 PMMargit Carstensen portrays a young mother in the grip of anxiety. Vincent Canby called this small film "perfectly sculpted...a distillation of reality-a dream in which everything counts."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsCHINESE ROULETTE
Wednesday, September 17 7:20 PMFassbinder out-Buñuels the master in this camp satire on the haute bourgeoisie starring Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen. "The humor fits the cruelty like a boot fits a groin."-Time OutView DetailsFOX AND HIS FRIENDS
Friday, September 19 7:00 PMFassbinder is the star of this powerful psychodrama in the guise of a fable, in which a good-natured prole wins the lottery and is skillfully, ruthlessly exploited by his wealthy boyfriend. A great example of the director's vision of "love as the most insidious instrument of repression."View DetailsMOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN
Saturday, September 20 7:00 PMA factory worker goes postal, making his widow one old and very confused poster girl for the Left. A brittle Brechtian parable of political exploitation that had the distinction of being banned from the Berlin Film Festival. Can't take a joke, or even a tragedy.View DetailsVERONIKA VOSS
Wednesday, September 24 5:00 PM"Like most of Fassbinder's best films, this is about a loser: a fading movie star of the '40s who finds the '50s bearable only with the help of morphine. Shot in gleaming B&W...reminding us, long after Melville and his whale, that white can be as terrifying as black."-N.Y. Film FestivalView DetailsSATAN'S BREW
Wednesday, September 24 7:05 PM"Fassbinder doesn't make 'comedies'...he makes ironies, and he's never been more brilliantly ironic than in this examination of a sadistic anti-hero," played by Kurt Raab.-Soho Weekly NewsView Details
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