Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Two Great Epics

10/14/11 to 10/28/11

Back by popular demand after its recent premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival, we present another opportunity to see the dazzling new 35mm restored print of the sci-fi spectacle World on a Wire (1973) paired with Fassbinder's other great television epic, the masterful Berlin Alexanderplatz (1979–80), imported as a 35mm restored print from Germany.

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  • World on a Wire

    Friday, October 14 7 pm
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1973) New 35mm Restored Print! Fassbinder's legendary made-for-television science-fiction epic finally reappears in a brand-new print. An evil cybernetics company creates another version of our world; one investigator soon wonders, though, which world is real? This existential head-trip anticipated The Matrix, Blade Runner, and Inception. (204 mins plus intermission)
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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Parts I–III

    Sunday, October 16 2 pm
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1979–80) New 35mm Restored Print! A special presentation of the recently restored Fassbinder epic, adapted from Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the Berlin underworld. “Fassbinder reached the zenith of his inspiration here”(New Yorker). (199 mins plus intermission)
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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Parts IV–VII

    Friday, October 21 7 pm
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1979–80) New 35mm Restored Print! A special presentation of the recently restored Fassbinder epic, adapted from Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the Berlin underworld. “Fassbinder reached the zenith of his inspiration here”(New Yorker). (199 mins plus intermission)
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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Parts VIII–XI

    Sunday, October 23 2 pm
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1979–80) New 35mm Restored Print! A special presentation of the recently restored Fassbinder epic, adapted from Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the Berlin underworld. “Fassbinder reached the zenith of his inspiration here”(New Yorker). (199 mins plus intermission)
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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Parts XII, XIII, Epilogue

    Friday, October 28 7 pm
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1979–80) New 35mm Restored Print! A special presentation of the recently restored Fassbinder epic, adapted from Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the Berlin underworld. “Fassbinder reached the zenith of his inspiration here”(New Yorker). (199 mins plus intermission)
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