Until his untimely death aged just 36 Rainer Werner Fassbinder blazed a trail through post-war German cinema leaving a prolific and celebrated body of work that continues to inspire shock and challenge audiences and filmmakers. Veronika Voss: Influeneced by Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' Fassbinder's savage satire stars Rosel Zech as the eponymous Veronika Voss a washed-up film star who dreams of returning to the glory days of her past. In a Year of Thirteen Moons: Volker Spengler gives an extraordinary performance as the transgendered Elvira a man who has... become a woman in a desperate bid to please a former lover. Relaying various episodes from Elvira's life Fassbinder's powerful film is one of his most intensely personal. The Third Generation: One of Fassbinder's most controversial films 'The Third Generation' is a perverse satire about an incompetent gang of bourgeois terrorists who are motivated more by a desire for action than by their weak political convictions. Germany in Autumn: This fascinating portmanteau film also takes as its subject the political unrest wrought in the autumn of 1977 by the terrorist activities of Red Army Faction. Through documentary dramatised vignettes and archival footage Fassbinder and his collaborators examine the events and explore the motivations behind this crisis point in German history. [show more]
With their second collection of the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Artificial Eye has once again gathered some of his finest works into one place. "Veronika Voss" is a dazzling tribute to Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," as well as to the legacy of German expressionism with its lurid black-and-white visuals and melodramatic stories. The story of a doomed and aged ex-actress, hooked on drugs but still able to seduce a much younger man with her glamorous aura, is tailor-made for Fassbinder's distinctive aesthetic, and this is one of his finest films. "In a Year of 13 Moons" is equally strong, a heartfelt biography of a transvestite whose desperation for love and acceptance crosses all gender borders. A harrowing and deeply moving tale, it was shot by Fassbinder himself with a fragmentary style that scatters light and mirrors all over the screen in a blinding display of visual ingenuity. "The Third Generation" is one of Fassbinder's most bitingly satirical films, a bitter condemnation of faux-radicals and the absurdity of what passes for political dialogue in modern societies. Made in 1979, this was ahead of its time and remains strikingly relevant today with its harsh and hysterical parody of media culture. Finally, "Germany in Autumn" was a political film made by a number of German directors together, with Fassbinder providing the stark and confrontational opening half-hour. This is another great packaging of some of Fassbinder's greatest masterpieces, thankfully now more widely available for modern audiences to appreciate his vision.
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Four films by acclaimed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 'Veronika Voss' (1982), a journalist (Hilmar Thate) becomes fascinated with Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), 1940s German film star and one-time friend to Goebbels, who has deteriorated into a morphine addict in the care of a disreputable doctor. In 'In a Year of Thirteen Moons' (1978), Volker Spengler gives an extraordinary performance as the transgendered Elvira, a man who has become a woman in a desperate bid to please a former lover. Relaying various episodes from Elvira's life, Fassbinder's powerful film is also one of his most intensely personal. 'The Third Generation' (1979), one of Fassbinder's most controversial films, is a perverse satire about an incompetent gang of bourgeois terrorists who are motivated more by a desire for action than by their weak political convictions. 'Germany in Autumn' (1978) is a portrayal of the political unrest wrought in the autumn of 1977 by the terrorist activities of the Red Army Faction. Through documentary, dramatised vignettes and archival footage, Fassbinder and his collaborators examine the events and explore the motivations behind this crisis point in German history.
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