Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed 41 films and was a major figure in the German cinema from the late 1960s until his death from a drug overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982. A serious study of his ...

The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner ...

New York offers a cornucopia of essential movie classics, and today another great series gets under way: the first installment of a nearly complete retrospective of the films of Rainer Werner ...

A year before his tragic death in 1982, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder — the cinema outlaw poet whose filmography included over 40 films and the epic TV mini-series “World on a Wire” and ...

A recent exhibition at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, oriented around the work of writer, director and producer Rainer Werner Fassbinder, provided a unique opportunity to consider the still ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder died as he lived: at many frames per second. The cinephile’s errand of trying to watch everything the German filmmaker made in his lifetime, from all 10 hours of “Berlin ...

Germany’s deutschfilm and France’s Rezo will co-produce “Rainer” on the life of the legendary director. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Fassbinder shot 44 films in just 16 years before dying ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema movement, and now you can see his final acting role on the big screen in a brand new restoration. Wolf Gremm’s ...

On Sunday May 31st, Rainer Weiner Fassbinder, one of the most influential German film directors, would have turned 70 - had it not been for his death at the age of 37 in 1982. The Local takes a look ...

The acclaimed German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70 this year, on May 31. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Deutsches Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the ...

The style and sensibility of a documentary are inseparable from its substance. The way that filmmakers present information reveals their point of view regarding that information, and even regarding ...