It’s a provocative juxtaposition for Dry Wind to stage its queer kinkfest at the epicenter of the land of Bolsonaro.
The trilogy is accorded a series of breathtakingly, resonantly gorgeous transfers by Criterion.
Now this 15-hour-plus epic runs at 25fps, as per the original German TV broadcast.
Fassbinder blends kitchen-sink realism with the expressionism that would cement his legend.
A central work of the New German Cinema movement finally finds its weary way onto Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
Throughout, Rainer Werner Fassbinder delights in the little moments that embolden routine with a spark of possibility.
The film arrives on Blu-ray with an immaculate transfer and a lacking slate of extras from Criterion.
Kamikaze ‘89 refuses to direct its nose-diving satire at any one target in particular, which makes it equal parts exhilarating and exhausting.
Arrow Video’s top-shelf Blu-ray presentation of this haunting, if tasteless, curio is among the year’s most complete home-video packages.
A must-buy for the beautiful aural/visual rendering of one of Fassbinder’s gentlest, most direct films.
It’s perhaps only natural that a film festival as wide-ranging as the Berlinale would include a few documentaries about filmmakers.
This year’s nominees are all, almost conspicuously, united by their deployment of the canniest of distancing effects.
Review: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on Criterion Blu-ray
A gorgeous Fassbinder debauch that would prove to be a key work in his evolution as a purveyor of boldly symbolic class-conscious tragedies.
This is on of Fassbinder’s most penetrating examinations of the social challenges of extending and receiving true, uncompromised empathy.
Fisher’s smart questions elicit both useful and humorous responses from Petzold throughout.
These works evidence a filmmaker with an appropriationist’s eye who nevertheless has larger sociological concerns on his mind.
Almost out of necessity, White finds a particularly prominent motif throughout Haynes’s work: a fascination with the out-of-line family.
It’s the warping, re-signifying logic of affect and memory that architected this list.
The operative sensibility of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cinema is panoptical.
Criterion presents this rediscovered Fassbinder mindbender in a luxe Blu-ray transfer.