Arrow Video’s top-shelf Blu-ray presentation of this haunting, if tasteless, curio is among the year’s most complete home-video packages.
These works evidence a filmmaker with an appropriationist’s eye who nevertheless has larger sociological concerns on his mind.
Criterion presents this rediscovered Fassbinder mindbender in a luxe Blu-ray transfer.
The play is a heady Brechtian mashup that surprisingly charms rather than ironically alienates.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s sumptuous 205-minute epic is intriguing as a prototype for later and more palatably cynical sci-fi standards.
The many melodramas experienced on the set of the film would set the stage for much of Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore.
Comparisons between Beware of a Holy Whore and Godard’s Contempt and Truffaut’s Day for Night are unavoidable.
The film’s blanched look evokes a heavenly realm where Franz and Joanna’s love is constantly compromised by Bruno’s threatening third wheel.
The film is a rigorous illumination of deception as a survival tactic.