Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Once declaring half-facetiously that he wanted to be to film "what Shakespeare was to the theater, Marx to politics, and Freud to psychology," Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the premiere filmmaker of the New German Cinema, famous for his prodigious, inventive output over his short career. Making over 30 features in a dozen years, as well as creating works for TV and theater, Fassbinder became renowned for his potent combination of Hollywood genre gestures and overt stylization with an acutely sensitive, critical assessment of German society.Fassbinder also espoused the use of the overwrought conventions of melodrama to reach visceral truths and disrupt bourgeois propriety. Born in 1945 in Bad...read more