For Rainer Werner Fassbinder, work and life were an inseparable unity. On May 31, 2025, the cult director would have turned ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career ...

More than 20 years after adapting a Rainer Werner Fassbinder play called “Waters Drops on Burning Rocks” into a movie, François Ozon has made this gender-flipped adaptation of one of ...

You’re probably old enough to know the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died of a drug overdose in 1982; and B) You’re not mistaken that the new movie is a gender-swapping riff on the ...

From Fassbinder to Pasolini and Sciamma, here are some of the best gay movies from the global arthouse ... coded and ahead of their time. From Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Pier Paolo Pasolini ...

When asked in 1974, halfway through his too-brief career, whether he thought films ought to be critical rather than affirmative, Rainer Werner Fassbinder ... films about working men, there is little ...

Making movies at such a clip that it can be hard to keep track of which ones actually get a U.S. release, French filmmaker François Ozon is back this year with a reimagining of Rainer Werner ...

But the movies brought a means to escape them. By Jessica Kiang The packed biographical film “Enfant Terrible” races to keep up with the blazing life of the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980. (Photo By Edoardo Fornaciari ... adaptations of Vladimir Nabokov and Jean Genet to gangster movies, a science-fiction series for television, gothic horror ...

“What if everything we think is real is just an illusion?” began A. O. Scott’s review of the 1973 made-for-German-TV movie by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Welt Am Draht” (in English, “World on a Wire”).