Tag: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Crazy–Like A Whore!–Fassbinder’s Lola & The Commodity of Love
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is arguably the authority on films about prostitutes, particularly in his later canon of work. Though even some of his mid-era filmography [Read More…]
Money Changes Everything for Fox and His Friends
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is not the person to turn to for “light fare” or reassuring statements about the nature of humanity. He is there, in [Read More…]
The Chauvinistic Overtones of Episode Five in Berlin Alexanderplatz
Considering the time period in which Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz took place (the late 1920s), the prevalence of misogyny isn’t all that [Read More…]
What Rainer Fassbinder’s Ali Says About Outsider Influence on Relationsips
“Sometimes I wish it was just you and me alone in the world.” So says Emmi (Brigitte Mira), the widowed protagonist in one of Rainer [Read More…]
