DESPAIR in France on DVD & Blu-ray

CARLOTTA Films to bring out both editions on September 19. Following the premiere of the restored version at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and subsequent screenings in selected French cinemas, the new edition of RWF’s DESPAIR is now being released on DVD and Blu-ray. The restoration and the production of the new master in (…)

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HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #4 WHO LOVES – WORKING IN A GROUP

Lectures and discussions in Berlin on September 15 and 16 The series of events taking place in 2012 under the umbrella title of HANDS ON FASSBINDER is a collective project mounted by the German film journal REVOLVER, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), the Berlin cinema Zeughauskino, the RWFF and the German Federal Agency for Civic (…)

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Closing event of the RWF Exhibition in the Munich Theater Museum

Rudolf Waldemar Brem and Hans Hirschmüller The highly successful exhibition on RWF’s work for the theater held at the German Theater Museum in Munich (May 25 – September 9) is now drawing to an end. Its conclusion is being marked on Thursday, September 6 at 7 p.m. by an illustrated lecture with the promising title (…)

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30 years ago: RWF‘s QUERELLE

A story of love, betrayal and murder QUERELLE had its world premiere at the World Film Festival in Montréal in late August 1982. The European premiere followed only a few days later on August 31 at the International Film Festival in Venice. It was Fassbinder’s last film. The novel on which the film is based, (…)

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Gottfried John turns 70

German film’s most striking visage and its saddest eyes Gottfried John was born in Berlin on August 29, 1942 and spent most of his early years living in child-welfare institutions. In 1960 he moved with his mother to Paris, where he earned his living as, among other things, a pavement artist. It was during this (…)

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