05/10/11
DESPAIR – shown at the Cannes Classics

The Restored Version Will Premiere on May 13, 2011

On May 19, 1978 Fassbinder’s film DESPAIR was first shown to an international audience at the 31st Cannes International Film Festival. Based on British playwright Tom Stoppard’s screenplay, the budget for the filming of Vladimir (...)

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04/18/11
I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME finally on screen

Theatrical release in France on April 20, 2011

More than three decades after its creation, Fassbinder’s 1975 film, I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME, will finally premiere in European cinemas. Starting on April 20, 2011 selected movie theaters in France–initially Paris, Rennes, (...)

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04/13/11
IN A YEAR WITH THIRTEEN MOONS – New Stage Production

Premiere April 14, 2011 at the Theater Bremen

The Theater Bremen will premiere the piece In a Year with Thirteen Moons on April 14, 2011 at 8PM, presenting a new staging of the theater version based on RWF’s arguably most personal and most radical film. (...)

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01/27/11
Bernd Eichinger is dead

Farewell to a Towering Figure 

We are pleased to be able to pass on this obituary for Bernd Eichinger published by the German Film Academy on January 26, 2011. 

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01/15/11
Thirty Years Ago: RWF’s LILI MARLEEN

The story of a song known throughout the world and its singer

Fassbinder’s film LILI MARLEEN opened with 100 prints in cinemas across West Germany on January 15, 1981. As in the case of his BRD Trilogy, THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN; LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS, LILI MARLEEN sees Fassbinder (...)

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12/23/10
Seasons's Greetings 2010

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12/17/10
Armin Mueller-Stahl Celebrates His 80th Birthday

Congratulations!

One of Germany’s most versatile artists, the actor, musician, painter, and writer Armin Mueller-Stahl was born exactly eighty years ago.

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12/10/10
Fassbinder’s Oeuvre Travels to India

Retrospective at the 15th International Film Festival Kerala

The International Film Festival Kerala takes place from December 10 to 17, (...)

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12/06/10
Jean Genet’s 100th Birthday

A Homage at the Gay Museum and a Symposium at Freie Universität Berlin

The French playwright, novelist and poet Jean Genet was born on December 19, 1910 in Paris and died there on April 15, 1986. He never knew his father and at six months of age was placed in the care of a foster (...)

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12/02/10
Werner Schroeter-Retrospective at Centre Pompidou

La Beauté Incandescente  - The Incandescente Beauty

The slogan to describe the vitality of the exhibition dedicated to the most individual filmmaker of the New German Cinema couldn’t have been more suitable in this homage, which takes place between December 2, 2010 and January 22, (...)

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