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07/26/10
WORLD ON A WIRE in Melbourne
On August 1 and 4 at the Melbourne International Film Festival
The tour of Fassbinder’s newly restored two-part masterpiece will soon reach the Australian festival audience. The 59th Melbourn International Film Festival (MIFF) takes place between July 22 and August 8, (...)
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06/28/10
Forty Years Ago Today: RWF’s WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
A stylistic exception among Fassbinder’s works
As Christian Braad Thomsen writes in his book Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Leben und Werk eines masslosen Genies (Rogner & Bernhard, 1993), WHY DOES HERR RUN AMOK?—which examines the intolerability of a seemingly fulfilled (...)
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06/25/10
I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME and OF LOVE AND CONSTRAINTS
Restored version of the original film and documentary film at the Munich Film Festival
Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a construction worker named Peter (Vitus Zeplichal) who grew up without compassion, let alone love, during Germany’s economic miracle. Peter has (...)
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06/09/10
Garbage, the City and Death to Premiere in Ireland
Plastic Theatre Company performs the piece in Dublin
The theater poster for the Ireland premiere announces “A notorious anti-musical about power, prostitution, prosperity, and prejudices.” Director Jane Mulcahy will stage the controversial Fassbinder play in one of Europe’s (...)
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06/02/10
The Author Gerhard Zwerenz Turns 85
A Literary All-Rounder
Gerhard Zwerenz was born on June 3, 1925, in Gablenz, a section of the Saxon town of Crimmitschau. He learned the trade of coppersmithing before volunteering for the military at the age of 17. He deserted in 1944 and after spending four years in Russian (...)
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05/28/10
On May 31, RWF would have turned 65
A Star in German Film History
On May 31, the anniversary year 2010 reaches a climax. One gift to mark the occasion of RWF’s 65th birthday was the restored version of WORLD ON A WIRE. Facilitated by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, it could already be admired during the (...)
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05/18/10
Forty Years Ago: RWF’s THE COFFEEHOUSE
A Scenario Reduced to its Essentials
On May 18, 1970 the German national TV station WDR premiered a recording of THE COFFEEHOUSE. Fassbinder’s adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s comedy had been filmed in Cologne for ten days. In contrast to the elaborate stage sets of the 1969 (...)
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05/12/10
WORLD ON A WIRE on DVD in Britain
"Restored 2 Disc Edition" by Second Sight Films
The demand for the German version DVD of WORLD ON A WIRE in the ARTHAUS Premium series continues to be very strong. Now English fans can get excited about the UK edition. On May 17, 2010 our distributor for (...)
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05/07/10
“Lola” as a 1990s Petty Bourgeois Tragedy
Premiere on May 14 at Potsdam’s Hans Otto Theater
There were very few stage adaptations of Lola after the 1999 premiere under Armin Petra’s direction at the Theater Nordhausen. Starting on May 14, 2010, the second part of Fassbinder’s BRD-Trilogy – the movie (...)
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04/20/10
Werner Schroeter: Friend and Soul Mate.
An Obituary by Juliane Lorenz
At dusk on April 12, 2010, Werner died in an Ayurveda clinic in Kassel. He has left us. Peacefully and reconciled: With the pain of severe illness, the loss of many friends and companions, and suffering that must have been caused if one’s work, (...)
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