Recent months have brought news of a several deaths of figures connected with the life and work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. On June 1, for example, Margit Carstensen, one of the most important and distinctive actresses to appear in Fassbinder’s films, passed away. Carstensen’s best-known leading roles include the serial killer Geesche Gottfried in BREMEN (…)

Best lists classify and hierarchize; they testify to a passion for cinema and yet should not be taken too seriously. Probably one of the most famous of such lists comes from the English magazine Sight & Sound and is dedicated every ten years to the search for the best films of all time. With over (…)

François Ozon’s new film PETER VON KANT has been showing in German, Austrian and Swiss cinemas since the end of September. The loose adaptation of Fassbinder’s 1972 play “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” which RWF also filmed himself, opened this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. In Ozon’s version, the fashion designer in Fassbinder’s (…)

“The Arsonists” is the title of the current issue of the venerable French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. The cover features Pier Paolo Pasolini and Fassbinder, to whom the magazine has devoted a thirty-page focus. The issue includes descriptions of film shoots by the actresses Ingrid Caven and Bulle Ogier and accounts by the directors (…)