On June 30, exceptional acting talent Udo Kier will be honored with the CineMerit Award at this year´s Munich Filmfest. His 40 year-old world-spanning mega career got him to focus on the kings of mean and characters of darkness, amongst them: Dr. Jekyll, Dracula, Frankenstein or Jack the Ripper. He blessed over 160 international cinema (…)
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Today we would like to remind you of the tenth anniversary of Peter Märthesheimer’s death, who was one of RWF’s most important supporters and collaborators. Born in Kiel, he studied economics and sociology before starting in 1964 as a commissioning producer at the WDR (the German State TV station, based in Cologne). During his WDR (…)
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It is with great pleasure that we announce a Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective in Japan: It will run from June 21 until July 4, 2014 in Tokyo’s Auditorium Shibuya. Organized by the Athénée Francais Cultural Center, Eurospace, this venue will be supported by the Goethe Institut Tokyo. This is the first comprehensive presentation of Fassbinder’s (…)
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Today we have 2 topics to bring to your attention: The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation recently joined Facebook so please go ahead and like, share and comment our posts, join the conversation and help us keep the work alive by spreading it amongst your facebook friends. All help apreciated. Link: https://www.facebook.com/fassbinderfoundation Secondly: Our dear friend, (…)
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The name Fassbinder has been well known and popular in the US for decades. The first comprehensive retrospective of his film-oeuvre took place in 1997 at MoMA, preceded by a selection of his movies that were featured at the Sundance Festival. Now, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, NY is going to celebrate a wide-ranging (…)
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