Fassbinder Retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
November 7 – 26
One of the most prolific and influential European filmmakers of the
second half of the 20th century, Rainer Werner Fassbinder completed
nearly 40 feature-length films between 1969 and 1982 (the year he died
at age 37) and left behind one of the most cohesive and provocative
bodies of work in the history of cinema. In his many melodramas,
gangster movies, literary adaptations, and even sci-fi films, he
returned obsessively to themes of love, crime, labor, and social and
emotional exploitation. He was similarly fixated on his beloved
performers, many of whom—Hanna Schygulla, El Hedi ben Salem, Ulli
Lommel, and countless others—comprised a repertory company whose fierce,
complicated devotion to their visionary leader defies comparison. Part
two of our retrospective—the largest in New York City in over a
decade—which includes all of Fassbinder’s theatrical movies and many of
his television films, along with several works connected with his
eternally relevant artistry.
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