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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love -- to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
2) Whity
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's sole western is set in the late 1800s in the perverse household of Ben Nicholson, his blonde trophy wife Katherine, and two sons, the sadistic Frank and brain-damaged Davy. Whity's mother Marpessa is the family cook, singing freedom songs in the kitchen, but Whity adores the family and puts up with enslavement to please them--until he falls in love with saloon-singer Hanna. Filmed in Spain on the same sets where Sergio Leone staged Clint...
3) Baal
Series
Criterion collection volume 914
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourgeois society has rejected him and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The stationmaster Bolwieser is sexually obsessed with his beautiful wife. Soon bored with her husband she engages in adulterous affairs, causing him to become sullen and depressed leading to disasterous consequences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 740
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
Deutsch
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
Series
Criterion collection volume 851
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded insert.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom, but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and...
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