The Merchant of Four Seasons (’72) was German writer-director-actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ninth film in four years, an early sign of a creative fertility which would never let up throughout his ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Even in death, he struck a defiant pose. It was the kind of shot you might see in a film: a cigarette burned down all the way to the butt, lodged between the lips of a man lying in ...

Cinematheque Ontario’s two-headed Fassbinder retrospective manages a bizarre achievement. There is an undeniable logic in pairing Fassbinder’s films with great films he loved and that influenced him – ...

New York offers a cornucopia of essential movie classics, and today another great series gets under way: the first installment of a nearly complete retrospective of the films of Rainer Werner ...

He was a brilliant and prolific film-maker, but he was hell to work with. And 16 years after his untimely death two of his former lovers are still arguing over him Rainer Werner Fassbinder is ...

Broadcast on German TV in the early 70s but never before released in the U.S., Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s five-part miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day arrives like a gift from the movie gods. Not ...

What Rainer Werner Fassbinder might have done working in the U.S. -- and what the change of scenery might have done to him -- haunts "Fassbinder in Hollywood," a compact and engrossing vid-shot study.