RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Vol. 1
One of the most acclaimed and con- WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK? MARTHA LOLA I DON’T JUST WANT YOU TO LOVE ME (documentary)
troversial post-war German filmmakers,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder created a pro-
lific and extraordinarily influential body of
work that revolutionised cinema.
- Fassbinder’s savage and provocative portrait of middle-class banality and alienation follows
the monotonous daily routines of the mild-mannered Herr R. Until, one evening, he finds that he
can take no more.
Germany 1970 / 84 minutes / 4:3 / Dolby Digital Dual Mono
- Margit Carstensen stars as a young woman who finds herself slowly stripped of her freedom
by her sadistic and tyrannical husband. Fassbinder’s bold homage to Douglas Sirk’s 1950s
Technicolor melodramas finds him at his most wickedly perverse and stylistically assured.
Germany 1974 / 111 minutes / 4:3 / Dolby Digital Dual Mono
- Conceived as a homage to Josef Von Sternberg’s Blue Angel’, ‘Lola’ is a biting satire of capital-
ist greed starring Barbara Sukowa as the eponymous cabaret singer and call girl.
Germany 1981 / 110 minutes / 16:9 / Dolby Digital Dual Mono
- Fassbinder’s friends and closest colleagues remember him in this documentary profile which
also includes interviews with Fassbinder himself and excerpts from his work.
Germany 1993 / 96 minutes / 4:3 / Dolby Digital 2.0
