The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 29 – Early Fassbinder [Part 1]

The Eclipse Viewer – CriterionCast

English - June 22, 2015 12:00 - 83.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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Previous Episode: The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 28 – Silent Ozu: Three Crime Dramas

Next Episode: The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 30 – Early Fassbinder [Part 2]

David and Trevor cover Love is Colder than Death and Katzelmacher, the first two films written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder.

About the films:

From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1970, were influenced by the work of the Antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich. Collected here are five of those fascinating and confrontational works. Whether a self- conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-wall look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling glimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who was to become one of cinema’s most madly prolific artists.

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Timeline for the podcast:

Introduction/Background (00:00:01 – 00:33:32)

Love is Colder than Death (00:33:33 – 01:02:34)

Katzelmacher (01:02:35 – 01:28:48)

Conclusion (01:28:49 – 01:30:45)

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Episode Links
Director Overview

The Fassbinder Foundation – His Life – His Art
Senses of Cinema
Jim’s Reviews
The Playlist
Wikipedia
Criterion
Dangerous Minds (features video clip of 1969 Berlin Biennale, with Love is Colder than Death in competition.)
Film.com ranking of all Fassbinder films from worst to best (one person’s opinion)