The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Part 1: 1969 - 1971
Love is Colder Than Death | Katzelmacher | Gods of the Plague | Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | The American Soldier | The Niklashausen Journey | Rio das Mortes | Pioneers in Ingolstadt | Whity
“I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.”
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ten favorite films:
1. The Damned (dir. Luchino Visconti)
2. The Naked and the Dead (dir. Raoul Walsh)
3. Lola Montès (dir. Max Ophüls)
4. Flamingo Road (dir. Michael Curtiz)
5. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)
7. Agent X27 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
8. The Night of the Hunter (dir. Charles Laughton)
9. Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
10. The Red Snowball Tree (dir. Vasily Shukshin)
“When you look at the development of Rainer’s work between the late sixties and his death in the eighties, and the enormous leap it made in just 14 years, you realize what it might have led to in the 80s and 90s. I can’t imagine what sort of films he’d be making now, but the loss of all the films he didn’t get to make is unimaginable.”
Wim Wenders on Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982)
Barbet Schroeder and Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
