R W Fassbinder film season – BFI April/May 2017

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of post-war Germany’s greatest filmmakers.

“I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theater, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Rainer Werner Fassbinder 

BFI Southbank dedicates a two-part season in April and May to the works of R W Fassbinder.

The season begins a the end of March with an introduction. Dr Martin Brady, will introduce the season with a lecture on Fassbinder’s gangster films and melodramas, and explore the environment of 1960’s and 70’s Germany from which they emerged. On 29th March, there will be a screening of The Marriage of Maria Braun followed by a Q&A with actor Hanna Schygulla and editor/Fassbinder’s second wife Juliane Lorenz, who is also the president of Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

From there, the season will follow his film and television works retrospectively from Love is Colder than Death, and Katzelmacher, through Fear Eats The Soul, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, World on a Wire, to Lilli Marlene and Querelle.

Fassbinder’s short films, several documentaries on his life and work,  and education events are also included in the season.

This is a rare opportunity to see most of R W Fassbinder’s works on 35 mm and on new restoration prints.

For bookings and further information please visit BFI On Line:

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R W FASSBINDER SEASON – BFI

APRIL 2017

Season opening

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)  plus live Q&A with Hannna Schygulla and Juliane Lorenz

28/03/2017

TRAILER

 

Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

FILM CLIP

 

The City Tramp (1966)

Short Film

 

The Little Chaos (1967)

Short Film

 

Katzelmacher (1969)

TRAILER

 

Gods of the Plague (1969)

TRAILER

 

Why Does Herr R Run Amok (1969)

FILM CLIP

 

Rio Das Mortes (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

Whity (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

FILM CLIP

 

Beware of a Holy Whore (1970)

TRAILER

 

The American Soldier (1970)

TRAILER

 

Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1970)

TRAILER

 

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)

FILM CLIP

 

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)

TRAILER

 

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972)

TV Series

 

World on a Wire (1973)

TV Series

TRAILER

 

Martha (1973)

FILM CLIP

 

Effi Briest (1974)

FILM CLIP

 

Fox and His Friends (1974)

TRAILER

 

I Don’ Just Want You To Love Me – The Flimmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1992)

Dir: Hans Gunther Pflaum

Documentary Film

 

Fassbinder (2015)

Dir: Annekatrin Hendel

Documentary Film

 

Fassbinder Education Events

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Wunderkind, Iconoclast, Star

Introduction Lecture by Martin Brady

28/03/2017

 

BFI Course: The Many Faces of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martin Brady and Erica Carter

13/04 – 08/06/2017

 

Study Day: Fassbinderian Politics

22/04/2017