Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Having few similarities to the renowned German filmmakers after World War II, visionaries such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, or Wim Wenders, Henckel von Donnersmarck's true influences came from the realms of American and world cinema.

Playback:stl Syndication 2009

The Fassbinder Foundation Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'World on a Wire' has been restored by Janus Films German New Wave firebrand Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 42 features before his death in 1982, at age 37, including such widely distributed projects as "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and the landmark miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz," which was broadcast on PBS in 1980.

Taking a Relic Over the Moon Steve Dollar 2011

The late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder , one of Sirk's greatest champions, observed of Sirk's sensibility: Remarque's saying that if it weren't for the war this would be eternal love.

Cinema's Warm Embrace Steve Dollar 2011

Theater director Jay Scheib based his new science-fiction thriller, "World of Wires," on Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's "Welt am Draht," a 1973 television series that was in turn based on Daniel Galouye 's 1964 novel, "Simulacron-3."

Variations on a Simulation Lizzie Simon 2012

In this body of work, Zilm has worked with the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and DW Griffith, creating haunting representations of New German Cinema and silent Hollywood in a tour de force of conceptualist painting.

ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's only science-fiction work, the made-for-German-television "World on a Wire" which had a short run at MoMA last summer, turned up for a week in December.

On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles Anthony Paletta 2011

As part of the ongoing retrospective series, these weekend screenings salute the power-trio of the 1970s German New Wave: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders .

Repertory Film: No-Holds-Barred Cinema Steve Dollar 2012

"Kamikaze '89" 1982, starring the late, great German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Dreams and Screams Steve Dollar 2011

In this body of work, Zilm has worked with the movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and DW Griffith, creating haunting representations of New German Cinema and silent Hollywood in a tour de force of conceptualist painting.

ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the preeminent force behind Germany's "new cinema" of the seventies, would have just turned 64 had he lived.

John Farr: R.W. Fassbinder, Twisted Genius 2010