In Reply to: Any Fassbinder fans here? posted by Victor Khomenko on August 1, 2000 at 06:11:03:
I think Fassbinder is important as a film maker, if not entertaining. He was the first director to "frame" shots within the context of the scene using door frames, etc. And Fox is a fairly uncanny fortelling of how he actually died.For German cinema I prefer Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo is my favorite) and of course Wim Wenders.
It's funny, I'm catching my wife up on movies these days since she never really watched them growing up. Films like The Maltese Falcon and even Apocalypse Now have been refrenced and parodied so much that it's hard to appreciate the impact they first had on our culture.
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