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it's now at Netflix, just having been released on DVD.
It's a sprawling account of pre-Hitler low-class existence in 'tween wars Berlin.
Franz Biberkopf is released from prison where he served four years for the death of his girlfriend whom he beat to death with his fists. Is he a homocidal maniac? A regular guy that didn't realize the strength of his own powerful arms? Did he just lose it and does he truly pose no threat to society, now?
This slovenly creature, if you see all the episodes (and it is a 16-hr. film), will become more known and more unforgettable to you than any other film creation.
Franz... lives.
You also will understand Germany and its people more than any history book possibly could enlighten.
It justifiably is considered by many as one of the greatest films.
It is very, very disturbing in its merciless expose of humanity.
See the first disc and see if you can resist viewing them all.
He was a terrible guy, nasty and mean, but his work tend to the contrary...
Ah, this unreachable ideals...
Put another way, if an author is going to write things about an "average Joe," don't you think he'd gloss over the good and concentrate on the bad, assuming he wanted to maximize sales?
Not sticking up for Fassbinder, whom I didn't know (of course), but I'd take rumors for a grain of sea salt.
Anyhow, who cares if Raphael was egotistical?
Or that Proust was condescending and cruel?
Or Dostoyevsky mean-spirited and violent?
I'm not looking for buddies among artists.
You mention stuff like this, regularly, so it seems it affects your total view of the artist?
Not mine.
I don't care.
I like Wagner's music.
I like to read Kierkegaard (sp?).
I bet you've enjoyed de Sade???
First even it don´t count in this discussion, Fassbinder was not a real nice guy, not at all.
Read many interviews about him and the latest being Schygulla meaning about him..
He was a sadist, always trying to arrange that people hate each other.
But what I want to point out was that he try t compensate in his flms about his bad means.
No I don´t hear Wagner´s music any more, I don´t like it and I despise the man.
Why should I?
Mein kampf is still not my prefered bedside lecture...Nor is it Sade which is just despitful but fascinating because he did not know any limit.
As an experience he is the trip worth.
But one trip, in a one way ticket.
You guess it, If the author an absolute asshole is in his life, I cannot like his work.
From a rooten tree never saw good apples...
We like that with goose liver and a toast.
aren't considered "nice guys," you hate their work?
Myself, I consider art as being a separate category from personality.
If a horrendous person makes great art, is it a form of fortune's egalitarianism, no?
Hemingway was an anti-Semite, do I now begin to hate the works I loved before? What if I know nothing about an artist, should I not touch their works until I know more?
Now, if the person is still living, it's a bit more difficult.
I've recently read of a former comic in France, a man of color, who now is one of the leading anti-Semites in France. I'd probably not find anything he does of interest or humor...
BTW, I find Mein Kampf and some Karl Marx & Co. writings interesting, though of course their authors directly or indirectly led to tens of millions of deaths.
Yes a work that led to misery....
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Can you see with your very own sense & sensibility who is a swine and who is not.
Wagner, peuh!
How bad they really were?
For modern time artists we know better.
Take Villon, he was bad but only bad.
And brillant upon the stars above.
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...first saw it when it initially came to the US, shown in a movie theater over TWO days...that's about 8 hours per day. Thought it was as good as any cinema experience ever. I'm about to start watching it through again, this time at a more leisurely pace, to see how much of what I remember is accurate. One thing I remember being intrigued by was the way Fassbinder kept the camera continuously moving in a way that was dynamic and worked big time. Watched it about the time I made the transition into (non-fiction) filmmaking so it was an especial thrill to someone breaking into the craft.
you will also be pleasantly surprised to see some of his troupe in major roles.
I've finished Parts 1 and 2 and, thanks to your observation, I'll pay special attention to the camera movements.
One thing I've noticed: at least through these beginning parts, the palette is yellow/brown/rust.
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