Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
In 1977, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer, he embarked on a project to trace the postwar... more
Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla. Petra is an arrogant fashion designer who mistreats her assistant and then falls in love with an aspiring young model Karin. Karin moves in with Petra... more
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already... more
New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly... more
Crafted for German public television, this rediscovered, lyrical social drama miniseries from Rainer Werner Fassbinder flavorfully follows the life of a young tool factory laborer (Gottfried John) as... more