{"id":3742,"date":"2017-04-01T23:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2017-04-02T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T22:14:22","slug":"rainer-werner-fassbinder-at-the-bfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2017\/04\/rainer-werner-fassbinder-at-the-bfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the BFI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nRW Fassbinder<\/B>

\nApril and May 2017

\nBFI Southbank, London

\nBFI website<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dead by 37, openly bi-sexual, constantly controversial: Rainer Werner Fassbinder was arguably post-war Germany\u2019s greatest filmmaker. Now the BFI celebrates the maverick director with a major retrospective. Here’s the line-up announcement:<\/I><\/b><\/p>\n

Running from Monday 27 March \u2013 Wednesday 31 May, BFI Southbank\u2019s major Fassbinder retrospective will celebrate the constantly controversial and fearless filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, arguably post-war Germany\u2019s greatest director. This extensive retrospective will feature most of the great auteur\u2019s huge body of work, from gangster movies to melodramas, social satires to queer dramas. Fassbinder is perhaps one of the most prolific filmmakers of the 20th century; his first 10 features were astonishingly made in less than two years, and he went on to make another 30 by the time he died young at 37. A fearless artist who knew no taboos, Fassbinder combined scathing social criticism with profound psychological insight.<\/p>\n

The season kicked off last month with a special screening of Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun<\/i> (1978) and an introductory talk Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Wunderkind, Iconoclast, Star by Martin Brady (King\u2019s College London, GSSN), followed by the re-release of Fear Eats the Soul<\/i> (1973) on Friday 31 March. Playing on extended run during the season, this was Fassbinder\u2019s international breakthrough. A bold reworking of Douglas Sirk\u2019s All That Heaven Allows<\/i>, Fear Eats the Soul <\/i>is an unconventional love story which combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power; arguably Fassbinder\u2019s best loved film, it is still, 40 years on, burningly relevant.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming highlights in April and May include a Fassbinderian Politics Study Day<\/b> and The Bitter Tears of Fassbinder\u2019s Women: A Symposium<\/b>. There is also a Fassbinder collection available on BFI Player+ from 31 March, comprised of 10 of his best-loved films including Fear Eats the Soul <\/i>(1973), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant<\/i> (1972) and Fox and His Friends<\/i> (1974). BFI and Arrow Films, who will be distributing the re-release of Fear Eats the Soul<\/i>, have also worked together to make a number of the films available across the UK in new DCPs.<\/p>\n

An insatiable film addict from early childhood, Fassbinder drew inspiration from the French New Wave and, later, from the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk and others. Running alongside the season, the BFI’s regular Big Screen Classics series will showcase some of these films; Fassbinder\u2019s Favourites will include Sirk melodramas All That Heaven Allows <\/i>(1955) and Imitation of Life<\/i> (1959), pioneering French New Wave films Vivre sa vie<\/i> (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) and Le Signe du lion<\/i> (Eric Rohmer, 1962), as well as Hollywood classics such as All About Eve <\/i>(Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1950) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/i> (Howard Hawks, 1953). The series will also continue in May with further titles Fassbinder has cited as influential to him.<\/p>\n

Study Day: Fassbinderian Politics<\/b>
\nRainer Werner Fassbinder\u2019s films \u2013 whether about rebellious housewives, gay hustlers, or communist terrorists \u2013 are all deeply political. But he was a contradictory and provocative artist who defied categorisation. At this study day we\u2019ll attempt to reveal what Fassbinder really stood for. Through thoughtful presentations and engaging discussion, we\u2019ll examine his preoccupation with marginal figures (and intersectional solidarity among them), re-evaluate his provocative representations of LGBT characters, and consider how his forensic analysis of class exploitation contrasts with his critique of left-wing institutions. Join us to discover a radical filmmaker whose complex politics have profound relevance today.
\nTickets \u00a36.50
\nSat 22 April 12:00-15:30 NFT3<\/b><\/p>\n

Fassbinder: Television Pioneer<\/b>
\nFrom ambitious series like Berlin Alexanderplatz to TV-movie melodramas, Fassbinder embraced television as a medium and a platform. In this talk, film scholar Mattias Frey (University of Kent) explores how Fassbinder exploited TV\u2019s artistic potential, how the funding it offered made his career possible (he would surely be making Netflix series today), and how he seized upon TV as a way of communicating provocative ideas to a
\nmass audience, in their own homes.
\nTickets \u00a36
\nTue 2 May 20:30 Library<\/b><\/p>\n

The Bitter Tears of Fassbinder\u2019s Women: A Symposium<\/b>
\nTRT 210min
\nStories of female desire, pain, and resilience are at the heart of Fassbinder\u2019s films. The glamorous divas, heartbroken cleaners, rebellious housewives, and transsexual sex workers that populate his cinematic world were forged in the heat of vital (and sometimes turbulent) creative collaborations with female actors who would return again and again to work with him. Join us at this essential symposium to explore Fassbinder\u2019s
\ncomplex creative and personal entanglements with key female actor-collaborators (such as Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira and Irm Hermann), and the mixture of cruelty, fascination and empathy he showed for his vital and compelling female characters.
\nSat 13 May 12:00-15:30 NFT3<\/b><\/p>\n

Philosophical Screens: Repression and Release in Fassbinder\u2019s Chinese Roulette<\/b>
\nTRT 70min
\nIn the latest in our popular series exploring cinema through a philosophical lens, we consider Fassbinder\u2019s spiky, provocative critique of German bourgeois values. Chinese Roulette depicts a savage world riven with infidelity and loathing, where people cruelly goad each other into revealing their deepest secret thoughts and desires \u2013 but what truths does Fassbinder unearth? Join film philosophers William Brown, John \u00d3 Maoilearca and Catherine Wheatley as we explore how Fassbinder gives expression to the darkest chambers of the German soul via his repressed characters and their relation to space, objects and each other.
\nFree to ticket-holders of Chinese Roulette<\/i> on Wed 10 May (but must be booked via the box office due to limited capacity), otherwise \u00a36
\nWed 10 May 20:00 Blue Room<\/p>\n

BFI Course: The Many Faces of Rainer Werner Fassbinder<\/b>
\nMartin Brady and Erica Carter (King\u2019s College London, GSSN) will co-ordinate guest speakers and present sessions themselves in this eight-week course to accompany our Fassbinder retrospective. Illustrated discussions and lectures will take a closer look at Fassbinder\u2019s obsession with Hollywood genres, the stars he cast and the West German context from which his films emerged \u2013 from student revolts, through queer
\nculture to terrorism! Beginners and experts welcome.
\nCourse fee \u00a396, concs \u00a380 *No session on Thu 18 May
\nEvery Thu* from 13 April \u2013 8 June 18:30-20:30 Studio <\/b><\/p>\n

Full listings and booking details for all the films included in the Fassbinder season as well as ‘Big Screen Classics: Fassbinder’s Favourits’ can be found on the BFI website<\/a>.<\/b> <\/p>\n

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