Godard, Truffaut, Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Fellini and Visconti are among the foreign directors introduced to these shores by the NFT.

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But she married Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a brilliant but self-destructive film maker.

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Fassbinder films life in the cosseted class as a masque of glass and mirrors, replete with alluring deceptions and suave surfaces that belie volcanic passions.

NEWYORKER: Despair

Adapting a script by Tom Stoppard based on a novel by Nabokov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder brings Weimar-era decadence to life with vibrant derision and visual mystery.

NEWYORKER: Despair

Meanwhile employing a camera style reminiscent of that of Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk, his great influence he shows Mildred trapped in a world that is not of her making.

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Fassbinder demolished the boundaries between the personal and the artistic, integrating his homosexual relationships and the illusion of conventional heterosexual domesticity with actresses who were his muses and reproducing the resulting conflicts onscreen.

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Coogan, who is a gifted physical comic, does an outstanding job playing a fatuous, slightly naughtier version of himself, and Winterbottom focusses on other characters only as part of his orbit, including a Fassbinder-loving P.

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The entire movie teeters on the edge of sick comedy in particular such scenes as the death of the Goebbels children, one by one, at the hands of their mother and at times one longs for a coldly malicious ironist like Brecht or Fassbinder to come in and take over.

NEWYORKER: Downfall