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05-12-03 | 10:08 PM
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Someone mentioned the Fassbinder box set earlier in the thread, and DavisDVD posted some details on it the other day:
The Criterion Collection will release a box set collection of three films from late German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder this fall. The trio of titles include 1979's The Marriage of Maria Braun, 1981's Lola, and 1982's Veronika Voss. "Fassbinder is one of the most important filmmakers of the last 40 years, but due to the lack of availability of his films over the years, many people haven't had a chance to see many of them," said Criterion's Issa Clubb, a co-producer of the Fassbinder box. "We feel like this project is part of a way to get Fassbinder back into people's consciousness again." Criterion is working closely with the Fassbinder Foundation on these releases and will include new interviews with editor (and Foundation director) Juliane Lorenz, cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger, Museum of Modern Art film curator Lawrence Kardish, and others. Other extras have yet to be finalized, but possibly look for commentary tracks and some deleted scenes.
05-15-03 | 06:49 PM
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The Pornographers is up as spine # 207.
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=207
Am wondering what is going to fill out 202 - 206
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=207
Am wondering what is going to fill out 202 - 206
05-15-03 | 08:18 PM
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Am wondering what is going to fill out 202 - 206
#199: Schizopolis (Soderbergh/1997)
#202: Terminal Station/Indiscretion of an American Wife (De Sica/1953)
#203-206: Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy (Marriage of Maria Braun/Lola/Veronika Voss) (1978/1981/1982)
[BRD=Bundesrepublik Deutschland=West Germany; note that the catalog misprints this as "BDR"]
05-16-03 | 11:47 AM
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No. The chances are better for SHOESHINE.
Subsequently, I was able to find an OOP copy of the (barebones) Image release at my local Borders. A truly great film. I would love to see Criterion release both Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief someday (along with other Italian Neorealist classics). The upcoming release of Umberto D. and the two early Olmi films (Il Posto and I Fidanzati) gives me hope . . .
06-03-03 | 12:48 PM
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Originally posted by FilmFanSea
#203-206: Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy (Marriage of Maria Braun/Lola/Veronika Voss) (1978/1981/1982)
[BRD=Bundesrepublik Deutschland=West Germany; note that the catalog misprints this as "BDR"]
#203-206: Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy (Marriage of Maria Braun/Lola/Veronika Voss) (1978/1981/1982)
[BRD=Bundesrepublik Deutschland=West Germany; note that the catalog misprints this as "BDR"]
06-04-03 | 01:11 AM
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Originally posted by garmonbozia
what makes these 3 films a trilogy?
what makes these 3 films a trilogy?
Slightly before [In the Year of] 13 Moons came the first part of his trilogy on ‘the entire history of the Federal German Republic’ (a worthy title for his entire oeuvre) and his biggest international success The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978). It is probably best to look at this film with Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982) as they all centre on women in WW2 and its aftermath – a wife looking for her missing husband, a cabaret artist caught between two powerful men and a washed up Third Reich film star. These films offer careful analysis of the social make-up of those years in terms of dissidence and the changing and unchanging nature of Germany through that period. Fassbinder’s greatest achievement is perhaps his ability to put everyday life onto screen in short sagacious parables. Stylistically these films are more assured than before (not least because of bigger budgets) as Xaver Schwarzenberger’s masterly camerawork and Rolf Zehetbauer’s production design for Veronika Voss attest.
