The New York Times

‘Querelle’: Fassbinder’s Defiant Swan Song

Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film, based on Jean Genet’s novel, about a young sailor’s criminal and erotic escapades. By J. Hoberman Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ...
Queerty

1982’s controversial ‘Querelle’ creates a world drenched in homoeroticism

This week, we continue our column’s Pride Month series—where we highlight a movie representing a different letter of the LGBTQ+ acronym—with “G” and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s homoerotic thriller ...
Queerty

Why this homoerotic classic about sweaty sailors is stirring up controversy 40 years later

Cinephiles are known to get excitable every time The Criterion Collection—the taste-making film distributor—announces a new batch of films is joining its esteemed library. Directed by influential, ...
The New York Times

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner ...
The Nation

The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980. (Photo By Edoardo Fornaciari / Getty Images) While many of us, stateside, squandered the salad days of our pandemic bingeing Tiger King or revisiting The Sopranos and ...