Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder (Criterion Collection) On DVD

Actor:       Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl Scheydt, Ulli Lommel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla
Director:   Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre:      Foreign Video - Other
Year:         N/A
Studio:     Criterion Collection
Length:    453
Released: August 27, 2013
Rating:      Unrated (Video)
Format:     DVD
Misc:         Color
Language:German
Subtitles  :English

DESCRIPTION:

From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire, Berlin Alexanderplatz) refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich. Collected here are five of those fascinating and confrontational works; whether a self-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-wall look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling glimpse into the mind of a twentysomething man who would become one of cinema’s most madly prolific artists.