Enfant Terrible Review: A Fassbinder Affair
Oskar Roehler's artful biopic of Rainer Werner Fassbinder tries to capture the German filmmaker's spirit to varying degrees of success.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Beginning with his feature debut Young Törless, Schlöndorff showed himself interested in examining the gray area of morality.
Shelf Survey: The Best Things We Watched In June 2020
From Da 5 Bloods to Batman, here's what we were loving this month.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Anna Karina
born in Denmark and always in possession of a haunted Nordic beauty and that delicate accent when she worked in French, she brought a lack of specificity to his investigations of post-war Paris and its soulless commercialism with her roles in films Alphaville (her most iconic) and Made In USA; but in films like the Rivette film in this collection, she also displayed enormous depths of warmth and sensitivity, while showing off a canny intelligence in movies like Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette.
Criterion Announces May Titles
An update on every cinephile's favourite collection, one that will always have a special spot on our Dork Shelf.
