Tag Archives: Volker Schlöndorff

Fassbinder and His Friends, Part 2

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Mark Stern

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder, prodigious, original, unrestrained, died in 1982 at the age of 37, he left behind a miraculous body of work–nearly 40 feature-length films, made for theatrical distribution and German television, a mini-series “Eight Hours Are Not a Day” … Continue reading →

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Is Paris Exploding?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Mark Stern

Before dawn in Paris on August 25, 1944, a German aristocrat, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), prepares to execute an order from Hitler (enraged  by the destruction of Berlin), to replace beauty with rubble in the City of Light, to greet the advancing Allied … Continue reading →

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