#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 2: Sports journalists

Veronika Voss, once one of #Ufa's greats, has a chance meeting with sports journalist Krohn. Despite not recognising her at first glance, the faded star and her world turn out to be irresistible to him. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss is #Fassbinder's tribute to both #BillyWilder's Sunset Blvd. and real-world Ufa actress Sybille Schmitz ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-sehnsucht-der-veronika-voss-1982

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#HBO has 7 #RainerWernerFassbinder films. There goes the weekend.
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Chinese Roulette for Mubi Monday. A solid start to the week.

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Fear Eats the Soul

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#CinemaPoetry

When the inventor of the Simulacron, a virtual reality world, dies in the eve of the huge conglomerate taking an interest in the project, they bring in a springy scientist Fred Stiller to take over the research. Fred has some reservations for the job since his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, but happy to oblige to the given task, as the project is a scientific milestone. Odd things start happening around him though: he suffers from constant headaches, his friend at the company disappears in mid-conversation & nobody notices that he is gone. What's more, no one acknowledges that his friend ever existed. Then there are blackouts and memory lapses. Something is definitely wrong.
#RainerWernerFassbinder taps into the concept of virtual reality, way before Matrix. Its obvious influences are everywhere- the phone booth, contact/oracle and whatnot. The film’s got a lot more to do with identity crisis in the technologically infused world- our world. #newgermancinema #scifi

In a Year of 13 Moons is filled with long monologue, absurd humor, spurts of raw emotions, many elegant visuals and lots of nutty characters. Volker Spengler shines as a tragic heroine who made some grave mistakes in search of love and forced to live with the consequences. In a Year of 13 Moons is an interesting, if not exhausting experience. #RainerWernerFassbinder #germancinema #VolkerSpengler #GotfriedJohn

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) - Fassbinder
Faithfully borrowing the storyline of a classic Hollywood melodrama, All that Heaven Allows (1955, dir. Douglas Sirk), Fassbinder criticizes postwar racism as a continuation of the Nazi past and also reifying the stranger as an object of orientalist fascination, while playing with traditional gender roles. #rainerwernerfassbinder #alifeareatsthesoul #immigration #orientalism #germancinema

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Am 10. Juni 1982 starb #RainerWernerFassbinder. Zum 40. Todestag erinnert @ARTEde@twitter.com heute mit zwei Filmen an den arbeitswütigen Regisseur: #LiliMarleen und #AngstEssenSeeleAuf. Um 20.15 unser #TVTipp : https://www.filmdienst.de/artikel/54839/rainer-werner-fassbinder-zum-40-todestag-tv-programm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FILMDIENST/status/1538764835420196864

RT @FILMDIENST@twitter.com

Am 10. Juni 1982 starb #RainerWernerFassbinder. Zum 40. Todestag erinnert @ARTEde@twitter.com heute mit zwei Filmen an den arbeitswütigen Regisseur: #LiliMarleen und #AngstEssenSeeleAuf. Um 20.15 unser #TVTipp : https://www.filmdienst.de/artikel/54839/rainer-werner-fassbinder-zum-40-todestag-tv-programm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FILMDIENST/status/1538764835420196864