Juliane Lorenz

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller.

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller.

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller.

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s films and who collaborated closely with him to create his vision, provides us with an intimate insight into Schroeter’s artistic output during the remaining four years of his life.

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Juliane Lorenz on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen.

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Ambientado em Vienna, o filme narra a forma como a vida de uma escritora é tomada pela autodestruição ao ser dividida entre seu marido e seu amante. Isabelle Huppert é a estrela na adaptação de Werner Schroeter do romance de Ingeborg Bachmann, coescrito por Elfriede Jelinek (A Professora de Piano)

Sabine works in a hairdressing salon in Berlin. In order to keep the job, she has to occasionally grab the boss. She also feeds her boyfriend Frank. Sabine has simple dreams: sleek-cars and holidays on the beach.

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

Uma ilha deserta no Mar Báltico é governada pelo barão vampiresco Aunt Devil. Onde outrora a paz e a alegria moldavam as vidas dos ilhéus, agora reina desesperança e discórdia. Quando o verdadeiro amor de um casal ameaça o estado de tristeza da ilha, o barão sofre um ataque de nervos.

Schroeter casts his tutored eye on Mnouchkine, the legendary founder of the avant-garde Théâtre du Soleil, with whom he shared an affinity for collage and pastiche, improvisation and distillation, ancient Greek drama, commedia dell’arte, opera, and Asian traditions of theater and dance. In this fascinating study of the creative process, Mnouchkine is seen directing her company in a revival of 1789, her defining political work, along with her 1977 film Molière and the theatrical premiere of Hélène Cixous’s The Horrific and as Yet Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia. - MoMA

Numa praia do Mediterrâneo vivem uma mulher e o seu filho adulto Albert. Albert, que deseja o jovem Fernando, rapta-o, aprisiona-o e começa a controlar-lhe a vida, dando-lhe banho e alimentando-o com as rosas perfeitas que ele cultivou...

The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.

O marujo francês Querelle chega a Brest e frequenta um estranho bordel. Logo descobre que seu irmão Robert é amante da dona do lugar, Lysiane. "Aqui você pode jogar dados com Nono, o marido de Lysiane: se você ganhar, pode fazer amor com ela; se perder terá que fazer amor com Nono..." Querelle perde de propósito.

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Munique, 1955. A estrela de cinema Veronika Voss torna-se uma toxicodependente à mercê da corrupta Dra. Marianne Katz. Depois de conhecer Robert Krohn, ela sonha com um regresso ao estrelato. Quanto mais o relacionamento se intensifica, mais ela toma consciência do quanto o vício a debilitou.

Munique, 1955. A estrela de cinema Veronika Voss torna-se uma toxicodependente à mercê da corrupta Dra. Marianne Katz. Depois de conhecer Robert Krohn, ela sonha com um regresso ao estrelato. Quanto mais o relacionamento se intensifica, mais ela toma consciência do quanto o vício a debilitou.

Baviera, 1957. Em uma pequena cidade, Schuckert é um magnata corrupto da construção. Quando o novo oficial honesto Herr von Bohm é nomeado, ele tenta se aproximar de Schuckert e ousa entrar no bordel da Villa Fink – o verdadeiro centro da economia da cidade. Até que se apaixona pela prostituta Lola.

Baviera, 1957. Em uma pequena cidade, Schuckert é um magnata corrupto da construção. Quando o novo oficial honesto Herr von Bohm é nomeado, ele tenta se aproximar de Schuckert e ousa entrar no bordel da Villa Fink – o verdadeiro centro da economia da cidade. Até que se apaixona pela prostituta Lola.

Ao gravar a canção "Lili Marlene", Wilkie (Hanna Schygulla) se torna a cantora mais popular da Alemanha de Hitler. Mas mesmo no auge da fama, não encontra a felicidade por viver um amor proibido com Robert (Giancarlo Giannini), um músico judeu que participa da resistência contra os nazistas. Baseado na autobiografia da cantora Lale Andersen.

Inverno de 1978, Berlim Ocidental. Um grupo de radicais alemães desajeitados (unidos mais pelo comportamento sigiloso do que pelas convicções políticas) sai do radar quando Paul é morto pela polícia. Os jovens terroristas sequestram Peter Lurz, representante de uma empresa informática americana.

Inverno de 1978, Berlim Ocidental. Um grupo de radicais alemães desajeitados (unidos mais pelo comportamento sigiloso do que pelas convicções políticas) sai do radar quando Paul é morto pela polícia. Os jovens terroristas sequestram Peter Lurz, representante de uma empresa informática americana.

Inverno de 1978, Berlim Ocidental. Um grupo de radicais alemães desajeitados (unidos mais pelo comportamento sigiloso do que pelas convicções políticas) sai do radar quando Paul é morto pela polícia. Os jovens terroristas sequestram Peter Lurz, representante de uma empresa informática americana.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Maria e Hermann Braun se casam apressadamente, mas ficam juntos menos de 24 horas porque Hermann precisa voltar à frente de batalha. Ao final da guerra, ele é dado como desaparecido. Maria se emprega em um bar, conhece um soldado americano e fica grávida. Certa noite, Hermann volta para a casa e a surpreende com o soldado. Enfurecido, ele os agride e acaba sendo preso. Pouco depois, Maria vai trabalhar para um homem de negócios, sendo sua secretária e confidente. Ao sair da prisão, Hermann decide tentar a sorte em outro país. Alguns anos mais tarde, ele e Maria se reencontram e procuram esclarecer seu trágico passado.

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

Berlim, década de 1930, durante a ascensão do nazismo. Hermann Hermann, um emigrante russo e fabricante de chocolate, casado com a caprichosa Lydia, perde cada vez mais a calma nas suas relações com os seus trabalhadores e outros empresários; até conhecer Felix, um vagabundo, que parece ser fisicamente idêntico a ele; um facto desconcertante que leva Hermann Hermann a traçar um caminho particular para sair de um mundo falso que ele realmente odeia.

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.