tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post1619404734789152949..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Cinema's Naughtiest Germans!Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-75298220245160644442010-01-20T12:00:52.205-05:002010-01-20T12:00:52.205-05:00Coool! Thanks, Ed! I'm kind of glad I waited t...Coool! Thanks, Ed! I'm kind of glad I waited to get into Fassbinder until now that I'm more mature and nihilistic.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-49707886789229305672010-01-20T11:45:27.381-05:002010-01-20T11:45:27.381-05:00Fassbinder is one of the greats, for sure, and ted...Fassbinder is one of the greats, for sure, and tedium and amateurishness are pretty much the last adjectives I'd apply to his brash, formally precise oeuvre. As much as I like the Brechtian minimalism and Hollywood genre pastiche of his earlier films, his late films are where it's really at for me, like <i>Maria Braun</i> and the whole BRD trilogy of which it's a part: lots of Sirkian mirrors, light and color used to suggest character, bold, woozy camerawork. And man, no one was blessed with a better group of actresses, among them the amazing Hanna Schygulla. <br /><br />If you want more Baader-Meinhof, incidentally, Fassbinder's own <i>Third Generation</i> is a bitingly funny satire of revolutionary violence and the aimlessness and pointlessness of the political youth movements of the time.Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.com