Berlin Alexanderplatz Fassbinder Criterion

The zeitgeist of 1920 s germany is enhanced by it s unique look.

Berlin alexanderplatz fassbinder criterion. And the crowning achievement of prolific german filmmaker rainer werner fassbinder. With both cutting irony and profound empathy fassbinder exposed the moral hypocrisy of german society in slashing sirkian melodramas like the bitter tears of petra von kant and ali. Rainer werner fassbinder s controversial fifteen hour berlin alexanderplatz based on alfred döblin s great modernist novel was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who at age thirty four had already made over thirty films. Among his several masterpieces berlin alexanderplatz is in a league of its own not to be missed.

Fassbinder s immersive epic follows the hulking childlike ex convict franz biberkopf günter lamprecht as he attempts to become an honest soul. Rainer werner fassbinder s 15 hour television series berlin alexanderplatz receives a new blu ray upgrade from the criterion collection presented in the aspect ratio of 1 37 1 over the first three discs of this four disc set. Rainer werner fassbinder quick shop berlin alexanderplatz rainer werner fassbinder quick shop world on a wire rainer werner fassbinder quick shop fox and his friends rainer werner fassbinder quick shop eight hours don t make a day. U ntil its self described two hour epilogue rainer werner fassbinder s adaptation of alfred döblin s 1929 novel berlin alexanderplatz is an engrossing psychological portrait of franz biberkopf günter lamprecht a weimar era worker bee whose slow corrosion of self both parallels and paves the way for the impending rise of nazism.

Fassbinder s immersive epic follows the hulking childlike ex convict franz biberkopf günter lamprecht as he attempts to become an honest soul. While almost stoically ignoring all the demands of a plot he sets out to circle around singular human conditions to penetrate them and to bring forth a reflexive referring back to the subject truthfulness that shows. The criterion collection s original 7 disc dvd edition of rainer werner fassbinder s 15 hour series berlin alexanderplatz presents the film in the aspect ratio of 1 33 1 over the first six dual layer discs. The operatic account of berlin in the 1920 s a city in transformation and it s people in social upheaval.

Subversive period pieces such as the postwar set the marriage of maria braun and the weimar era epic berlin alexanderplatz. With this fassbinder establishes a method that marks berlin alexanderplatz to a greater degree than any of his other works. Fassbinder who died at age 36 before berlin alexanderplatz was released theatrically in america found in döblin s story something akin to the running theme of despair in his own prolific output of 40 movies. Rainer werner fassbinder s controversial fifteen hour berlin alexanderplatz based on alfred döblin s great modernist novel was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who at age thirty four had already made over thirty films.

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