Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film, based on Jean Genet’s novel, about a young sailor’s criminal and erotic escapades. By J. Hoberman Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ...

Cinephiles are known to get excitable every time The Criterion Collection—the taste-making film distributor—announces a new batch of films is joining its esteemed library. Directed by influential, ...

Of the 40 feature films Germany’s prolific bad boy helmed in his 13 year career, 4 present notably queer protagonists. In Part 1 I covered “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” and “Fox and his Friends ...

Frameline39: the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival will kick off in a few weeks at the city’s glorious Castro Theatre showcasing hundreds of new LGBT films along with one very special ...

If the title of Kevin Lambert’s Querelle of Roberval rings any bells, it should. It’s a direct homage to Jean Genet and his 1947 novel, Querelle of Brest – a work perhaps best known in the ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of Lili Marleen (1980) Photo: Museum of Modern Art, 1996 If Godard imagined film as truth at 24 frames a second, for Fassbinder it was one take at a time. Notorious ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema, was a filmmaker prolific to the point of being a workaholic. From 1969 to 1982 he directed over 40 ...

Queer cinema owes everything to a pair of dead French fags. Jean Cocteau bequeathed a vibrant neoclassicism to generations of homo sophisticates. You can feel his touch in the symbolist psychodramas ...