Ep. 55 Fassbinder Triple Feature

For what would’ve been the filmmaker’s 75th birthday, hosts John
Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg are joined by editor/producer
Eric Pfriender to discuss the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
They’ve each picked a film to discuss from the notoriously volatile
director, a Triple Feature of Fassbinder’s work that serves as a
jumping off point for exploring the legendarily prolific
filmmaker’s philosophies and obsessions. In Love is Colder than
Death, The Merchant of Four Seasons, and In a Year of 13 Moons, we
can see the themes that would repeat and repeat themselves
throughout his career: the disappointments of romantic love, the
instability of identity (specifically sexual identity), the
stresses and miseries of domestic life, the ironic way in which
unhappy people can be both victims of fate and injustice while at
the same time being the source of their own problems. The Pink
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Pinnland Empire.