Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

27 prints

Fassbinder's cinema is one of deliberate artifice. His melodramas use the heightened palette of Douglas Sirk's Hollywood films as both homage and critique. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul's amber Munich interiors, The Marriage of Maria Braun's postwar German warmth, In a Year of Thirteen Moons' neon-and-shadow Frankfurt. He understood that Sirk's beautiful colors were always a prison.