• i like exploitation, horror, old hollywood, and giant monsters
• january favs: fantasy films ✨
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972
the claustrophobia, the obsession, the bitter loneliness, the music, the framing, the hair, the makeup, the outfits, the tears. it’s all so good. i absolutely adore movies that take place in one location, i think they really show a good writer from a bad writer. and fassbinder is an EXCELLENT writer. how can a movie be this good. how can a director be this good. 40+ movies in like 13 years ???? and most of them are probably good to fantastic ??? obsessed
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Fox and His Friends 1975
Fox is maybe one of the most empathetically flawed characters i’ve seen in recent memory, and one that I felt immediate connection to. Fassbinder is not only great as a lead but he, like always, frames everything so beautifully. I don’t know what else to say about this, my brain is kinda pulling blanks. But I think it’s absolutely fantastic.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
Rainer Werner Fassbinder made an anti capitalist All That Heaven Allows for me and me alone!!!
The framing in this movie makes me wanna scream it’s so fucking good, and the camera work is just, like all Fassbinder movies, unreal.
One thing I’ve noticed about his adaptions is that they don’t even feel like adaptions. It’s like he took in the original media, dreamt about it, and then made a movie based off that. It’s such a beautiful echoing of my…
