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Nina Simone Meets Fassbinder. Clip of the Day.

March 31, 2008 – 3:12 pm

The above montage of scenes from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, set to two songs by Nina Simone, was posted on Vinyl is Heavy by Stephen Boone. I’ll let him explain:
The idea is that Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is two films. The first is about two lovers dealing with the terrible, [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Clip of the Day, Foreign Films | Comments (0)

My Year of Fassbinder: Heaven & Fear

March 21, 2008 – 10:07 am

Fassbinder’s ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL and ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, the Douglas Sirk film that inspired it, sit right next to each other in alphabetical order on the Criterion shelf. I *had* to buy them both.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Editorial, Foreign Films | Comments (1)