Fassbinder

[fahs-bin-der]

noun

1. Rainer Werner 1946–82, German film actor and director.

Fassbinder

/ ˈfasbɪndər /

noun

1. Rainer Werner (ˈrainər ˈvɛrnər). 1946–82, West German film director. His films include The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)

Example Sentences

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film "Germany in Autumn," a character explains German acceptance of Nazi rule: “Sometimes, people just want somebody to think for them.”

From Salon

He revisited miniseries such as Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 six-part series “Scenes From a Marriage,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1980 14-part series “Berlin Alexanderplatz” and the more recent “Li’l Quinquin,” Bruno Dumont’s 2014 film that was released as a four-part miniseries, where each of the renowned directors told a longer-format story but still retained the integrity of a singular artistic voice throughout.

From Los Angeles Times

From 2012 to 2018, he worked at a frantic pace that recalled the relentless productivity of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who made over 40 films before his death at 37.

From New York Times

Yorgos really likes the Rainer Werner Fassbinder films where the dolly moves and it zooms in and out.

From Los Angeles Times

For Haynes, those early favorites, the ones he returns to, include Alan J. Pakula‘s pitch-black ’70s conspiracy thrillers, the elliptically edited mysteries of director Nicolas Roeg and, when he got a little older, the impulsively sexual dramas of Germany’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder, whose “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” plays like an older cousin to “May December.”

From Los Angeles Times