Life, Love & Celluloid

Filmmaker Juliane Lorenz’s fascinating exploration of Fassbinder’s life and work, in which she interviews people who knew, worked with, and had been closely involved with him, as well as cinema scholars, in New York, Los Angeles, and Germany. Although no film clips are included, she offers staged scenes (in English) from several of his plays, plus the mesmerizing Hanna Schygulla singing excerpts from her cabaret act inspired by Fassbinder’s films. —jclarkmedia.com