Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977

Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up to this point, and discusses a potential new phase in his career, as represented by his then-current project, “Despair”. This documentary also features clips from a few Fassbinder films, especially “Beware of a Holy Whore”, and gives us some behind-the-scenes glimpses at the shooting of “Despair”. Overall, essential viewing for fans, with a lot of insight into what Fassbinder accomplished, and what could have been had he lived on. —IMDb