Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the eternal enfant terrible of the New German Cinema. With a colossal body of work to his name when he died at only 37, he was a formidable creative force—there was no one quite like him. Imbued with an anarchic yet romantic spirit, his fulgurant films revel in love’s pains and pleasures, and attest, at the same time, to the sociopolitical disorder of...