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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
"Rainer Werner Fassbinder was simultaneously a maker of films and a man who 'played with people'; the forty-three films he directed before his early death at the age of thirty-seven in 1982 were products of a convoluted game of emotions between him and a close-knit group of versatile actors. He wielded astonishing power over his artists, but though he was an oppressor, he made passionate cinematic statements about liberty in such productions as The...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An overview of the recent history of gay and lesbian cinema, from Kenneth Anger's pioneering Fireworks (1947) to Ang Lee's Brokeback mountain (2005). Where documentaries about earlier times looked at the closeted world, "Fabulous!" celebrates films featuring gay characters and those made by out directors on homosexual themes.