Straight from the heart: re-viewing the films of Rainer Werner Fasbinder.(Critical Essay)

From the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, the arrival of a new Fassbinder movie was an event. And with the release of The Marriage of Maria Braun in 1978--the first New German film to achieve worldwide box-office success--Fassbinder's international reputation was secured. While there were other important West German filmmakers, it was Rainer Werner Fassbinder who put the New German Cinema on the map--and with his death in 1982, virtually erased it. In the twenty years since, nothing comparable to Fassbinder's brief but galvanizing engagement with cinema has emerged in Germany. F