It is a slow week in the world of Key Art, so I am going back and pilfering from MUBI who pointed this one out last friday. This classically designed poster was made for the re-release of R.W. Fassbinder’s 1973 TV-mini World on a Wire; a film which is Cyberpunk at its absolute earliest. Toronto folks can catch this at Lightbox on a restored 35mm print in mid-June.
I’ve yet to see a Fassbinder film. I don’t know where to start. Any suggestions?
Jandy, my favourites so far have been “The Marriage Of Maria Braun” and “Ali: Fear Eats The Soul”. “Lola” is excellent as well. I really want to see Berlin Alexanderplatz one day…
I actually bought the region 2 DVD for World On A Wire a few months ago, so I’m going to try to dive into it in the next few days. That poster is pretty terrific.
Poster is stunning. I am less interested in the film, have only seen Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, but from that one one film I am not much interested in Fassbinder.
Fassbinder is another of those guys who I am fascinated by, but definitely need to see more of his work. I enjoyed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as well as the odd, Godardian odyssey The Niklashausen Journey.
The above poster’s smashing, and I’m definitely intrigued by the film itself.
I’m very interested in seeing this movie. However, I hate this poster. It reminds me of james bond and those are ALL shit films.
That’s precisely why I love the poster! Although I love Bond films – even the shitty ones have their charms to me.
I just watched the first 15 minutes of this and my head is about to explode from the fabulous set designs. There’s a bit of Alphaville at work here (though so far in much more interesting way), it looks a bit like a Bava film and one scene even reminded me of something from Blazing Saddles (even though I realize Brooks’ film was from a year later and they were both fashioning their scenes off much older material).
Don’t think I can squeeze the rest of its 3 and a half hour run tim ein tonight, but I’m gonna try…
Finished watching World On A Wire tonight. I mostly thought it was great from a style point of view (best consistent use of mirrors ever) and how it ran with its concept (especially back in 73). It bogs down a bit, isn’t served overly well by the re-recording of character audio after the fact and doesn’t fully exploit the “I think therefore I am” premise (at least not beyond its central character), but I really enjoyed it…
Gil, this is most definitely NOT James Bond.
Also, I made a good call on the Alphaville comparison – Eddie Constantine suddenly showed up as a nameless character in the last 30 minutes of the film.
At one point, Bob, I should borrow your DVD, I’m curious to see this either way.
Kurt, are you still going to Days Of Heaven on Saturday? If so, I’ll bring it. I think you’ll like it…
I’m hoping to be at that DAYS OF HEAVEN screening, Yes.