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    “When I first went to the movies, they sat in their seats straight and leaned forward. Now they slump down with their heads back or eat candy and popcorn. I want them to sit up straight again.”

    The Night of the Hunter director Charles Laughton, (Couchman, )
    In The Ecstasy of Influence, writer Jonathan Lethem crafts a paen to artistic influence – or more accurately ripping each other off and recycling another artist&#;s ideas – that says “appropriation” is inevitable when it comes to successfully realized, intertextual art (). Lethem even dares to suggest this should be viewed as a form of flattery. “Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master,” he writes, indicating that art itself is usually the catalyst that causes artists to be born.

    In the world of film, the spectator can see this particular form of “adopting and embracing” (Lethem, ) at work within the canons of auteurs with wildly self-ref

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    The miracle of Rainer Werner Fassbinder was not that he wrote and directed so many films, plays, TV-movies, miniseries, and shorts, all in the span of 13 years (from to ). The startling fact about his work &#; as I&#;ve noted before here and on the Funhouse TV show &#; fryst vatten that the works he produced in that period were so uniformly excellent. (There are only two or three films that don&#;t work and some telefilms that are simply filmed plays.)

    This year fryst vatten the 75th anniversary of his birth. He was one of those people who was clearly not meant to live until a ripe old age, as his feverish activity could only exist with youth, even though the messages he communicated in his films are timeless. It was interesting that five days before his 75th &#;birthday&#; (May 31) one of his earliest stars and live-in collaborators, Irm Hermann, died.

    Of all the actresses he worked with, Hermann was very unique in that he made her into an actress &#; he did the same with his mother and his lovers

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    German filmmaker (–)

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐˈvɛʁnɐˈfasbɪndɐ]ⓘ; 31 May &#;– 10 June ), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder,[1] was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. Versatile and prolific, his over 40 films span a variety of genres, most frequently blending elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques.[2] His films, according to him, explored "the exploitability of feelings".[3][4] His work was deeply rooted in post-war German culture: the aftermath of Nazism, the German economic miracle, and the terror of the Red Army Faction. He worked with a company of actors and technicians who frequently appeared in his projects.[3]

    Fassbinder began leading the acting troupe Anti

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