Essential Cinema: WORLD ON A WIRE

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Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

West Germany, 1973, 1h 41min, 35mm, In German with English subtitles

Essential Cinema  WORLD ON A WIRE

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“No less than any other film of his career, it illustrates the radical will behind Fassbinder’s art.”
CINE-FILE

“A wildly sardonic sense of visual and dramatic excitement…pure and ecstatic B-movie fun.”
The New Yorker

You would expect a glossy sci-fi epic directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder to be pretty weird, and you’d be right. WORLD ON A WIRE shows us Fassbinder the world-builder as he constructs a noir-ish, paranoid future in which reality itself is the enemy. Presented in two parts, the way it initially aired on German television. Screening in 35mm.

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