FASSBINDER AND EUROPEAN CINEMA WED 23 SEP – FRI 4 DEC 2015 Rainer Werner Fassbinder ‘Katzelmacher’ Much has been written about Rainer Werner Fassbinder this year. 2015 would have seen him turn 70, but instead this icon of the New German Cinema movement died aged only 37. The year of his death - 1982 - signified the end of an era, yet not the end of Fassbinder’s enduring influence on filmmakers across the world. This film series at the Goethe-Institut London takes an eclectic look at Fassbinder’s legacy in European cinema. The pairing of five Fassbinder classics with films by directors from France, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and the UK is an invitation to discover thematic or formal affinities but also differences and transformations. From the shared sense of alienation in Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg to the highly stylised worlds inhabited exclusively by women in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy, the series covers a breadth of themes and human conditions - the most difficult of which Fassbinder was able to capture in his uniquely intrepid way. VENUE Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2PH TICKETS £3, free (Goethe-Institut language students and library members), booking essential BOOKING 020 7596 4000 or via Eventbrite INFORMATION www.goethe.de/london R.W. FASSBINDER: KATZELMACHER ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI: ATTENBERG WED 23 SEP 7PM TUE 29 SEP 7PM R.W. FASSBINDER: BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE OLIVIER ASSAYAS: IRMA VEP TUE 20 OCT 7PM THU 22 OCT 7PM R.W. FASSBINDER: PETER STRICKLAND: THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT FRI 6 NOV 7PM WED 4 NOV 7PM R.W. FASSBINDER: CHINESE ROULETTE BÉLA TARR: ALMANAC OF FALL WED 18 NOV 7PM FRI 20 NOV 7PM R.W. FASSBINDER: IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES: TO DIE LIKE A MAN TUE 1 DEC 7PM FRI 4 DEC 7PM PRESS CONTACT [email protected], 020 7596 4042, 0776 849 5011 .