Love is Colder Than Death
May 31st, 2010
Love is colder than death -supermarket
Fassbinder 
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We Still Miss Him – Rainer Werner Fassbinder would Have Been 65 on May 31
Prodigy. Radical. Fatalist. Subversive. Visionary. Genius
Fassbinder described his childhood as lonely, and – to give his mother time to work – he frequented the movies, seeing as many as four pictures a day.
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Wim Wenders provides commentary for this DVD)
Fassbinder’s famous career and infamous life both came to an end in 1982 when he was 37 years old. By then, his films were seen as clearly belonging to two distinct periods – before and after the year 1971, when he made The Merchant of Four Seasons. The crucial turning point came that year when he encountered a retrospective of Douglas Sirk films in Munich, an event that was to transform both Fassbinder’s thinking about cinema and the nature of his films.
Th dance sequence by Francois Ozon – Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes is a youtube hit. (Water Drops on Burning Rocks is based on a play by Fassbinder)
Alida Valli was born on May 31 1921 – 24 years older than Fassbinder
Howard Hawks was born on May 30 1896, – straight unpretentious stuff, he told the stories wryly and drily.
This is funny – women in Hawk’s films
Hawks talks about Red River and Rio Bravo (English with French subtitle)
R.I.P Dennis Hopper
Two poetry readings by Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper reciting poem at Johnny Cash show
Dennis Hopper reciting beatnik poem
Happy birthday Agnes Varda 30 May 1928, she is 82 years old.
See her here at Cannes and congratulations for the lifetime achievement award.
