Last night, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation sent word that Swiss actress Annemarie Düringer passed away on November 26, her 89th birthday. "It was while playing the lead role in the short film Bourbon Street Blues directed by Douglas Sirk with students at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1977 that Düringer met Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She later played Cilly in Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Dr. Marianne Katz in Veronika Voss." Düringer was primarily known for her work with the Burgtheater in Vienna, but cinephiles will appreciate her recent performances in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt and Margarethe von Trotta's Vision. » - David Hudson...
- 12/9/2014
- Keyframe
Last night, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation sent word that Swiss actress Annemarie Düringer passed away on November 26, her 89th birthday. "It was while playing the lead role in the short film Bourbon Street Blues directed by Douglas Sirk with students at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1977 that Düringer met Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She later played Cilly in Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Dr. Marianne Katz in Veronika Voss." Düringer was primarily known for her work with the Burgtheater in Vienna, but cinephiles will appreciate her recent performances in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt and Margarethe von Trotta's Vision. » - David Hudson...
- 12/9/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In 1959 Douglas Sirk left Hollywood and never turned back, effectively ending his three decade long career. He eventually returned to Germany, the place he was born, and at a certain point started teaching at a film school in Munich. It was at this film school, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, where he directed a couple of short films with his students. It’s the last of those films, “Bourbon Street Blues,” that’s recently been unearthed and you can view the 25-minute short in its entirety below. What is, perhaps, most notable about “Bourbon Street Blues” is the appearance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder who plays a resident in the building where the film is set. The short follows a woman living in a run-down apartment who’s being chided by her landlady for failing to pay rent. While it’s a much darker film, aesthetically, than what we’re used to from Sirk,...
- 9/24/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
News.
One of our favorite journals has begun to unveil its fourth edition ("Walks"): Lola. Online now are a handful of pieces comprising a dossier on Brian De Palma. More articles are on the way! The Seventh Art, in addition to releasing their latest issue (which features interviews with Christopher Doyle and Xavier Dolan among others), have started up a subscription service for premium access to lengthy interviews. We don't usually draw attention to the Criterion Collection's release schedule because it is so consistently awesome, but perhaps this set, amidst a jam-packed December slate, is particularly notable:
Finds.
You may have noticed the incredible crop of short films in "Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded", a project commissioned by the Biennale in celebration of its 70th year wherein "70 movie directors from all over the world have been invited to make a short film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds, in total creative freedom." For our "Finds" section this week,...
One of our favorite journals has begun to unveil its fourth edition ("Walks"): Lola. Online now are a handful of pieces comprising a dossier on Brian De Palma. More articles are on the way! The Seventh Art, in addition to releasing their latest issue (which features interviews with Christopher Doyle and Xavier Dolan among others), have started up a subscription service for premium access to lengthy interviews. We don't usually draw attention to the Criterion Collection's release schedule because it is so consistently awesome, but perhaps this set, amidst a jam-packed December slate, is particularly notable:
Finds.
You may have noticed the incredible crop of short films in "Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded", a project commissioned by the Biennale in celebration of its 70th year wherein "70 movie directors from all over the world have been invited to make a short film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds, in total creative freedom." For our "Finds" section this week,...
- 9/18/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
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