New York filmgoers: do not miss...

...Fassbinder's amazing 1973 World on Wire, now at the IFC Center. Richard Brody exults on it here; I exulted on it on this blog last year. I may exult on it further soon; I've had a notion about the film's use of the Fleetwood Mac song "Albatross" nagging me for a while. In any event the film is simply unbelievably undeniably great. So go if you can. 

Comments

[bill]

I thought the closing credits music, used in both parts, was reminiscent of the opening section of "Sun King" by the Beatles. But anyway, yes, everyone, it's a great film.

[preston]

I saw it on Friday and couldn't agree more! An amazing piece of work! And the sound cues!!!

[David Ehrenstein]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ombnqWR3eA

[David Ehrenstein]

Not to mention --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PJix23IeF8

[Davin]

It's available on Hulu Plus as well - not the same as the theater, of course, but for those of us in flyover country it will have to do until the (hopeful) eventual Criterion release

[brian]

Like the Pere Ubu reference in the earlier post.

[B rian Dauth]

As Glenn said, WORLD ON WIRE was the North American movie event of last year, and its commercial release might be the North American movie event of the year so far. I admit to having no perspective on Fassbinder: I discovered him as a teenage queerboi at the New Yorker Theater and his movies changed my life. How could I not love a filmmaker who has one of his characters pay alimony to Joseph Mankiewicz?