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The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

2 Episodes

Observations on Film Art No. 10

Professor Jeff Smith illustrates how Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deliberate blocking and tableau compositions accentuate the social divisions that crisscross his 1974 masterpiece.

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The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

2 Episodes

  • The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL
    12:26
    The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL
    Episode 1

    The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

    Episode 1

    Professor Jeff Smith illustrates how Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deliberate blocking and tableau compositions accentuate the social divisions that crisscross his 1974 masterpiece.

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
    1:33:20
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
    Episode 2

    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    Episode 2

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1974 • West Germany
    Starring Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin

    The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. A ...

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