Capital Celluloid 2022 — Day 170: Tue Jun 21

Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, 1971): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.10pm


This screening is part of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder season at the Prince Charles. Full details here. The film is also being shown on June 23rd. Here is the link with all the information.

Chicago Reader review:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 film about a movie crew trapped in a Spanish seaside hotel, waiting first for the star (Eddie Constantine) to arrive and then for the director (Lou Castel) to find his inspiration. This edgy, violent, impacted movie was based on incidents that occurred during the shooting of Fassbinder’s Whity, and survivors claim that it more or less accurately records the paranoia and desperate needfulness that reigned on Fassbinder’s sets. It was also the last film of his ragged avant-gardist period; with the subsequent Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, he moved into an emulation of a Hollywood director’s distance and control. With Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel, and Magdalena Montezuma.
Dave Kehr 

Here (and above) is an extract.

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