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MM25: It’s a Miserable Life - The Films of RW Fassbinder

🕑 Added 2024-06-19 11:00:12 +0000 UTC

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Kelley Schei

Adam brings absolutely nothing.

EaZy E

This episode fucked me up. Something resonated with me thinking of PKD. Definitely giving this a relisten when I have time.

awwwwwwww

Suicide is the band, the song is Frankie Teardrop

Morgan Roeser

Who is Suicide by?

Seb

Wanted to shout out Fassbinder’s excellent sci-fi film World on a Wire in here to those digging in to his filmography.

Justice Hainsworth

I disagree that Michael Haneke is totally humorless, Benny’s Video is one of the funniest movies of all time, and The Piano Teacher has the scene of Isabelle Hupert pissing next to a couple making out in a car.

Donelle Thomas

Wow, the racist Germans accusing Arab men of being lazy rapists, is this movie set in 2024!? Disgusting that a European colonial power (NATO is neocolonial) in 2024 still thinks the same thing about proud Arab & Muslim people.

Mark Schneider

I am so glad that despite my last name, I ended up more influenced by the Irish & Spanish genes from my family. My siblings are both true Germans, & thus miserable. My sis is a soulless former yuppie, my brother is far worse, a self-hating drug addict who loves Joe Biden & all the shit-lib wars (despite or because of being bullied by everyone growing up? I really can't say) who is obsessed with killing dirty Russkies & shouting down anyone who can't agree with his Black/White view of reality . . . He lost the only half-decent job he ever had by threatening to murder a MAGA CHUD co-worker who had fun trolling him, but acts like the worst MAGAts if you don't endorse & support his every sad delusions.

lunchables

I’m dating a guy whos friends don’t like me and this episode made me feel a lot better

Justin

Too many normies found out about it

Antipaganda

Hopefully next to be deeply analysed on Movie Mindset: The music video for Knights Of Cydonia

Antipaganda

Wait, what's wrong with Every Frame A Painting now?

Extended Clip

Thank you for the lovely comments. This was a blast to record

Tim O'

I listen to a few different podcasts about movies, and none of them are talking about the kinds of movies that this show has been doing. Thank you for helping me be cultured 🤓

Alex

Earlier this year I went to a pretty packed screening of 13 Moons, and I really don’t think half the audience knew what they were in for. Absolute silence as everyone filed out at the end. Probably the best Movie Mindset episode yet. Let’s get us some Chantal Akerman slop next!

Chris

Eddie was a terrific guest, he brought the insight and the laughs in equal measure

Stephen David Miller

As someone who listens to a ton of film podcasts, this is one of the most thoughtful discussions of a filmmaker I’ve heard in a long time. Hesse has clearly spent a long time thinking about RWF, and it fucking shows. Probably my favorite Movie Mindset so far.

Chris T

Take it easy, Shakespeare

Alexander Fuchs

couldve mentioned that all those "sad and fucked up" things being said in 13 moons are quotes from schopenhauer

Alexander Fuchs

watch 8 hours dont make a day

Alexander Fuchs

thats slandering Lola but whatever ... crazy how many elements of production fassbinder handled in 13 moons i think he got like 6 or 7 credits

Alexander Fuchs

obviously both emmi and elvira are supposed to represent fassbinder ... with ali and the guy in 13 moons possibly also representing fassbinder ... and of couse almost every other character also representing fassbinder

Eric Herde

On the first movie, when one of you mentioned that Germans don’t see Arabs as people, I thought this was a movie that just came out this year.

Fr0id

I’ve literally re-upped just for movie mindset. Please continue this immaculate content and the more movie stuff you do the better.

Ekaterina Sedia

Not if they insist on pronouncing “Fassbinder” that way

Ekaterina Sedia

Hesse is absolutely correct about In A Year With 13 Moons being the best Fassbinder film!

Rohmer Simpson

I just want to say, Hesse, Will, your excellent guest Eddie - this is maybe the best MM episode, and I've liked them all. I tend to be partial to the ones that cover my favorite films, like the Hawks eps, but I was driving around today, slinging deliveries in my lil midwest town, just completely rapt and deeply moved especially by Hesse's commentary, especially concerning 13 MOONS. Sometimes, Hesse you will make an offhand remark that suggests you think you're rambling - and as someone with incurable mic fright, I deeply identify with that - but I couldn't disagree more. Fassbinder's body of work is almost impossibly layered in such a way that, to do them justice, you're compelled to talk about concepts and abstractions that are so slippery that you almost HAVE to ramble. All these shifting perspectives, these spaces that are claustrophobic and/or comforting, characters having feelings about feelings ABOUT feelings. IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS is, obviously, not a film you can just throw on and chill with, but you all really made it come to life in this MM episode. And that's all any of us can ask for, out in Chapo movieland.

Bradlei Smith

Dr. Caligari mentioned

Nicole Veneto

Open up your FassBINDERS to today’s lesson.

Rohmer Simpson

Chapo isn't allowed to discuss politics anymore because of woke

Dogface Reilly

I signed up for Chapo, not movie mindset. I guess there isn’t any political content to discuss anymore?

Fingerless

happiest german man

Michael S. Judge

I think the comedic bit at the end of 13 MOONS is something every would-be suicide has thought about: there is a pure stupid hilarity to the fact that if you take enough pills, you cut your wrists right, you get the belt perfectly cinched around the doorknob – suddenly your body reverts to property of the state, it's a matter for the police, the doctors, and the recordkeepers, everything about the flesh-cage that made you need to die is suddenly a stupid, inert object that has to be cleaned up and scooped out and either dressed up like you're in a school play or shoved in an oven. None of it's "you" anymore, none of that has anything to do with you, and in a single instant you revert from the tragedy of a human life ending to a goofy fucking bureaucratic prop. And I think that's particularly important here, because the way I take the Anton arc isn't antisemitism (maybe Fassbinder did, I dunno), it's a deeply black-humored analogy for the way that the German state by the 1970s had managed to invert real history such that IT was the victim of the Nazis, IT was the poor helpless creature overcome by vicious brutes, GERMANY was the true subject of Hitlerian "trauma," and thus GERMANY was to be allowed whatever form its "grieving" and "healing" might require (like, say, creating the Gehlen Organization) – all at a time when, and I feel pretty confident Fassbinder would've been aware of this, there were more Nazis working in a number of West German government ministries than there were *during the Third Reich*.

Yeah but in my defense

Another great episode but please let your guests speak more.

Luna Zeidner

Thanks for introducing me to RWF. I found Ali really amazing and touching.

Alexander Fuchs

the 1982 golden lion film by wenders is "the state of things" ... for sure not an "accessible" movie and pretty damn good ... carne probably just wanted querelle to win bcs its a gay french book

Whucko Jaang

The late, great RW Fass-binder - Yuv hearda dis guy?

awwwwwwww

That slaughterhouse movie in question toward the end IS Hollis Frampton, Autumnal Equinox

Ian

Did we have a Pasolini episode last season?

Rohmer Simpson

Fassbinders Full of Women

Rohmer Simpson

Hesse never apologize! I can’t remember another podcast of any kind that ever gave Fassbinder his due, context-wise. Kudos on that. Fassbinder’s early films are cool but you could absolutely detect a “before he discovered Sirk” and “after” like that joke about how anyone can pinpoint the exact moment when David Gordon Green started smoking weed. (But in a good way.)

Sam Ray

What's the issue w/ Every Frame a Painting?

Ipota

I watched bitter tears of petra von kant recently!! it was so good im excited to watch these ones

Chase Padusniak

RW Fassbinder is as good as it gets. Don’t sleep on Satan’s Brew, Mother Küster’s Trip to Heaven, Berlin Alexanderplatz, or Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day. I wouldn’t say his politics are incoherent though. He’s just deeply critical of all existing political currents, as he was of himself.

Leebos

Whenever I see Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows," I'm charmed that it's Reagan's former Belles with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. Don't know what it means, but I like it.

Smooth Shrek

Once again I am demanding the Chapo coastal elite give the working man what he craves - Movie Mindset: Shrek! The proletariat demands to be acknowledged!

Matt Kimlinger

This a beautiful episode. Thank you.

Matthew Perpetua

if you return to Fassbinder for a later episode I'd love to hear Will and Hesse's response to Chinese Roulette, much more of a dark comedy

George Lochinski

One more plug for Third Generation as the ultimate dirtbag film

Here, Try This

Glad Merchant of the Four Seasons was brought up. That film is incredible

Brent

Masterful intro, Hesse. I’m signing up for your class

Anya Ciccone

You guys should think about doing Ozu next. It's no big surprise German filmmakers like wim wenders were so preoccupied with the way he responded to WW2.