Four by Rosenbaum on Fassbinder

Image from Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant/The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1972)

In case you missed this, Film Studies For Free wanted you to know that, in the last two months, Jonathan Rosenbaum has been episodically publishing at his website a series of four essays that he wrote last year about various Rainer Werner Fassbinder films for Madman, the Australian DVD label. Like everything else at the site, these essays are really worth reading, so below are the direct links, and below them, you can find a short video clip from one of the films, Katzelmacher:

• Mise en Scène as Power Struggle: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (June 4, 2009)
• MARTHA: Fassbinder’s Uneasy Testament (June 18, 2009)
• Rediscovering ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (July 29, 2009)
• The Example of KATZELMACHER (August 27 2009)