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Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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Inspired by Fassbinder's way of working, the book was written in three months and largely consists of fragments and personal reflections. Penman, a music critic, describes how he in the 1980s had a similar relationship to Fassbinder's films as he had to albums by his favourite bands. The book
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as one of the 15 best books of 2023, calling it a work that provides "a proper sense of how one can really wallow in both Fassbinder's massive body of work and his personal mythology" and "a delightful, emotive and appropriately flashy ode".
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wrote that Fassbinder's and Penman's stories become intertwined, including their histories of drug use, and that Penman's scepticism to some of Fassbinder's films gives the book complexity.
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sketches Fassbinder's life story and context within the postwar German society and the
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is a book about the German filmmaker, writer and actor
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Index


Ian Penman
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN
978-1804270424
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ian Penman
Fitzcarraldo Editions
New German Cinema
The Guardian
Time Out
"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors: 450 glittering glimpses of a cult director"
The Daily Telegraph
"Jumpy and nasty and punky"
The Times Literary Supplement
"Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman – a freewheeling and insightful study of the film-maker's allure"
The Guardian
"The 15 best books of 2023"
Time Out
Fitzcarraldo Editions
MIT Press
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Filmography
Love Is Colder Than Death
Katzelmacher
Gods of the Plague

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