New 2k digital restoration by the rainer werner fassbinder foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack eight hours dont make a day. Its taken me since my birthday last october, when i received the beautiful arrow dvdblu ray boxset as a gift, but i have finally concluded my viewing of rainer werner fassbinders groundbreaking 1972 family series eight hours dont mak e a day. Acht stunden sind kein tag also translated as eight hours are not a day is a west german television miniseries written and directed by rainer werner fassbinder. This is a threepart film, presented over three days. Rainer werner fassbinders eight hours dont make a day on criterion bluray. Eight hours dont make a day series austin film society.
Siffs mission is to create experiences that bring people together to discover extraordinary films from around the world. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. To do justice to eight hours dont make a day in this space would be impossible, so it will have to suffice to say that its emergence represents nothing less than the discovery of a vital missing link in the directors filmography, one that may represent fassbinders clearest vision of. When rainer werner fassbinder cheered up the german masters 1972 miniseries eight hours dont make a day shows ordinary people improving their lives by ben sachs. Eight hours dont make a day debuts in america at an imperiled time to remind audiences what real political filmmaking is. Iu cinema presents eight hours dont make a day on saturday, march 09, 2019 12. Eight hours dont make a day dual format arrow films.
Eight hours dont make a day 2018 seattle international film festival. Gottfried john and hanna schygulla in eight hours dont make a day, a fiveepisode series shown on west german tv in the 1970s. Presented in conjunction with the restoration of his series of tv films, eight hours dont make a day. Eight hours dont make a day germany1972directed by rainer werner fassbinder legendary german filmmaker rainer werner fassbinder 1945 1982 shook the cinema world, directing 44 movies in just 15 years. Theatrical trailer for rainer werner fassbinders eight hours dont make a day.
The ideal is to make films as beautiful as americas, but which at the same time shift the content to other areas. This multilayered, characterdriven saga centers on the kruger family along with their lovers, inlaws, and friends. It stands out in his filmography as not only his secondlongest effort, after berlin alexanderplatz 1980, but also his most empathetic. One of his most elusive works is eight hours dont make a day, a fivepart, nearly eight hour television series that was broadcast in 197273 and is only now getting a u. The restored eight hours dont make a day presents a. Rarely screened since its popular but controversial initial broadcast, eight hours dont make a day rates as a true discovery, one of fassbinders earliest and most.
Eight hours dont make a day 1972 the criterion collection. Just as grandma and jochen demonstrate how an uncomplicated credo and simple, determined actions can be subversive, eight hours dont make a day is a sort. With eight hours dont make a day, the 27yearold auteurs public reputation in germany transformed from that of a radical art film director to a prominent tv star. One of the major movies by germanys prolific auteur rainer werner fassbinder 19451982 was never distributed in americauntil now. Eight hours dont make a day chapter one denver film. Rainer werner fassbinders eight hours dont make a day. When he accidentally meets a young lady, marion,who has an office advertising job, while going out to get alcohol for a. Acht stunden sind kein tag eight hours dont make a day. Such filmmaking isnt a marvel movie or an oscar hopeful thats been dotted with talking points out of a politically fashionable think piece. In her feature in the mayjune issue, aliza ma tackles fassbinders recently restored and rediscovered eight hours dont make a day, the nearly eight hour series the auteur wrote and shot at a crucial moment in his career. Yet seeing them in the series eight hours dont make a day, which aired. Eight hours dont make a day acht stunden sind kein tag.
Recently restored, the warmly realized 1972 miniseries eight hours dont make a day marks a thrilling new peak in rainer werner fassbinders towering career. With gottfried john, hanna schygulla, luise ullrich, irm hermann. But the new restoration, from the original 16millimeter film, probably. Eight hours dont make a day, saturday, march 09, 2019 12. Eight hours dont make a day is typical of fassbinders style. Extensive documentation of world cinema at your fingertips. With the release in america of what may be the last patch of his legacy, eight hours dont make a day, fassbinder still surprises, elevates, thrills. Eight hours dont make a day detroit institute of arts. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Eight hours dont make a day rainer werner fassbinder, 1972, 495 min german with english subtitles a brilliantly layered chamber drama about an eccentric family and their economic and cultural environment, which functions as both trenchant social critique and populist entertainment. A series becomes a family reunion, a 2017 documentary directed by juliane lorenz, featuring interviews with actors hanna schygulla, irm hermann, wolfgang schenck, and hans hirschmuller new interview with film scholar jane shattuc. Click the link below to see what others say about eight hours dont make a day. Eight hours dont make a day is perhaps fassbinders most humanisteven approaching feelgoodwork. This series celebrates the prolific master of new german cinema and his razorsharp gaze at culture and society across genre and style.
Eight hours dont make a day is a sprawling, 8hour epic television series rooted in hollywood melodrama and. We are introduced to a middle class family, where one son, jochen, works in a tool factory and shares close comradeship with his colleagues. Eight hours dont make a day rainer werner fassbinder germany, 1972 commissioned to make a workingclass family drama, upandcoming director rainer werner fassbinder took the assignment and ran, upending expectations by depicting social realities in west germany from a criticalyet far from cynicalperspective. Eight hours dont make a day 2018 seattle international. A vital missing link in a brilliant artists oeuvre, the series reaffirms the most resonant ongoing assertion of fassbinders career.
Commissioned by westdeutscher rundfunk, it was broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973. An upbeat rainer werner fassbinder the german wunderkinds fivepart television work from 1972 makes room for. Eight hours dont make a day tv miniseries 1972 imdb. This is eight hours dont make a day trailer by janus films on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Rainer werner fassbinders rare tv series the new yorker. Eight hours dont make a day gene siskel film center.
The politics of eight hours dont make a day duration. Made for german tv, eight hours dont make a day is a fiveepisode, eight hour miniseries total 472 min. Written and directed by rainer werner fassbinder written and directed by rainer. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing eight hours dont make a day part one near you. Why eight hours dont make a day is fassbinders true. Meticulously deconstructing the superficially utopic atmosphere so prevalent in postwar film productions of the time, fassbinder observes life from three generations of the same family whose political persuasions range from conservative to progressive. Eight hours dont make a day 1972 directed by rainer. Film the restored eight hours dont make a day presents a rare thing. Rainer werner fassbinder commissioned to make a workingclass family drama, upandcoming director rainer werner fassbinder took the assignment and ran, upending expectations by depicting social realities in west germany from a critical. Eight hours dont make a day chapter five denver film. Film forum fassbinders eight hours dont make a day.
Home of siff cinema, seattle international film festival, and siff education. In german with english subtitles janus films the astonishingly prolific rainer werner fassbinder 19451982 directed over 40 movies in 15 years. Fassbinder had invented some rather oddball characters for eight hours dont make a day, such as the old couple, grandma and grandpa, who still. This episode of the podcast makes the case that it hasin 1970s germany, courtesy of the one and only r. In the film, fassbinder blends kitchensink realism with. Contrary to fassbinders practice of overseeing the making of his own films, the wdr took over responsibility for the entire production of eight hours dont make a day. Upon rejection to the berlin film school, fassbinder joined the action. A complete surprise funnier, more humane and more optimistic than. Commissioned to make a workingclass family drama for public television, upandcoming director rainer werner fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in west germany from a criticalyet far from cynicalperspective. Eight hours dont make a day rates as a true discovery, one of fassbinders. Now eight hours dont make a day, a fiveepisode series shown on west german television in 1972 and 1973, arrives at film forum, where its screening in three chunks.
Eight hours dont make a day is one of those seriesa fivepart miniseries that was shown on west german televisions in 1972 and 1973. Eight hours dont make a day plays at film forum from march 14 to 27. Fassbinders drama follows a young couple falling in love in west germany. There were first he lederhosen and heimatfilms, later those. Fassbinders eight hours dont make a day berlin film.
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