Palmströms Log

Ph. Juergen Teller

Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero (“Sparviero” is the Italian word for “Sparrowhawk”) bomber aircraft over North Africa in WWII

robert giusti in blue book - brad benedict (1983)

Bridgehampton, NY, 1978. Joe Maloney.

Martin Parr

Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet - 1769 - via Internet Archive

altoids tin wallets

His tumblr.

Michael Friedel, R.W.F. beim Drehbuch schreiben vormittags in einem Café, 1970.

Born on this day: inspired, despairing and uncompromising director, playwright, actor and turbulent New German cinema visionary, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) – a true titan of European art cinema. Expressions like “wunderkind,” “monstre sacré” and “enfant terrible” are all applicable here. All these decades later, his best films (off the top of my head, my favourites include Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Martha (1974), Fear of Fear (1975), Fox and His Friends (1975), In a Year of 13 Moons (1978), Veronika Voss (1982) and Querelle (1982)) still sting like a slap across the face. Fassbinder also elicited career-best performances from the crème de la crème of German actresses like Brigitte Mira, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Ingrid Caven, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Valentin, Rosel Zech, Barbara Sukowa and Christiane Maybach. “Fassbinder had the reputation of being quite difficult to deal with in real life, but anyone who made as many films as his years on earth (especially if they’re all good) deserves the privilege of being a true monster,” John Waters concludes in his 1987 book Crackpot. “If Fassbinder ever got any sleep, maybe his genius would have evaporated.

By Joseph Häxan.