Although the following
argument could be made in reference to Ingmar Bergman, for my money if ever there
was a filmmaker who got over on the basis of writing it was Rainer Werner
Fassbinder. Dying at the young age of thirty-seven, the wunderkind and enfant
terrible of New German Cinema managed to more prolific than most with twice the
lifetime, completing no less than forty feature films. Not only did he have a
wildly frenetic pace, churning out screenplays like an assembly line, most
importantly, he had a deep, rich understanding of people and a sensitivity
towards social outsiders, making for stark, often harsh, but also beautiful and
rather poignant cinematic stories.
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