Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

March 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 60

Total Comments: 32

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Fox & His Friends / Faustrecht der Freiheit / Germany / 1976

Fassbinder’s statement about class division within a community of gays in Germany, circa 1976. I must admit that I saw the fate of the hapless Franz Bieberkopf, a.k.a., “Fox”, played by Fassbinder, a naïve carnival worker (“lottery queen”) who hooks up with a bourgeois aesthete, immediately. The subsequent playing out of the drama didn’t reveal anything more than what one would expect with such a scenario, though the honesty with which Fassbinder portrays Fox is refreshing and admirable. The title is certainly a cynical poke at the lack of meaningful relationships found in the pre-AIDS gay community of that time. It’s worth a viewing.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: Fox Lorber DVD
10 Mar 2007 2:49 PM | Submit Comment

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