#world on a wire

[katharinehepburngf]

Japanese poster designs for films: THE SACRIFICE (1986, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky), WORLD ON A WIRE (1973, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder), NAKED LUNCH (1991, dir. David Cronenberg), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961, dir. Alain Resnais), HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959, dir, Alain Resnais), FACES PLACES (2017, dir. Agnès Varda, JR), FANTASTIC PLANET (1971, dir. René Laloux) and LOST LOVERS (1971, dir. Sôichirô Tahara, Kunio Shimizu).

#the sacrifice #andrei tarkovsky #world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #naked lunch #david cronenberg #last year at marienbad #hiroshima mon amour #alain resnais #faces places #agnes varda #fantastic planet #rene laloux #lost lovers #soichiro tahara #kunio shimizu #film #film poster #poster design

[pierppasolini]

Welt am Draht (1973) // dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#Karl-Heinz Vosgerau #Barbara Valentin #Klaus Löwitsch #Welt am Draht #World on a Wire #Rainer Werner Fassbinder #my caps #my edits #*worldonawire

[falsenote]

World on a Wire (1973)

#world on a wire #Welt am Draht #rainer werner fassbinder #klaus löwitsch #mine

[shihlun]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

- World on a Wire

1973

#world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #mirror #german film #sci fi #welt am draht #film

[c-schroed]

Now Is the Perfect Time to Watch Some Movies Set in 2024

Now that we've made it to the new year, why not enjoy some old visions of it? I at least love to start the first few weeks of a year by going through the films set in the new year, as listed marvellously by Wikipedia.

Because I'm interested in old visions of the now-present, I usually skip movies that were produced in the last ten years. Because these usually don't provide very bold predictions. This criterion leaves the following seven entries for a Get Ready for '24 watchlist:

Beyond the Time Barrier. A 1960 time travel flick. Never heard of it. A quick look at the plot reminds me of Return to the Planet of the Apes. Which I kinda liked for its batshit abstrusity. Anyway, the movie is short and exactly what I'm looking for. So I'll definitely try to somehow get my hands on it.

A Boy and His Dog. This 1975 movie likely is the most notorious of this list. Not sure how well the film has aged, but it has been loitering on my to do list for years now, so the stars are aligned as good as never before.

Highlander II: The Quickening. Very likely to be the worst movie of this list. Haven't seen it yet, I think (or I forgot it after watching). And I haven't heard anything good of it, but at least it tells a story related to climate change. Which is better than nothing, I guess.

The Thirteenth Floor. I absolutely l o v e the German TV movie "World on a Wire", and Thirteenth Floor is a remake of this. I watched it once, but before seeing World on a Wire. So although Thirteenth Floor has only on small bit of its plot actually taking place in 2024, I really look forward to a rewatch of this 1999 production.

.hack//The Movie. A 2011 CGI anime movie. Never heard of it, but why not.

Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars. I remember liking the first Underworld movie, and I don't recall much of the other four films. So I think I'll use the final two installments playing in 2024 as an excuse for a rewatch of the whole series.

Narcopolis. This is a 2015 movie, so my Older Than Ten Years rule technically disqualifies this entry. But I'm quite intrigued by the story of a UK that has all drugs legalized. So I'll give it a watch.

#and happy new year y'all! #to do 2024 #movie recommendation #films set in 2024 #beyond the time barrier #a boy and his dog #highlander 2 #the thirteenth floor #world on a wire #.hack//the movie #underworld #underworld evolution #underworld rise of the lycans #underworld awakening #underworld blood wars #narcopolis #schroed's thoughts

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Welt am Draht (World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1973)

#welt am draht #world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #1973 #70s #german #forest #arson #animal death #dog tag #arborous

[kinghazycrazies]

Everyone wishing for a tranquility base movie really needs to watch the German miniseries World on a Wire. It’s from the 70s and the visuals really inspired tbhc’s style. Alex has mentioned it a few times.

Imo the story is great and the whole series has a kind of eerie energy that really reflects tbhc perfectly.

#it’s only available online via criterion channel but yo ho yo ho am I right #arctic monkeys #tranquility base hotel & casino #tranquility base hotel and casino #tbhc #world on a wire #welt am draht #rainer werner fassbinder

[neoyan]

#图集 #Welt am Draht #Rainer Werner Fassbinder #World On a Wire

[werkboileddown]

#world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #charlie fox #this young monster

[byneddiedingo]

World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)

Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günther Lamprecht, Uili Lommel, Adrian Hoven, Ivan Desny, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John. Screenplay: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on a novel by Daniel F. Galouye. Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus, Ulrich Prinz. Production design: Horst Giese, Walter Koch, Kurt Raab. Film editing: Ursula Elles, Marie Anne Gerhardt. Music: Gottfried Hüngsberg.

What we call "reality" is, as we all know, a construct, the product of the limitations of our senses. But what if we, too, are part of the construct, put here by some other entity and blinded to the reality that lies beyond the senses? That way lies religion -- "Now we see through a glass darkly...." -- and metaphysics -- now largely dismissed as "asking unanswerable questions" -- but also science fiction. Witness the popularity of a film like The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1999) and its sequels. In fact, Rainer Werner Fassbinder got there more than two decades before the Wachowskis. In 1973 he created a two-part television series, World on a Wire, that aired in Germany, and then became a kind of cult hit via file-sharing on the internet before being restored in 2010 and screened at the Berlin Film Festival. In it, a German research institute has created a simulated world in its supercomputer. The inhabitants of this world have been given consciousness, but only one of them has knowledge of the world outside the computer. He serves as a contact between the programmers and the simulated beings. But then the sudden death of the head of the program puts his second-in-command, Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), in charge of investigating not only the death of his predecessor but also the suicide of one of the simulated beings. Stranger and stranger things begin to happen, until Stiller learns that he is also a simulation in his own simulated world. He also learns that the institute's simulated world is being used for commercial purposes, something that violates its agreement with the government funding it. As he comes to terms with this knowledge, his increasingly erratic behavior makes him a target for assassins, and his one hope is to find the contact with the level above that's simulating him. Got that? The head-spinning premise of the film comes from a novel, Simulacron-3, by the American writer Daniel F. Galouye, adapted by Fassbinder and Fritz Müller-Scherz. Fassbinder gives it a good deal of his characteristic style in the adaptation: The women in Stiller's world, for example, always wear cocktail dresses, even at work, and rooms are filled with mirrors to suggest the layers of reflected reality in the three levels. It was filmed in 16 mm for television, which means there's some graininess and focus problems in parts of the restored film, but the cinematography is by Fassbinder's frequent collaborator Michael Ballhaus, along with Ulrich Prinz. Löwitsch is very good as Stiller, taking on a kind of James Bondian role, and the paranoid atmosphere prevails even when the plot gets a bit snarled in its own premise.

#World on a Wire #Rainer Werner Fassbinder

[getlonely]

#world on a wire #film

[pierppasolini]

Welt am Draht (1973) // dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#Welt am Draht #World on a Wire #Rainer Werner Fassbinder #my caps #my edits #*worldonawire

[falsenote]

World on a Wire (1973)

#yea #world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #margit carstensen #klaus löwitsch #Welt am Draht #mine

[queenoliviastredfern]

Welt Am Draht/World on a Wire (1973)

#world on a wire #welt am draht

[van-bugtopia]

World on a Wire (1973) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #film #film stills #1973

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Welt am Draht (World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1973)

#welt am draht #world on a wire #rainer werner fassbinder #1973 #70s #german #mascha rabben #veil