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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
just finished watching (2nd time in my life) fassbinder's merchant of four seasons (sorry i don't know the german title).
it's great to be able to watch movies again. and the movie is great. sad and funny--very funny.
listening now to some criterion commentary linking him to dougas sirk. now i have to watch sirk for sure! i think i might have seen one or two, unaware of him.
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I like Merchant of Four Seasons a lot but I'm struggling to find anything very funny in it, although it's a while since I watched it.
And yeah, definitely check Sirk out, although I'm slightly at a loss as to why Fassbinder is so often described as being a very Sirkian filmmaker. All his interviews have him talking about what a huge influence he was but I just don't see it translated into the films themselves. A bit like when Tarantino goes on about his debt to Mario Bava. Cool but where is it in the actual films?