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The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul • 12m

Professor Jeff Smith illustrates how Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deliberate blocking and tableau compositions accentuate the social divisions that crisscross his 1974 masterpiece.

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    In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote: “I had already used the story [of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL] in a film once. It was actually in THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, where it was told by a chambermaid in a long sequence where the girl sits on a bed.” That sequence, featuring actor Margarethe von...

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