Monday, December 20, 2010

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Martha (1974)


This post, like so many of my favorite Fassbinder moments, is dedicated to Barbara Valentin and her incredible face. Whenever she pops up in one of his movies I do a little dance - I love looking at her. Her face is magic, and Fassbinder knows it and he saves her for moments where he wants that pop. I've expressed this before... but it does bear repeating.

Of course she's just one of many. I'm pretty much infatuated with all of Fassbinder's troupe. Just a few names that spring to mind - Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla. And then of course all of the swarthy, hot men... Fassbinder himself, Armin Meier - check out this extremely NSFW picture of Meier and then lose the rest of today unto it - El Hedi ben Salem, and Karl Scheydt being the swarthiest and hottest in my opinion. And yes, I think Fassbinder was sexy, don't look at me that way. None of them are the usual pretty boys but Fassbinder made them sexy.

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