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It's Fassbinder actor Ulli Lommel's 77th birthday today! I loooooove (see all them o's? They're for extra love) the above scene from Fassbinder's first film Love is Colder Than Death starring Lommel and Fassbinder and Hanna Schygulla. That scene is pretty much a synecdoche - that is, a small piece representing the whole. It's all about the sexy violent weird dance between these three.
I've spoken of Lommel a few times this year since I discovered a couple of the movies he directed - there was Tenderness of the Wolves, which he made in 1973 and which starred a bunch of Fassbinder actors (and Fassbinder himself) as kiddie-snacking cannibals, and then there's the 1980 slasher flick The Boogeyman, which got some Ways Not To Die treatment and is a big bag of nutso. He rocks.
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I finally got Wolves on DVD From ebay at a good price. Had never seen it before. Good shit.
It's so hard to get ahold of, it's a shame! But yeah, it's terrific. Glad you liked it!
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