Putting The Queer In Querelle

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(Click to embiggen) I suppose one of these days I will run out of behind-the-scenes pictures from this 32-year old movie to post... but that day is not today, thank goodness. With the first part of the glorious Fassbinder retrospective coming to a close in a couple of days at The Film Society of Lincoln Center I'm already looking forward to the second half, which will happen sometime in November. My two favorite RWF movies screened already in this first half (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, natch) and I got to see them magnificently projected on a big screen, but the second half, focusing in on Fassbinder's last few years of output, is where the really big visual feasts come in - movies like Querelle and Veronika Voss and Chinese Roulette (oh god Chinese Roulette), and even The Marriage of Maria Braun which I'm not as infatuated with as everybody else seems to be but is visually scrumptious - so this Fall is gonna be awesome.