World on a Wire
| Saturday, February 4 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Sunday, February 5 | ||
| 5:15 pm | ||
| Wednesday, February 8 | ||
| 9:00 pm | ||
| Thursday, February 9 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
New digital restoration!
A dystopic science-fiction epic, WORLD ON A WIRE is German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. With dashes of Kubrick, Vonnegut, and Dick, but a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate and governmental conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of cinema’s kinkiest geniuses.
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin and Mascha Rabben
German w/English subtitles
212 min, blu-ray
“Nothing short of breathtaking.” -A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URq7m3-SOtA&feature=youtu.be
