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November 25, 2005
Late and great and lasting: Ballhaus on work with Fassbinder
At the Grauniad, Will Hodgkinson uses the occasion of a production still of Fassbinder on set to tout the career of a cinematographic great who outlived the protean German director.
"The squatting man behind the movie camera is Michael Ballhaus, one of the most innovative cinematographers of European film. He is shooting Margit Carstensen and Karlheinz Bohm, playing a fragile woman and her manipulative husband, on the Spanish Steps in Rome for the 1973 film Martha. On the right, watching with haughty solemnity, is Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the volatile, self-destructive, and extremely talented director who reinvented German cinema throughout the 1970s." [The several paragraphs at the link are worth the time.] Photo: BFI
Posted by pride at November 25, 2005 03:56 PM
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