All All. Sign In. My favorite directors! Sidenote: There are a few directors Fellini, Bergman, Bunuel for example whose movies I rated very high, but they are fairly low on the list. I haven't re-watched most of their filmography in years, so I don't exactly have very detailed opinion on some of their films. Also, there's a few directors on here I don't regard as one of my favorites or anything, but I also use this list as a way to remind myself of what films I have seen from directors I think are interesting.
List activity. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor.
Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and even antigay, he completed 44 projects between and , the majority of which can be characterized as highly intelligent social melodramas.
His prodigious output was matched by a wild, self-destructive libertinage that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema as well as its central figure. Known for his trademark leather jacket and grungy appearance, Fassbinder cruised the bar scene by night, looking for sex and drugs, yet he maintained a flawless work ethic by day.
Actors and actresses recount disturbing stories of his brutality toward them, yet his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social misfits and his hatred of institutionalized violence. Some find his cinema needlessly controversial and avant-garde; others accuse him of surrendering to the Hollywood ethos. It is best said that he drew forth strong emotional reactions from all he encountered, both in his personal and professional lives, and this provocative nature can be experienced posthumously through reviewing his artistic legacy.
