Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most prolific filmmakers in history, making 40-plus films before dying of a drug overdose at age 37. His style was varied, from comedy to epic to intense frank films that explored gay life in Germany in the 1970s. He was also a huge fan of Hollywood director Douglas Sirk, whose melodramas influenced a host of other gay filmmakers, including John Waters and Todd Haynes.
The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff is holding a free Monday movie screening series that honors both Sirk and Fassbinder. It started last week with the screening of Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows; tonight, it screens Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder’s remake of that. The series continues on May 2 with Sirk’s Imitation of Life, followed on May 16 by Fassbinder’s In a Year with 13 Moons.
It’s free, and all showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. Bring a hankerchief — they tend to be weepies.
