Whity

Starring:Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Studio: Fantoma
Product Type: DVD

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He's been called everything from a petty tyrant to the last great filmmaker of the 20th century. In little more than a decade, Rainer Werner Fassbinder created an amazing legacy of 43 films and, by his death at the age of 37, had destroyed boundaries, redefined genres, and changed the course of world cinema. The lush widescreen western "Whity" (1970, 95 min.), winner of two German Oscars, centers on a slave who becomes the obsession of a demented family intent on disposing of one another. Presented in a beautifully restored anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen transfer. "Pioneers in Ingolstadt" (1970, 87 min.), Fassbinder's first film to be invited to the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, alternates between perverse comedy and melancholy as a group of young German recruits building a wooden bridge in the town of Ingolstadt seeks relief from their boredom with alcohol, acts of brutality, and sexual escapades. A fierce cinematic talent, Fassbinder was hailed at the time by Vincent Canby as the most original filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard.

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Whity
Starring: Harry Baer , Günther Kaufmann , Ron Randell , Hanna Schygulla , and Ulli Lommel
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Manufacturer: Fantoma
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Release Date: 2000-03-28

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's seventh feature is a widescreen mix of hothouse southern gothic melodrama and edgy spaghetti western in sunbaked color. Whity (Günther Kaufmann, a longtime Fassbinder regular), the obedient family butler, is the illegitimate mulatto son of sadistic, bullwhip-wielding patriarch Ben Nicholson (American B-movie actor Ron Randell). The ghoulish Nicholson family members include a nymphomaniacal young wife and a brutal, homosexual eldest son (coproducer and future director Ulli Lommell) who abuse yet secretly love Whity, and a developmentally disabled youngest son whom Whity protects from the others like a brother. It's a grotesque portrait even for Fassbinder, who cakes the Nicholson family faces with gray makeup--they look and at times act like dead-eyed zombies--and sets them plotting against each other. Hannah Schygulla costars as a saloon singer who warbles Kurt Weill-like tunes, and Fassbinder himself plays a gambler who whips Whity for fun. It was Fassbinder's first feature abroad--he shot it on Sergio Leone's western sets in Almeria, Spain--and the first of many collaborations with Michael Ballhaus. The behind-the-scenes drama was so eventful that it inspired Beware of a Holy Whore only months later. --Sean Axmaker

The Fassbinder Collection I (Whity / Pioneers in Ingolstadt)

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The Fassbinder Collection I (Whity / Pioneers in Ingolstadt)
Starring: Harry Baer , Elaine Baker (III) , Helga Ballhaus , Peter Berling , and Stefano Capriati
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Release Date: 2002-08-20

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Whity: Special Edition

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Whity: Special Edition
Starring: Harry Baer , Elaine Baker (III) , Helga Ballhaus , Peter Berling , and Stefano Capriati
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Winner of two German Oscars, yet virtually unseen in the U.S., Fantoma is proud to present Rainer Werner Fassbinder's DVD debut, Whity.

The first of the director's psychologically complex melodramas, Whity centers around the illegitimate son of the seriously deranged Ben Nicholson. Despite being their slave, he becomes the obsession of each member of the family as they try to enlist his aid in disposing of one another.

Shot in lush cinemascope, in Spain, on the sets of Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns," Whity marked the first of 14 collaborations between Fassbinder and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (GoodFellas, Last Temptation of Christ, Bram Stoker's Dracula). The result is a unique film in the development of one of cinema's greatest and most influential talents.

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