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Berlin Alexanderplatz
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June 5, 2008 – June 28, 2008
Thursdays (6:30pm)
Saturdays (2pm)
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- Price
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$10
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As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural interest in Alfred Döblin's epic 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Anticipating richly nuanced television series like The Wire, Fassbinder took advantage of the miniseries format's broad canvas to revel in the seedy underworlds of Weimar Germany. But whereas Döblin's novel is a declaration in present tense, Fassbinder's adaptation is full of the taut augur of hindsight. After the series' run in New York, Bay Area cineastes finally get a peek at the recent restoration of Fassbinder's 15-and-a-half-hour cinematic monument to a city.
