Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit)

i don't know if a better movie about being autistic exists than this German movie from the 70s which was almost certainly not made with any intention to depict being autistic whatsoever. big thing i see in the reviews of this movie (both on this website and in general) is…

Dante

The tragic trajectory of Fox is evident from the start, though the exact details of his path are worth watching play out. This is a bleak portrait of a man unable to control his life, of the tragedy of being a misfit, of the power of money and love to destroy and blind and…

Sally Jane Black

i'm gonna say it Donald Trump was gay af for having this playing in the White House all the time

Dante

“Cash. Cash. Cash! If you repeat a word often enough you don’t know what it means anymore“

noen

once the Leonard Cohen song comes on at the gay bar you more or less know that everything is basically doomed

Dante

#Fassbinder Often, it is when you do not look for love that it falls into your life. It plummets into your heart and colors it red with a brush called idealism. You idealize the other person, you say things like 'I'd never have come so far on my own', things like 'Yeah,…

Lara Pop

Fox and His Friends is as unapologetically gay as it's cynically scathing. Characteristic of Fassbinder's queer sensitivity as well as his pessimistic, sometimes comical mockery of a materialistic German society and its gapping class differences, Fox and His Friends is a…

nick

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends primarily explores the hierarchical power of money. It’s certainly not a movie that communicates these themes positively or pleasurably, with Fassbinder amplifying a trait of willful self-debasement with its protagonist, Fox…

Paul Elliott

48/100 As I remembered it from (yeesh) 20 years ago. (I saw much of Fassbinder's oeuvre for the first time in a big '97 MoMA retro.) Each individual scene is impeccable, but the movie consists of the same impeccable scene repeated over and over and over again, without…

Mike D'Angelo