Fox and His Friends (1975)
Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth... (imdb)
AKA: Faustrecht der Freiheit
Country: West Germany
Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christian Hohoff
Starring: Ulla Jacobsson, Karlheinz Böhm, Harry Baer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Peter Chatel, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Hans Zander
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Fox and His Friends belongs to 20 collections
1. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (public: moderated by kozan26 - 184 stars)
2. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 15 stars)
3. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (public: moderated by rant1229 - 14 stars)
4. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
5. Gay-Themed Films (Male) (public: moderated by bobyang - 13 stars)
6. New German Cinema (public: moderated by lucbapt - 9 stars)
7. Best of criticker: Drama (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 8 stars)
8. Best of criticker: Crime (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 7 stars)
9. Gay (public: moderated by vincente - 5 stars)
10. Male Frontal Nudity (public: moderated by bobyang - 5 stars)
11. Director/star combination (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
12. Best of criticker: Romance (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 4 stars)
13. Village Voice Critics Poll: 100 Best Films of the 20th Century (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
14. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
15. Doubling the Canon (2012 update) (public: moderated by Cinephile - 1 star)
16. Michael Ballhaus (cinematographer). (public: moderated by karamazov. - 1 star)
17. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (private: Coheed - 3 stars)
18. Lume Filmes (private: Edson Abas - 1 star)
19. 1975: Year in Review (private: polanski28)
20. Cinetheque (private: sdenka)
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I got it pretty early on. Most of the film felt like an endurance test--can you continue to walk along with this oblivious or desperate guy who is so obviously being taken advantage of. Exquisitely shot, to be sure, but the characterization of the lead lacked enough to make the long journey worthwhile.
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| Jan 24, 2017 | Blade | 37 3% |
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As if someone is trying to get more clean with a soap, but the more he uses it, the dirtier he gets.
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| Dec 29, 2015 | Biberkopf | 90 56% |
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frederic_g54 | 7 56% |
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I admire Fassbinder's honesty in how he saw human beings - complete with their ugly sides, complexities and imperfections - but because his motives are usually clear from the get-go, his films tend to overstay their welcome. Here's hoping that his oeuvre doesn't fall under the category: once you've seen one, you've seen them all.
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karamazov. | 79 95% |
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In this misanthrope's version of Sirkian melodrama, with all the trappings of Anger, a working class lead played by Fassbinder strikes it rich, falls in with a circle of old bourgeois queers, and gets positively eaten alive. Fucking awesome.
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Which one's Steve Doocy?
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| Mar 22, 2015 | windowseat | 85 75% |
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| Mar 16, 2015 | 10kfilms | 90 86% |
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| Feb 08, 2015 | Nepeta | 80 66% |
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and what friends indeed. the title is like the final icy footnote on a film that avoids cheap sentiment instead aiming for the cold and matter-of-fact (meanwhile the sirkian colours surrounding are warm and intoxicating). the last scene is gorgeously shot, harsh and rather striking.
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"Make no mistake, this is the real Queer as Folk, but for all of Fassbinder's gripes with an elite gay culture's many sexual hang-ups, Fox and His Friends is first and foremost a riveting evocation of Social Darwinism in action." - Ed Gonzalez
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JerryJ | 70 67% |
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A rather simple and obvious telling of a working-class fellow trying to fit in the upper class tier. I thought the ending might've been bad, but it turned out to be quite the striking image.
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I knew Fassbinder was a very good director. This film shows that he's also a very good actor.
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cinema_hell | 80 62% |
| May 25, 2009 | pompousass | 40 71% |
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Fassbinder's sob story about an illbred homosexual sideshow performer, "Fox, the Talking Head", who lucks into a lottery jackpot and is bled dry by his deceitful, prissy, upper-middle-class lover. Fassbinder reproduces some right-sounding, catty, below-the-belt dialogue in the homosexual social circle, but this is merely a sidelight of the movie, a bonus. Essentially he uses homosexuality as a means of equalizing the characters, so as to move the focus away from the Sex War to the Class War.
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| May 17, 2009 |  |
chrisssslim | 90 80% |
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viva hate | 8 67% |
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JooJoo | 6 95% |
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Once more, the forces of Sirk/Brecht/Döblin collide in Fassbinder's mind and create an absolutely fantastic creation.
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| Mar 22, 2009 | dodesukadent | 90 67% |
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imdb | 79 28% |
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Gody85 | 69 86% |
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metawirt | 87 42% |
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