THE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER COLLECTION VOL. III | Arrow Video | UK | 13 June 2022
Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries ALTER EGO: HARRY BAER ON RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER (2006, 41 min), MAN IN THE SHADOW: MICHAEL FENGLER ON RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER (2022, 33 min), TAKING OFF: MICHAEL KÖNIG ON RIO DAS MORTES (2022, 26 min), FREEDOM OR DEATH!: MICHAEL KÖNIG ON THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY (2022, 23 min), WORKING WITH FASSBINDER, PART ONE: RENATE LEIFFER ON MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN (2022, 32 min), WORKING WIT FASSBINDER, PART TWO: RENATE LEIFFER ON FEAR OF FEAR (25 min), and SLOW DAYS: ASTA SCHEIB ON FEAR OF FEAR (22 min).
BODY DOUBLE | Koch Films | Germany | 24 March 2022
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary PURE CINEMA: JOE NAPOLITANO ON BRIAN DE PALMA’S BODY DOUBLE (38 min).
CHINA GATE | Imprint | Australia | 30 March 2022
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary PEACE OF MIND: A PERSONAL LOOK AT SAMUEL FULLER’S CHINA GATE (42 min).
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN | Imprint | Australia | 30 March 2022
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary DALTON TRUMBO: REBEL IN HOLLYWOOD (59 min).
WRITTEN ON THE WIND | The Criterion Collection | USA | 1 February 2022
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary ACTING FOR DOUGLAS SIRK: WRITTEN ON THE WIND AND THE TARNISHED ANGELS REMEMBERED (22 min).
LES AVENTURES D’ANTOINE DOINEL | France | Carlotta Films | 1 December 2021
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary TRAVAILLER AVEC FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT: CLAUDE DE GIVRAY ET BERNARD REVON, CO-SCÉNARISTES (2003/2021) (45 min).
NOS PLUS BELLES ANNÉES (The Way We Were) | Wild Side Video | France | 24 November 2021
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary PERSONAL INVESTMENT: SYDNEY POLLACK ON AMERICAN CINEMA AND 40 YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD (2021) (42 min).
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN | The Criterion Collection | USA | 19 October 2021
Contains the Fiction Factory documentary JACK ARNOLD REMEMBERS THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (2021) (27 min).
FLEISCH | Filmjuwelen | Germany | 3 September 2021
Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: VON DER BAVARIA ZUR PENTAGRAMMA (1952-1973) (39 min), DAS PUBLIKUM IM BLICK: RAINER ERLER ÜBER SEINEN FILM »FLEISCH« (28 min) and RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: FLEISCH (1979) (12 min).
LE DERNIER MÉTRO | Carlotta Films | France | 2 June 2021
Contains the new Fiction Factory documentary LE PARTAGE DU PLAISIR: SOUVENIRS PERSONNELS DU DERNIER MÉTRO (65 min.) with Paulette Dubost, Andréa Ferréol, Sabine Haudepin, Florent Bazin, Tessa Racine, and Alain Tasma.
Fiction Factory is pleased to announce that Robert Fischer’s feature-length documentary LIFE AS IT IS: MILOS FORMAN ON MILOS FORMAN (2018) has been selected for this year’s edition of EPOS Art Film Festival in Tel Aviv. The festival writes on its website: »Forman was a great conversationalist, and this time with him is an informative and entertaining lesson on cinema from one of its greats.« LIFE AS IT IS will be shown on 12 March, 8 pm, at Asia vanue. For more information, see here.
