DVD???
Am I the only film fan, Fassbinder, and Dirk Bogarde fan who loved this film? When will it be released on DVD????
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This is another that REALLY needs to be on DVD.
My old VHS tape has seen better days.
It seems like all of RWF's significant films have been released on DVD, and this one will arrive someday.
If I recall, Warner has the rights to this [at least I think my VHS tape is Warner Home Video].
New Yorker seemed to have most of theother films' rights, at least on VHS.
Let's hope this does not fall through the cracks.
It's one of my favourites, and it holds up really well to the book.
Perhaps with Berlin Alexanderplatz FINALLY making its way to DVD this one will also make it.
According to the Fassbinder Foundation website, the worldwide distributor is:
http://www.bavaria-film-international.de
Drat. No mention on the site of it:
http://www.bavaria-film-international.de/htmls/bfi/index.php
Anyone up to the task of sending them a message in German?
[German is not a language I can speak]
...Fingers Crossed
Being based on a book by Nabokov, having a script by Tom Stoppard, and being directed by Fassbinder, it is a cultural crime that this film is not on DVD and widely available. What's more, with that kind of artistic background, it is inexplicable why this film hasn't been released on DVD.
Having been too young to go to the art cinemas in New Orleans when this one came out, I have never seen it. I've just finished the book and it seems a shame that I can't view the film.
This should most definitely be released on DVD!!
If not as the 4th Fassbinder film to see a CRITERION RELEASE.
Everything from this period of Fassbinder's career demands attention.
"The more real things get, the more like myths they become. " R.W. Fassbinder
"Everything from this period of Fassbinder's career demands attention."
Agreed!
I always notice that reviewers and critics normally say that this period of his career marks a transition to a more "Hollywood" and "glossy" style but with DESPAIR, 13 MOONS, SATAN's BREW, THIRD GENERATION, the end of BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, QUERELLE and even VERONIKA VOSS, I always think its strange that no one mentions how otherworldly and fantastic his films became at this time.
Maybe some do mention it, but I always hear the Hollywood quality mentioned more so, and to me the overtly stylish and culty quality of his later films is most obvious.
"The more real things get, the more like myths they become. " R.W. Fassbinder
"it is a cultural crime that this film is not on DVD"
Agreed. And the same goes for Resnais' PROVIDENCE and innumerable films by Ruiz, Duras and Robbe-Grillet.
It will be released on DVD June 7:
http://www.amazon.com/Despair-Dirk-Bogarde/dp/B004RBC5JW
I've got the Region 1 DVD. The transfer is excellent, however I would hold out for a while longer because there is a German DVD/Bluray released in September which features a 70 minute documentary, and which isn't included on the Olive one above. I couldn't wait! I'm not sure about subtitles though, but the film has German and English options.
http://www.amazon.de/Despair-Eine-Reise-ins-Licht/dp/B005AC9EBO/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1313966934&sr=1-1