I have yet to find a copy or see a site online that actually shows the cover so it might have been delayed. This is one of the Fassbinder's I have been dying to see so I am a bit frustrated. I hear that it is one of his most aesthetically and thematically audacious works. Let's hope.
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This may be Fassbinder's best. There's a particularly brilliant shot where a junkie's body is framed through a mirror, that's unforgettable.
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." R.W. Fassbinder
It was released in the UK as part of Artificial Eye's 'Fassbinder Volume 2' collection back in 2007, which is how I saw it.
As a film, I thought it was excellent; maybe even my favourite film from Fassbinder, especially of his later period. It's much more than a riposte to Godard's La chinoise; though a lot of 'alienation-techniques' used are consistent with Godard's work. It's maybe worth seeing in the context of Fassbinder's segment of Germany in Autumn, a film that deals with the mood of the country during the late 1970s (the 'German Autumn', the kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the hijacking "Landshut" and the rise of the RAF, etc)
Like a lot of Fassbinder movies, the tone tends to switch between quite bleak and depressing scenes with moments of pitch-black comic satire.