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- While Kamikaze ’89 is technically a mystery, it is not a plot-driven thriller in any true sense. Its freewheeling structure and Fassbinder’s unhinged acting make it an amusing arthouse film. We learn the underpinnings of this futuristic society through its bizarre citizens.
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A police detective (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) in 1989 Germany investigates a bomb threat at a high-tech high-rise.
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- Wolf Gremm
Kamikaze '89 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Lee Jutton Film Inquiry. The combination of dazzlingly detailed production design and Fassbinder's final...
A terrorism campaign against the company by a nebulous entity called "Krysmopompas" (more impressive than "Osama," more intelligent than "Carlos the Jackal") brings on a police investigation headed by the force's most famous detective, Jansen (Fassbinder), who's never failed to solve a case.
Jul 16, 1982 · With Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis. In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
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- Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Wolf Gremm
- 1982-07-16
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The 4K scan on Film Movement’s new Blu-ray would be a grand slam were it not for the nagging presence of several blotches on the frame, present throughout, that look as though greasy fingerprints were covering the screen. Whether this is an accident of neglect or a problem that couldn’t be resolved isn’t clear, but it becomes a distraction as the f...
Two vastly different documentaries are the major players here. The first, titled “Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Last Year,” is mostly an hour of footage taken by writer-director Wolf Gremm of Fassbinder on and around the set, whether he’s rehearsing lines or speaking with other cast and crew. It’s by no means an explanatory doc, and it functions mo...
Film Movement provides a stellar, if modestly flawed, Blu-ray transfer of Kamikaze ‘89, a film that refuses to direct its nose-diving satire at any one target in particular, which makes it equal parts exhilarating and exhausting.
Kamikaze 89 dramatizes a dystopian, camp future. Through exaggerated stylization it satirizes a dysfunctional, oppressive society. Co-screenplay writer and director Gremm uses deliberate, highly theatrical artifice to make his points, using all elements of art direction: costumes, décor, and lighting.
Sep 28, 2016 · Director Wolf Gremm’s 1982 long-lost cyberpunk thriller Kamikaze ’89 showed how much Fassbinder actually knew the skills of an actor. Unfortunately, this was his final acting role before his untimely death from a drug overdose, which ended what could have been a very promising acting career for one of the most famous directors of the German ...
