See this film: World on a Wire at the HFA
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1979 at the age
of 37, made more than 40 films in 10 years, a body of work that continues to
impress with its audacity, originality, and skewed beauty. One work that got
lost in the shuffle is his sole foray into sci-fi, the recently restored 210-minute
TV movie World
On A Wire (1972), an adaptation of
the Daniel F. Galouye novel Simulacron-3. In a dystopic future that
sounds a lot like today, a powerful computer has created a simulated world
mistaken by some for the real thing. Full of Fassbinder's trademark angst,
absurdity, and weltschmerz, plus a lot of funny clothes, it screens today and
tomorrow at the Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St,
Cambridge | Saturday, September 10 @ 7 pm | $9; $7 students, seniors | 617.495.4700 or
hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.