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...MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN...
...contemporary director. Who but Fassbinder would shoot a scene from the point of view of a character's ankles, or punctuate a film with shots of telephones? What is more, Fassbinder's idiosyncrasies are more skillfully performed with each film. The opening of The Marriage of Maria Braun is a particular gem: as our eyes take in an Adolf Hitler wall poster, the image explodes to reveal a full-dress wedding in the midst of a bombing attack. From this incongruous tableau, the director moves on to ever higher lunacy. Audiences never know when he will cut away...
...Hollywood director Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and the '60s Warhol disciple Paul Morrissey (Flesh). But unlike his predecessors, Fassbinder does not recognize the limits of the form. Camp is fine for movies that want to trade exclusively in offbeat humor and florid emotions. In Maria Braun, Fassbinder makes the serious mistake of try ing to convey ideas...
...space buff, Hannifin has been covering NASA since it was NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, until 1958). Recalls Hannifin: "We used to talk about the 'new' turbojet engines, and, gee whiz! a supersonic airplane even seemed possible." Over the years, he met Rocket Wizard Wernher von Braun, covered blast-offs from Cape Kennedy...
...decision, made by a handful of men. As William Sims Bainbridge pointed out in his 1976 book The Spaceflight Revolution; a Sociological Study, space travel is a technological mutation that should not really have arrived until the 21st century. But thanks to the ambition and genius of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, and their influence upon individuals as disparate as Kennedy and Khrushchev, the moon-like the South Pole-was reached half a century ahead of time...