World Premiere of Fassbinder's Remastered "Berlin Alexanderplatz"

I thought you might be interested in tidbits (I'm just reading the German papers):

"...will finally be shown in the format Fassbinder couldn't afford for
financial reasons: 35mm."
-- Europolitan

Hanna Schygulla: "Fassbinder recognized himself in the contradictory
protagist Franz Biberkopf, which was the reason why making this movie was
particularly important to him."
-- Dradio

A German 6-DVD German language version w/ bonus material is published by the
"Süddeutsche Zeitung Cinemathek"

It will NOT be shown on TV.

There will be an exhibition starting March 18th:

"One month later, on March 17, 2007, the exhibition Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz will open at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The show will present this unusual and fascinating work in a way that enables visitors to choose their own mode of approach. In fourteen separate rooms, the episodes and the epilogue of Berlin Alexanderplatz will be screened in permanent loop. In addition, all the episodes will be shown in chronological order and full length on a central big screen. Visitors can thus decide how they approach Berlin Alexanderplatz: they can divide its unusual length up into pieces, watch episodes several times, or return to the exhibition whenever they like, as the entrance ticket entitles holders to repeated visits. The parallel screening of all the episodes in one place will highlight Fassbinder’s impressive visual idiom and his artistically challenging, free and innovative use of images. The epilogue to Berlin Alexanderplatz marks a high point in Fassbinder’s creative work, combining visual and narrative planes in a complex collage that anticipates contemporary artistic positions. The exhibition also presents stills from the film’s 224 scenes. A further, highly personal document are the tapes on which Fassbinder himself recorded his script for the film and which have never previously been made accessible to the public.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (in German; English edition planned; approx. 600 pages), edited by Klaus Biesenbach, with essays by Susan Sontag and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The catalogue includes extensive illustrations."

The premier is tonight. Strange for me to think that those who are in their twenties never had a chance to see the film yet. Gala Premier at the 57th
Berlinale.