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Kamikaze '89

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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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Adam Sternbergh New York Magazine/Vulture 06/02/2016
It's completely bonkers and entirely charming. Go to Full Review
Melissa Anderson Village Voice 05/31/2016
When the increasingly knotty conspiracy plot that motors Kamikaze '89 grows too unintelligible or dull, Gremm has the good sense to cut to the film's greatest set piece ... Go to Full Review
Lee Jutton Film Inquiry 11/20/2017
The combination of dazzlingly detailed production design and Fassbinder's final performance make it hard to tears one's eyes away from the spectacle that is Kamikaze 1989. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Seanax.com 01/13/2017
The mystery is silly and confusing but the film is entertaining, with Fassbinder dressed in a leopard-print suit and playing racketball in a police disco in his off hours. Go to Full Review
Mark Asch Brooklyn Magazine 11/09/2016
The production design... is jaw-dropping for the full 100-odd minutes. Go to Full Review
TV Guide 11/09/2016
2/5
For those rabid Rainer-maniacs who can't get enough of the late, great director, Kamikaze '89 is a must--if only to see Fassbinder in his leopard-skin suit. Others will probably find the goings-on rather trying. Go to Full Review
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Bruce M @BruceMc Aug 15 RWF's last appearance. Very nutty, campy and surprisingly good. The conspiracy plot is secondary, the main interest is the atmosphere. See more Alain E @AlainE 10/25/2024 This is a graphic novel futuristic movie that retains its entertaining value 40 years after its release and Fassbinder’s death. The hero is a chain smoking police detective dressed in a leopard patterned civilian suit. Thankfully the images are restored and we can appreciate the colors, angles and illumination. Our attention is sustained except maybe five, ten minutes before the end. Then, there is an ingenious finale with the hero having a sexual encounter with Neil Armstrong’s image on the moon as Richard Nixon delivers a speech. So, not a remake of the Maltese Falcon. If anarchism in movie making is not your thing, stay away. See more 11/05/2019 A movie worth seeing for none other that three main reasons: The absurdist exercise in retrofuturism. The drunkenly charming performance of Fassbinder. The colorful anarchism of a production design that rewrites all the rules of what was then known as cyberpunk. The movie with his unbridled and convoluted plot owes way more to William Burroughs than William Gibson. The satire, in this unique cinematographic experience is more a direction chosen by director Wolf Gremm, than a clearly defined series of remarks that one can extract or decipher in the script. It is certainly witty and doesn't take itself seriously but you will hardly find any classically intended humour in the short and surreal lines of the actors. However this is the true strength of the movie and what allows it, to stand the test of time. See more 07/31/2010 no se de que trata pero dice kamikaze See more 07/31/2010 this is 1 sweet-ass vision of the future right here. like a really gay STRANGE DAYS filtered through with ALPHAVILLE. wasn't sure how much was futuristic costume and set design or just germany in 1982. my schoolboy german just about got me through it. Fassbinder is, as ever, brilliant. now i just wish that he and ollie reed had starred together. just imagine how twotted See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A police detective (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) in 1989 Germany investigates a bomb threat at a high-tech high-rise.
Director
Wolf Gremm
Producer
Regina Ziegler
Screenwriter
Robert Katz, Wolf Gremm
Production Co
Oase Film Essen, Trio Film, Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$18.7K
Runtime
1h 46m
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