"World on a Wire" @The Sie Film Center for cinemaTech

This screening feels like a true test for the truest of truly true cinephiles. It's a 3.5 hour, hard-to-find West German film (originally aired as a mini-series) by an auteur on a Sunday afternoon at an independent theater. Get those cinephile cards ready! Letterboxd be damned, caution to the wind!

Synopsis: World on a Wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant hero Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it.

I have a complicated relationship with Fassbinder movies. I find them ambitious and bold but also really messy and more times than not, disappointing. I'm contributing that to my underseeing his films. Also he's a person of my community, so I'm giving him another chance! After all, supposedly one of his greatest works is a 15-hour film, so hopefully this will be the one that clicks for me and it looks and sounds really interesting.

Won't you join me in this endeavor?

Watch the trailer HERE

Get the ticket HERE

The Sie has free parking in the garage!