Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors - Ian Penman artist bookMelodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penmans long awaited first full length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period in the spirit of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as Penmans equivalent of what Baudelaire was to Benjamin: an urban poet in
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