"Fox and His Friends"
1975
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

"Fascinating...Brilliant...The first serious, explicit but non-sensational movie about homosexuality to be shown in this country." - David Denby, New York Magazine.  A lower-class carnival entertainer professionally known as Fox the Talking Head strikes it rich, after a life of hard knocks, by winning the lottery. His new-found wealth attracts an elegant bourgeois lover, who proceeds to vamp Fox as thoroughly and unthinkingly as Lola Lola or Theda Bara. This ill-fated romance between "the capitalist and the lottery queen" makes for one of Fassbinder's most skillfully wrought films, expertly evoking a brittle, upper-class gay milieu where, as one character puts it, "God's dressed up like Marlene Dietrich, holding his nose." German with English subtitles. Color.  123 minutes.