Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Canon Fodder Episode 7 Dare Daniel Podcast

Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 7

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974; Dir.: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Mismatched duo Daniel and Corky buck all society’s rules by putting schnitzel on their strudel  to review German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.  But will your hosts Canon-ize this 1974 classic, or will they throw sauerkraut in its bauernbrot?

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL FACTS & FIGURES

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #52 (tied)

West German theatrical debut: March 5, 1974

IMDB synopsis: “A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.”

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Daniel’s favorite scene

Ali meets the family

Julie Christie approves!

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

A Man Escaped (1956; Dir.: Robert Bresson)

IMDB synopsis: “A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.”

Our review of A Man Escaped comes out on Feb. 27!

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