World on a Wire.
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 Lowitsch), a cyberneti...
| Corporate Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English, German |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Criterion Collection/Janus Films,
1973.
Kanopy Streaming, 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video |
| Summary: | 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 Lowitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it. Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinema's kinkiest geniuses. |
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| Item Description: | FilmCollection. Title from title frames. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (214 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 03:33:25 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |