Fassbinder’s Phantom

In 1982 when legendary German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder sadly died, he was nearing completion of a project that was to have changed his international profile for ever. After Return of The Jedi entered production, George Lucas wanted to make sure the next film in the series exceeded all expectations. Taking advice from his old film professor at University, George hired Fassbinder and gave him the script for The Phantom Menace. Fassbinder was immediately inspired and produced the film in parallel to his well known classic Querelle. Starring a younger, leaner JaJa Binks than appeared in the eventual Lucas directed version, the film gives off a strong erotic charge which the latter version strives for and misses. Fassbinder’s version was never given a full release, and has lain unmolested in the vaults of the Munich Film Repository for too long. This poster artwork shown on the T-shirt was sketched out by Lucas and Fassbinder themselves and was only recently rediscovered. I have the exclusive rights to it.

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THE ROTTEN TAROT LAUNCH EVENT!

Supertime Books & Jody Barton present a brand new Tarot deck with completely new ideas, artwork and metaphors in keeping with the dismal and comic age in which we cower. Laugh, cry and hurl as you utilise these exquisite esoteric fortune telling cards to re-order your own disordered life(style) into something yet more baroque and disassociative. Meet the artist and writer of this romantic deluge Jody Barton, get him to sign your cards, pummel him for insights into the fog you call ‘your life’ and be a good member of society, turning up to awkwardly meet other people with obliquely similar interests. Drinks, salty snacks, maybe a playlist – Jody might even ‘talk’. It’s gonna be a gas.

SUPERTIME BOOKS
Thursday April 3rd 2025, 17:00 to 19:00
Blågårdsgade 31c 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark