As playful, entertaining, funny and generous a work as Fassbinder made, Eight Hours subdues the elements of despair that permeate his films—though they are there—and brings the humanism to the surface. I love how labour and relationships are given equal attention and importance, intersecting in their notions of collectivism. As is typical for Fassbinder, the moment to moment formal inventiveness is stunning. In particular, how he films the workers is beautiful.

35mm, Lightbox, best screening of life

Disjointed shot / reverse shots, adults unable to look at each other and therefore themselves. Trust in oneself as manifested in how we see ourselves reflected in strangers' eyes. One of the great relationship films—made unique and special by its focus that keeps us in a brisk trajectory of a love life freed from context and tropes. Denis, one of the true existential filmmakers, whose films seem to exist not as questions nor messages but in the space of living itself.