Just some notes. I look forward to Berlin Alexanderplatz...
Acquired taste, try Werner Herzog: Heart of Glass, Frizcaraldo, Aquirre, Wrath of God, or the stunning docmentary Lessons of Darkness on the 1991 Gulf War oil fires.
Also, I think most film critics seem particularly stupid about the visual realm of film---blind as it were. For example there are a set of visual symmetries that set up the visual coherence of film that are somewhat related to the stage and theater that most critics seem not to see at all or to talk much about. Also things about visual composition. Antonioni is particularly good at both the symmetries and the compositional formats.
Jean Renoir's Children of Paradise manages some great narrative parallels matched to the kind of visual symmetries I am thinking of...
Hitchcock does a few of these too, say in rear window, which has vigenettes of Stewart with his camera, and the making of film or set up for a scene...
These are the kinds of things I really like in film.. Hopefully Fassbinger does some of these....
CG