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Hit the Road (2021)

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, The (1986)

June 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Crossing, The (2021)

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Nanook of the North (1922)

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Trou, Le (1960)

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Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)

June 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Nostalghia (1983)

June 23, 2022June 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Broker (2022)

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Remorques (1941)

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Tag / Germany

February 20, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Spencer (2021)

  • Larrain, Pablo
  • 2021, Germany, Pablo Larrain, UK
  • 4 Comments

Kristen Stewart gives a top-tier performance of quiet rage as the tormented Princess Diana in this journey down a psychological hellhole that is as formally-crafted a film as you’ll see this year. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Black Book (2006)

  • Verhoeven, Paul
  • 2006, Germany, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven
  • 1 Comment

This WWII thriller is a return to form for Verhoeven after his hit-and-miss Hollywood journey, featuring an exceptional performance by Carice van Houten as a Jewish singer who attempts to infiltrate the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 19, 2021October 27, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Hidden Life, A (2019)

  • Malick, Terrence
  • 2019, Germany, Terrence Malick, USA
  • 2 Comments

As beautifully-shot as any in Malick’s oeuvre, this three-hour long piece based on a true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis in WWII is somewhat a return to form for the American auteur whose work here might still come across as a tad flat.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Documentary, Germany
  • 1 Comment

This is pedagogy as cinema—an unobtrusive and highly-rewarding documentary centering on a veteran teacher and his ethnically-diverse students in a small town in Germany, earning every compelling bit of its nearly four-hour runtime.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 27, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Fox and His Friends (1975)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1975, Germany, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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A depressing, slow-burning gay drama that only Fassbinder (also fantastic in the lead role) could have conceived—full of pathos and rich in its depiction of the milieu of a class-divided queer community.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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July 20, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Transit (2018)

  • Petzold, Christian
  • 2018, Christian Petzold, France, Germany
  • 1 Comment

Too overly-plotted, Petzold’s attempt at revising Casablanca for the modern age—and in his own oblique style and sensibility—doesn’t come out as deeply compelling as his best works.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 30, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Phoenix (2014)

  • Criterion Collection, Petzold, Christian
  • 2014, Christian Petzold, Germany
  • 1 Comment

Petzold’s unique treatment of the doppelganger story as a Hitchcockian exercise in exorcising the Jewish-German trauma of WWII boasts an extraordinary denouement of unparalleled execution. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 26, 2021August 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)

  • Others
  • 2020, Germany
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The sum is lesser than its parts in this interesting but ultimately unconvincing Venice offering that deals with a group of anti-fascist youths who become increasingly violent in their moral fight against the rise of ultra-right ideologies in Germany.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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June 25, 2021August 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Barbara (2012)

  • Petzold, Christian
  • 2012, Christian Petzold, Germany
  • 2 Comments

Petzold’s strong command of his craft is evident here in this measured and nuanced Stasi anti-thriller featuring a wary female doctor in ‘80s East Germany who desires to defect. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 17, 2021November 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Yella (2007)

  • Petzold, Christian
  • 2007, Christian Petzold, Germany
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It draws heavy inspiration from the 1962 indie horror ‘Carnival of Souls‘, but the storytelling and execution are unmistakably Petzold’s as he tackles failed dreams and false hopes in this slow-burning psychological biz thriller.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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