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Event, The (2015)

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Servant, The (1963)

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Autumn Tale, An (1998)

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Donbass (2018)

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Tag / West Germany

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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May 27, 2021November 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Marquise of O, The (1976)

  • Rohmer, Eric
  • 1976, Eric Rohmer, France, West Germany
  • 2 Comments

An anomaly in Rohmer’s filmography, this beautiful if minimalist period costume drama about a woman who doesn’t know how she got pregnant feels like a stage exercise rather than an embracing, organic work.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Lola (1981)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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This less celebrated entry in Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy is a biting take on capitalism and the commodification of the body as postwar Germany rebuilds.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 9, 2020August 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Veronika Voss (1982)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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The perils of drug addiction meet with the allure of a faded Third Reich star in Fassbinder’s evocative and fatalistic penultimate film.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 17, 2020August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Third Generation, The (1979)

  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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A relentless if chaotic sound design intensifies this controversial ensemble drama about a group of middle-class European terrorists trying to find an impetus for action amid the lull of domestication. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 12, 2020October 20, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

  • Herzog, Werner
  • 1982, Peru, Werner Herzog, West Germany
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One of the greatest feats by any filmmaker in the history of cinema, Herzog’s film pits personal ambition against the forces of nature as a man desires to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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July 12, 2020August 1, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

  • Herzog, Werner
  • 1972, Werner Herzog, West Germany
  • 4 Comments

Herzog brilliantly transports us to a bygone world and to the edge of madness as power and greed clash furiously with nature and survival in this great masterwork of 1970s German cinema.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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May 18, 2020August 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Bridge, The (1959)

  • Criterion Collection, Others
  • 1959, Bernhard Wicki, West Germany
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This powerful and tragic German anti-war film pits a group of drafted schoolboys-turned-inexperienced-soldiers against the advancing Americans as WWII draws to a close. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Fedora (1978)

  • Wilder, Billy
  • 1978, Billy Wilder, France, West Germany
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A late career triumph by Billy Wilder that works effectively as a spiritual sequel to his legendary ‘Sunset Boulevard’, as he looked back at the glamour of Hollywood with sad ‘European’ eyes. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 12, 2020August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)

  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1970, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
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This early Fassbinder is one of his most piercing works, exploring the consequence of domestic and professional stress through a series of highly-engaging conversational long takes. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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