Skip to content
  • View menu
  • View featured posts
  • View sidebar

Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

  • About ET
  • Writings
  • Reviews
    • Latest & Upcoming
    • 0-9
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-T
    • U-Z
    • Directors: A-C
    • Directors: D-F
    • Directors: G-I
    • Directors: J-L
    • Directors: M-O
    • Directors: P-R
    • Directors: S-T
    • Directors: U-Z

Featured

Caught in the Net (2020)

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

January 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Drunken Angel (1948)

January 14, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Small Town, The (1997)

January 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Basilisks, The (1963)

January 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

January 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)

January 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Yellow Cat (2020)

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Categories

Tags

1966 1972 1979 1984 1986 1987 1988 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Alfred Hitchcock Canada China Christopher Nolan Clint Eastwood Dekalog Denmark Documentary France Germany Hong Kong Hou, Hsiao-Hsien India Iran Italy Japan Jean-Luc Godard Jim Jarmusch Joel & Ethan Coen Krzysztof Kieslowski Martin Scorsese Mexico Netflix New Zealand Philippines Pixar Poland Quentin Tarantino Rainer Werner Fassbinder Singapore South Korea Soviet Union Spain Stanley Kubrick Sweden Taiwan Turkey UK USA West Germany Yasujiro Ozu Zatoichi

Follow Eternality Tan on WordPress.com

Follow Me

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Supports:

Supports:

Supports:

Supports

Supports:

Tag / West Germany

August 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Lola (1981)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • 2 Comments

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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
August 9, 2020August 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Veronika Voss (1982)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • 2 Comments

The perils of drug addiction meet with the allure of a faded Third Reich star in Fassbinder’s evocative and fatalistic penultimate film.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 17, 2020August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Third Generation, The (1979)

  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • Leave a comment

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. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 12, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

  • Herzog, Werner
  • 1982, Peru, Werner Herzog, West Germany
  • 2 Comments

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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
May 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Bridge, The (1959)

  • Criterion Collection, Others
  • 1959, Bernhard Wicki, West Germany
  • Leave a comment

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. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Fedora (1978)

  • Wilder, Billy
  • 1978, Billy Wilder, France, West Germany
  • 1 Comment

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. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
April 12, 2020August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)

  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1970, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • Leave a comment

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. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
December 13, 2019August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Effi Briest (1974)

  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • Leave a comment

Polished, precise and beautifully-shot in black-and-white, but its cold and austere treatment can be a long, alienating slog.

⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 15, 2019August 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Katzelmacher (1969)

  • Criterion Collection, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
  • 1969, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany
  • Leave a comment

Fassbinder’s second feature continues his minimalist and spare direction, this time centering on a group of xenophobic, good-for-nothing friends.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
Continue reading →

Posts navigation

Older posts
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Eternality Tan
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Cancel