Dr Tony Shaw
Mainly the Obscure, and/or mainly 'Outsider' Literature
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German Cinema
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German Cinema
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26 February 2021
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Faustrecht der Freiheit | Fox and His Friends
(1975)
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I'm not exactly too sure why, but to some extent I see Fox and His Friends as the flipside of Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul . Hom...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte | Beware of a Holy Whore
(1971)
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Beware of a Holy Whore is influenced by Fassbinder's own experiences with his previous film Whity , a spaghetti western which never wen...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
(1972)
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This is very much a play-like film, and claustrophobically set in one bedroom with a small cast of only women. This is where Petra von Kant ...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Die Ehe der Maria Braun | The Marriage of Maria Braun
(1979)
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At the beginning of the film initially set in 1943 an explosion comes at the start of a marriage, at the end of it an explosion ends the mar...
24 February 2021
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Angst essen Seele auf* | Fear Eats the Soul
(1974)
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This is a film of love and loneliness – and also racism and ageism in post-war Germany – and is a inspired by Douglas Sirk's films (and ...
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