Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 13 years, ET has been intensely passionate about everything that encompasses cinema. He is an adjunct lecturer of film studies, a professional curator, sometimes producing shorts, and always writing reviews. He's also an incredibly devoted fan of The Criterion Collection, plays the piano/keyboards and guitar, and absolutely adores Snoopies.

January 15, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Incendies (2010)

A slightly overdrawn film, but haunting and emotionally resonant in its own way, at the same time announcing Denis Villeneuve as a cinematic force to be reckoned with.

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January 14, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Drunken Angel (1948)

A fiery doctor and an ill gangster form a love-hate bond in Kurosawa’s striking first collab with Toshiro Mifune, a tale of changing times amid out-of-fashion masculine codes of honour.

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January 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Small Town, The (1997)

A strong, poetic feature debut from a master-in-the-making, centering on two young children’s perspective of living in their home village, as the adults around them converse about the cruelty and misery of life.

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January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

This notorious Hong Kong Cat III cult classic is either one of the most offensive movies ever made—or a hilarious ‘feel-good’ romp made more relevant with an ongoing pandemic.

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January 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Basilisks, The (1963)

Three young men waste their time away in a lazy provincial town at the South of Italy in this assured first feature by the trailblazing Lina Wertmuller, with a lovely score by Ennio Morricone.

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January 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Woman Who Left, The (2016)

Lav Diaz’s Venice Golden Lion winner has its beautiful cinematic moments, but its diminishing returns are at best tolerable.

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January 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

A mix of fiction and reality, and memory and imagination as Shyam Benegal weaves a complex drama full of literary qualities, but somehow isn’t compelling enough to get into.

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January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)

This banned and long-lost Iranian debut feature, boosted by a stunning restoration, is a genuine eye-opener—subversive, progressive, and a formidable take on how power and greed are symptomatic of patriarchy and nobility.

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January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Shadow (2018)

A return to form in some ways, Zhang’s monochrome martial-arts drama is visually gorgeous but not always compelling.

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January 6, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)

Zatoichi’s caught in between nasty gangsters and ungrateful villagers in this 14^th entry that boasts great action but little in a way of a substantial story.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Drunken Angel (1948)

Small Town, The (1997)

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Basilisks, The (1963)

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)

Yellow Cat (2020)

Soul (2020)

Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (2020)

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Incendies (2010)

Drunken Angel (1948)

Small Town, The (1997)

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Basilisks, The (1963)

Woman Who Left, The (2016)

Seventh Horse of the Sun, The (1992)

Chess Game of the Wind, The (1976)

Shadow (2018)

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (1966)