Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 17 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.

March 30, 2021July 17, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Dressed to Kill (1980)

De Palma’s command of the erotic thriller is indisputable in this suspenseful murder mystery that pays full homage to Hitchcock.

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March 29, 2021July 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

24 City (2008)

There’s something very deeply moving and universal about Jia’s seemingly mundane documentary about the stories of workers (and their children) who used to ply their trade in a Chengdu factory that had made way for new commercial development as China rapidly modernised in the 2000s.

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March 28, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Mudbound (2017)

The constant intercutting between two related storylines—that of a White and Black family living in Mississippi in the 1940s—seems to have spread its narrative more thinly than intended, but this is still a crucial look at the ills of racism.

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March 28, 2021March 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Arguably David Lynch’s magnum opus, this is the cinematic equivalent of the ultimate Rubik’s cube – mysterious, unsolvable, haunting and a psycho-emotionally shattering experience.

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March 27, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Walk, The (2013)

Dutta explores the inner psychological and creative world of an Indian artist who does charcoal painting through this mesmerising sensorial non-narrative.

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March 25, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

No End (1985)

Kieslowski’s most political film takes a look at activism, law and ghosts through two parallel but related stories, but it doesn’t quite achieve the transcendence of his later pictures.

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March 23, 2021July 3, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

A schoolteacher and her circulating sex tape headline Radu Jude’s new sociopolitical experiment—a piercing satire on everything wrong with the world that is as savagely non-PC as it is hilarious.

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March 22, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Hey There! (2021)

Erdem’s new work may be borne out of filmmaking restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it finds pure comedy and pathos with an ingenious concept centering on a series of online interactions between naïve and conniving strangers.

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March 21, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blue Velvet (1986)

Lynch’s masterpiece is a surreal experience complete with sensational performances, a disturbing film that portrays the moral rot that comes with the American Dream.

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March 20, 2021August 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)

An inventive treatise on living and dying, and most important of all, of loving, as a legal trial in heaven decides the fate of an airman who is literally caught in an unprecedented life-and-death scenario.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Dressed to Kill (1980)

24 City (2008)

Mudbound (2017)

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Seventh Walk, The (2013)

No End (1985)

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

Hey There! (2021)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)