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.

February 21, 2021August 4, 2021 by Eternality Tan

All Is Forgiven (2007)

An assured feature debut from Mia Hansen-Løve who deals with the film’s father-daughter bond/estrangement with a clear-eyed sensitivity.

Continue reading →

February 20, 2021February 11, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Matrix, The (1999)

Popular
1999, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, USA
12 Comments

A landmark ‘90s sci-fi masterpiece with that rare combo of style and substance—two decades later, it loses none of its sobering philosophical inquiry.

Continue reading →

February 20, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Dearest Sister (2016)

Mattie Do somehow makes this Laotian drama with horror elements work despite a convoluted denouement.

Continue reading →

February 18, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Orpheus (1950)

Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.

Continue reading →

February 17, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Claire’s Knee (1970)

Arguably Rohmer’s most iconic ‘moral tale’—the plot of an older man’s fetish for a teenage girl’s bare knee makes for great philosophical musings about the nature of lust and love.

Continue reading →

February 16, 2021June 20, 2022 by Eternality Tan

River Called Titas, A (1973)

Now canonized by The Criterion Collection, Ghatak’s beloved tragedy about the poor fishing villages on the banks of the river Titas is meandering to a fault, but is imaginative and poetic.

Continue reading →

February 16, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Sisters Brothers, The (2018)

The great Jacques Audiard’s first English-language film entertains with strong performances by Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, tackling the Western genre with rare wit and verve.

Continue reading →

February 15, 2021December 1, 2025 by Eternality Tan

I Live in Fear (1955)

One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.

Continue reading →

February 14, 2021August 19, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Sign of Leo, The (1962)

Rohmer’s first feature might not have been as lauded as his counterparts’ more groundbreaking works, but its exploration of luck (or lack thereof) through one man’s misery was arguably the closest a French New Wave film had been to acknowledging its neorealist influences.

Continue reading →

February 13, 2021July 12, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Seven Samurai (1954)

Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.

Continue reading →

Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

Featured

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

April (2024)

Exploring #22: Piotr Szulkin

Accattone (1961)

Plague, The (2025)

Central Park (1989)

Amoeba (2025)

F for Fake (1973)

Exploring #21: Roy Andersson

Devi (1960)

Author / Eternality Tan

Posts by Eternality Tan

All Is Forgiven (2007)

Matrix, The (1999)

Dearest Sister (2016)

Orpheus (1950)

Claire’s Knee (1970)

River Called Titas, A (1973)

Sisters Brothers, The (2018)

I Live in Fear (1955)

Sign of Leo, The (1962)

Seven Samurai (1954)