Posts by Eternality Tan

For 20 years, ET has been 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, and Arsenal FC.

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Mandi (1983)

Lengthy but still an entertaining piece centering on a bordello and its ragtag of vibrant characters as Shyam Benegal balances humour and serious women issues with skill.

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December 3, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Haunted Castle, The (1921)

An early below-average work from Murnau that is neither here nor there from a genre perspective, whether as a murder mystery or horror film.

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December 1, 2020December 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Story of Qiu Ju, The (1992)

This culturally vibrant but slowly-paced drama lacks the emotional pull that Zhang Yimou’s earlier films are famous for.

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November 30, 2020August 20, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Contempt (1963)

Emotions run deep in Godard’s masterwork as it charts the deterioration of a couple’s marriage whilst set against the chronic uncertainties of a movie production.

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November 29, 2020July 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

13th (2016)

It may sometimes feel too didactic, but this documentary about the proliferation of prisons in the US as set in the context of racial inequality has its moments of shocking power.

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November 28, 2020September 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Neon Bull (2015)

A man involved in Brazilian rodeo dreams of being in the fashion industry in Mascaro’s eye-opening, naturalistic work.

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November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Song of Sparrows, The (2008)

Majid Majidi’s Berlinale Best Actor winner is a largely assured drama centering on the rural-urban divide in Iran through the eyes of a poor family.

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November 27, 2020August 15, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Ramkhind (2001)

An ethnographic documentary on the Warli tribe in India, who are isolated from the modern world, as Dutta, with a keen observational eye, captures their daily lives, rituals, and myths, as if he had time-travelled back centuries with a camera in tow.

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November 25, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Wonderstruck (2017)

A languidly-paced work that has a great concept exploring human connections across time, with some moments of sublime filmmaking, but Haynes’ overall grasp of tone and thematic intent is a letdown.

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November 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Coachman, The (1961)

This Silver Berlin Bear winner is one of the great tear-jerking melodramas from the Golden Age of Korean cinema, depicting the struggles of a working-class family as they find their self-respect and dignity constantly being attacked.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Mandi (1983)

Haunted Castle, The (1921)

Story of Qiu Ju, The (1992)

Contempt (1963)

13th (2016)

Neon Bull (2015)

Song of Sparrows, The (2008)

Ramkhind (2001)

Wonderstruck (2017)

Coachman, The (1961)