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.

July 28, 2020June 18, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Junun (2015)

P.T. Anderson’s mesmerising hour-long shot-in-India documentary about the coming together of musicians to record an album is a musical dream transcending its raw, no-frills production.

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July 27, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

A strong feature debut about postgraduation aimlessness that milks hilarity through an array of self-analytical characters who are far too absorbed in their own ennui to really think for themselves, but Baumbach’s clever script does all the hard work for them.

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July 26, 2020April 22, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Ceremonie, La (1995)

Chabrol’s firm Hitchcockian grasp on the crime-mystery belies his even more remarkable work with his characters and narrative, making this one of the great works of his late career.

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July 26, 2020August 2, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Mystic River (2003)

Marking Eastwood’s late-career resurgence as a noteworthy filmmaker is this powerful drama about choices and consequences, backed by a solid ensemble cast that includes Oscar-winning performances by Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.

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July 24, 2020November 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Afternoon (2007)

Schanelec’s film here works like an outdoorsy chamber piece, based on Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, and shot with the kind of abstract and fluid ambiguity that has characterised most of her fascinating output.

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July 22, 2020May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi’s Revenge (1965)

This tenth instalment goes into darker territory with forced prostitution as one of its themes, but Zatoichi is in a serious mood to right wrongs with several well-choreographed fight scenes in store.

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July 21, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Mirch Masala (1987)

Despite being overly melodramatic and feeling somewhat dated, a woman’s stand against the patriarchal order is brought to life in Ketan Mehta’s rousing tale.

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July 20, 2020July 10, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Gold Rush, The (1925)

Chaplin’s greatest box-office success in the silent era remains a cultural touchstone—a parable of greed, romance and peril that is as hilarious and touching now as it was a century ago.

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July 19, 2020December 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Murder! (1930)

An enjoyable early murder mystery by Hitchcock that explores how theatre and life can intertwine in what is a precursor to the likes of ‘Stage Fright’ and ‘The Wrong Man’.

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July 18, 2020June 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

I Want to Go Home (1989)

An under-appreciated oddball of a film by Alain Resnais that dabbles with US-French cultural idiosyncrasies as well as the tension between popular culture and intellectual scholarship.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Junun (2015)

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

Ceremonie, La (1995)

Mystic River (2003)

Afternoon (2007)

Zatoichi’s Revenge (1965)

Mirch Masala (1987)

Gold Rush, The (1925)

Murder! (1930)

I Want to Go Home (1989)