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.

July 18, 2020August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Rope (1948)

No matter how many times you see it, it still holds up well as one of Hitchcock’s most morbid and suspenseful works.

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July 18, 2020August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Spellbound (1945)

An underrated gem by Hitchcock about psychoanalysis and the guilt complex, featuring a stirring Oscar-winning score by Miklos Rozsa.

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July 17, 2020September 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Third Generation, The (1979)

A relentless if chaotic sound design intensifies this controversial ensemble drama about a group of middle-class European terrorists trying to find an impetus for action amid the lull of domestication.

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July 14, 2020April 27, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Autumn’s Tale, An (1987)

Chow Yun-Fat and Cherie Chung sparkle in Mabel Cheung’s earnest and easy-going romance, shot in the grimy streets of New York.

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July 13, 2020July 15, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Painter and the Thief, The (2020)

Art, crime and the human condition intersect deftly in this beguiling documentary about the unlikely friendship between a painter and the thief who stole her paintings.

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July 12, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

One from the Heart (1982)

A skimpy storyline and uninteresting lead characters mar this artistic antecedent to ‘Moulin Rouge’ and ‘La La Land’.

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July 12, 2020October 20, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Into the Abyss (2011)

Herzog’s take on capital punishment from a humanistic standpoint – haunting, hopeful, and strange.

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July 12, 2020September 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

One of the greatest feats by any filmmaker in the history of cinema, Herzog’s film pits personal ambition against the forces of nature as a man desires to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

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July 12, 2020September 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Herzog brilliantly transports us to a bygone world and to the edge of madness as power and greed clash furiously with nature and survival in this great masterwork of 1970s German cinema.

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July 11, 2020August 4, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Anand (1971)

Arguably Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s finest film, a bittersweet comedy about a doctor and his cancer patient starring Rajesh Khanna in a delightfully hilarious performance and Amitabh Bachchan in a breakthrough supporting role.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Rope (1948)

Spellbound (1945)

Third Generation, The (1979)

Autumn’s Tale, An (1987)

Painter and the Thief, The (2020)

One from the Heart (1982)

Into the Abyss (2011)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Anand (1971)