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.

March 29, 2020January 31, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Chess Players, The (1977)

Satyajit Ray’s only Hindi film is an engrossing treatment of how the pleasures of chess can take on political and symbolic significance.

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March 28, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Youth Without Youth (2007)

One of Coppola’s weakest efforts in what is a heavy-handed and muddling mess of a film, despite the good performance by Tim Roth.

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March 28, 2020October 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Godfather: Part III, The (1990)

Good but not great, this final film of the ‘Godfather’ trilogy should still please the more generous fans.

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March 28, 2020August 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Apocalypse Now (1979)

This is indisputably one of the absolute finest war films in the history of cinema.

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March 28, 2020July 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Conversation, The (1974)

Arguably Coppola’s most important and still relevant film to date.

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March 27, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Divine Intervention (2002)

At times jaw-droppingly hilarious, Elia Suleiman’s absurdist work here rightfully makes light of the fractured Israeli-Palestinian relations through a series of increasingly outlandish scenarios.

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March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Confession, The (1970)

Costa-Gavras paints a desolate and powerful political picture of an innocent high-ranking communist party official being interrogated and tortured in service of the frightening if absurd Soviet bloc show trials of the 1950s.

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March 25, 2020May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

This fourth ‘Zatoichi’ movie sees loyalties put to the test and swordfighting action on a larger scale.

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March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Tribe, The (2014)

Polished yet brutally raw, this Ukrainian sign language film is an audacious piece of cinema.

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March 23, 2020January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Aferim! (2015)

A gorgeously shot pitch-black comedy that brings to light something long forgotten – Gypsy slavery, with an interest in deepening our intellectual engagement with Romania and its dark history.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Chess Players, The (1977)

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Godfather: Part III, The (1990)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Conversation, The (1974)

Divine Intervention (2002)

Confession, The (1970)

Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

Tribe, The (2014)

Aferim! (2015)