Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 13 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.

November 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Little Women (1994)

This ‘90s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel may be traditionally told, but it is perfectly cast and remains possibly the most endearing of them all.

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November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Full Moon in Paris (1984)

A young woman tests the limits of her romantic relationship by concurrently experimenting with being ‘single’ in one of Rohmer’s bleaker offerings on the existential nature of love.

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November 11, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Herzog takes us into the inaccessible Chauvet Cave in Southern France containing the oldest drawings (more than 30,000 years old!) known to humanity in this fascinating lo-fi documentary about art transcending space and time.

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November 9, 2020November 23, 2020 by Eternality Tan

To the Ends of the Earth (2019)

The banality of cultural tourism as variety show is poetically expressed in the hands of Kiyoshi Kurosawa as a Japanese crew travel to Uzbekistan for work—it also features an underrated performance by ex-AKB48 J-pop star Atsuko Maeda.

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November 7, 2020November 7, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Still Life (2006)

A stunning work of geographical and existential malaise and one of Jia Zhangke’s finest docu-fictive accomplishments, gorgeously shot along the Yangtze River in Fengjie County as a man and a woman separately search for their estranged spouse amid the human impact of the Three Gorges Dam’s construction.

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November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Trial of the Chicago 7, The (2020)

Sorkin’s a reliable screenwriter but lacks an imaginative cinematic eye as a director, and it shows in this uneven, and at times, stilted dramatisation of a key case in 20^th-century US legal history.

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November 5, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Tokyo Sonata (2008)

An uncommunicative Japanese family whose patriarch has lost his job is placed under the microscope in this Cannes award-winning melodrama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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November 4, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Mughal-E-Azam (1960)

A milestone of popular Indian cinema, this enduring classic is a lavish epic about the taboo romance between a prince and a court dancer, and how love might triumph over power.

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November 4, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Molly’s Game (2017)

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut doesn’t break new ground, but offers familiarity including his penchant for rapid-fire conversations that are delivered with gusto by Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba.

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November 3, 2020November 4, 2020 by Eternality Tan

SGIFF unveils a tight and diverse hybrid programme for its 31st edition

The 31st Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) will adopt the hybrid format with cinema and online film screenings from 26 November to 6 December 2020, featuring more than 70 films across 49 countries. There will be numerous live online panels as well, which can be accessed both locally and overseas.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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