Continue reading →A Palestinian father-son road trip through Nazareth is handled with nuance and grace despite thorny issues of family and nationalism in this understated offering.
Author / Eternality Tan
Insult, The (2017)
The melodramatic treatment of its politically-charged subject matter prevents the film from hitting the high notes of a truly thought-provoking work, but it is no doubt riveting and accessible to a wide audience.
Waltz with Bashir: An Inquiry into Reality
(Written in 2009, and first published 25 Dec 2009)
The Film
First premiered at Cannes in May 2008, Waltz with Bashir subsequently won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and earned an Oscar nomination in a similar category.
Directed and written by Ari Folman, an Israeli who is not exactly prolific in his work, Waltz with Bashir is only his third film in 12 years after Clara Hakedosha (1996) and Made In Israel (2001).
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Continue reading →This slow-burn crime-thriller is arguably the Coens’ finest achievement.
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Continue reading →This wild concoction of profane humour and bizarre antics, and an unusual narrative that doesn’t quite amount to anything, is perhaps the most cultish of all Coens’ pictures, but not necessarily one of their best.
Fargo (1996)
Continue reading →The Coens’ sense of the macabre is near-perfected in one of their most beloved films.
Barton Fink (1991)
Continue reading →One of the Coens’ very best – a fine character study and a strong allegory of what is rotten about Hollywood filmmaking.
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Continue reading →Only their third feature, the Coens show that they could do a 1930s gangster movie in a style of their own.
Raising Arizona (1987)
Continue reading →The Coens show their versatility early on in their career in this quirky take on farcical comedy.
Song of the Exile (1990)
Continue reading →Ann Hui’s underrated work is a masterful commingling of memory, identity and diasporas.
