‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
Exploring #10: Miguel Gomes
Author / Eternality Tan
In Bed with Victoria (2016)
An enjoyable sophomore rom-com from Triet about ‘courtrooms and bedrooms’ as a lawyer’s personal life becomes murkily entwined with her professional exploits.
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Woman Next Door, The (1981)
A married man finds out that his ex-lover and her husband have moved into a neighbouring house in Truffaut’s penultimate feature about the inevitability of extramarital affairs—it covers familiar thematic ground but the director’s sure-handed grip on the narrative gives it illicit thrills.
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Society of the Snow (2023)
The sheer human will to survive is depicted in this unimaginably true story that is told viscerally and sensitively, based on the tragic Andes flight disaster of 1972.
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Outguess ET 2024 – Oscar Prediction Contest
The 11th edition of my annual Oscar prediction contest is back!
I will share my predictions on the weekend of 8-10 Mar. The Oscars will happen on Mon 11 Mar, 7.00am (SGT).
Instructions:
- The contest is open to folks residing in Singapore only.
- Copy and paste the below categories into an email.
- Indicate clearly for each category whom you think will win the Oscar (‘WW‘) and one dark horse (‘DH‘).
- Email to eternalitytan@gmail.com with the subject header ‘Outguess ET 2024’ latest by 7 Mar, 11.59pm (SGT).
How to win:
- Predicting correctly ‘Will Win’ earns you 3 points per category
- Predicting correctly ‘Dark Horse’ earns you 1 point per category
- Score more points than me – a tie doesn’t count
- If there is more than one winner with the same points, the participant who submitted his or her predictions earlier (based on email timestamp) will win.
If you win, you will receive the following prize (pick one):
- 2x The Projector vouchers worth SGD24
- 1x Criterion Blu-ray from my collection (pick from selected list) worth SGD25
Here are the 23 categories in contention:
- Best Picture
- Best International Feature
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Documentary Feature
- Best Director
- Best Leading Actor
- Best Leading Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Film Editing
- Best Production Design
- Best Costume Design
- Best Hair & Makeup
- Best Original Score
- Best Original Song
- Best Sound
- Best Visual Effects
- Best Live Action Short
- Best Animated Short
- Best Documentary Short
Have fun and good luck!
Europa (1991)
A stylish, aesthetic tour de force, particularly in the use of rear projection techniques, this noir-ish melodrama about an American train conductor in 1945 Germany tells of the precarious postwar atmosphere of remnant Nazism.
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Paradise: Faith (2012)
This could be Seidl’s most provocative work about the moral slippage of religious fanatics, as the faith of an extremely devoted Catholic Austrian woman is tested by the unexpected return of her handicapped Muslim husband.
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Oh, Sun (1970)
This Locarno Golden Leopard winner, through its radical film language and vibrant experimentation with form, speaks to the disenchanting African experience in France where the Blacks have been continually ostracised, discriminated and exoticised.
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Cercle Rouge, Le (1970)
A masterful crime thriller by Melville with one of the most intricate heist sequences ever shot.
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20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
Harrowing but essential, this ground-zero document of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the vantage point of an Associated Press journalist in the besieged city of Mariupol bluntly reminds us of the humanitarian cost of war.
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