Posts by Eternality Tan

For more than 17 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.

September 7, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Museo (2018)

This superb sophomore feature from one of the finest Mexican filmmakers working today is infectious with its artistry as it tells of two men who robbed a famous museum in Mexico City in 1985.

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September 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Import/Export (2007)

A Ukrainian woman travels to Austria while an Austrian man travels to Ukraine for work in what could be Seidl’s finest hour as a filmmaker—this is an extraordinary ultra-realist drama about the human costs of being dispensable in the East-West European economic flows.

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September 2, 2023September 2, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Love (2015)

Explicit unsimulated sex as an attraction aside, this is probably Noe’s worst film—too meandering, overlong and built around an annoying ‘inner thoughts’ voiceover that quickly becomes tiresome.

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August 31, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Revanche (2008)

An anti-thriller almost, in this assured film of two distinct halves about a vengeful criminal, an exploited prostitute, and a guilt-ridden policeman who all become implicated in life’s luck of the draw.

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August 29, 2023January 24, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Past Lives (2023)

A confident debut feature as this poignant drama about two Korean childhood sweethearts who meet again as adults in New York will likely work the tearducts.

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August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Golden Glove, The (2019)

Akin goes terribly off-course with this vile and nihilistic serial killer movie, based on a true story, yet with nothing valuable to say.

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August 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Amores Perros (2000)

One of the most important works of Mexican cinema to emerge at the turn of the century, this is still Inarritu’s finest achievement as separate narrative threads collide (literally), sparking a thought-provoking treatise on life, love and loss.

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August 23, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blow-Up (1966)

Antonioni’s first English-language film sees him in peak form, delivering a countercultural classic that is a masterclass in exploring the art and enigma of seeing, creating and deconstructing images.

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August 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Noroit (1976)

Seemingly existing outside of time, Rivette’s performative revenge tale featuring women pirates and sorceresses is one of his boldest experiments in film form, culminating in an occult-like finale of dancing bodies in trance.

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August 20, 2023September 10, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Probably Miyazaki’s most epic film inasmuch as it is a pure fantasy-adventure with strong themes of peaceful co-existence as battles are waged among humans, animals and spirits.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Museo (2018)

Import/Export (2007)

Love (2015)

Revanche (2008)

Past Lives (2023)

Golden Glove, The (2019)

Amores Perros (2000)

Blow-Up (1966)

Noroit (1976)

Princess Mononoke (1997)