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.

April 4, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Robin Hood (2010)

A “Gladiator-ised” Robin Hood without the right punch in this missed opportunity by Ridley Scott.

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April 3, 2022May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Compartment No. 6 (2021)

Kuosmanen’s wintry sophomore feature will satisfy patient viewers looking for a rewarding road trip (on tracks) as a disheartened Finnish woman acquaints with a feisty Russian man whilst travelling on a train from Moscow to Murmansk.

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April 2, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Fire (2022)

Denis tackles a ‘love triangle’-type drama with brooding intensity if rather conservatively, featuring two showy performances from Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.

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April 2, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, The (2016)

Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.

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April 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

City of Lost Children, The (1995)

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1995, France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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It’s probably one of the most visually stunning films from the ‘90s with incredible production design and cinematography, but it can be difficult to care for its fractured story or the array of eccentric characters.

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March 29, 2022November 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Novelist’s Film, The (2022)

Rather underwhelming and at best a minor effort, Hong’s latest explores the nature of being an artist, be it writing, filming or performing, while also functioning as a genteel love letter to his star and muse Kim Min-hee.

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March 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Othello (1952)

Shakespeare meets independent cinema of the highest order in Welles’ brilliant and vital take on the tragic story of the Moor of Venice.

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March 27, 2022March 3, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Oscars 2022 Prediction

As per tradition, here are my predictions for the Oscars 2022!

WW: Will Win
DH: Dark Horse

Prediction Results: 19/23 (22/23 including dark horses)

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March 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

About Elly (2009)

A Best Director winner at the Berlinale, Farhadi weaves a complex web of human relationships that become incredibly strained when a young woman mysteriously disappears in this riotous if unsettling drama.

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March 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Diary for My Children (1984)

The first of Meszaros’ powerful autobiographical ‘Diary’ films charts its young protagonist’s return from Russia to Hungary as communism rears its ugly head in the period after WWII.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Robin Hood (2010)

Compartment No. 6 (2021)

Fire (2022)

Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, The (2016)

City of Lost Children, The (1995)

Novelist’s Film, The (2022)

Othello (1952)

Oscars 2022 Prediction

About Elly (2009)

Diary for My Children (1984)