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.

January 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

RoboCop (1987)

Paul Verhoeven’s Hollywood breakthrough remains a standout violent sci-fi actioner from the ’80s and a decent commentary on mankind’s ill-fated fascination with science and technology.

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January 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Love After Love (2020)

Ann Hui’s latest period piece has a slow-burning elegance, but despite the array of world-class talents involved—Christopher Doyle, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the late Emi Wada—and adapted from an Eileen Chang text no less, it feels too thematically shallow to work.

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January 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Frances Ha (2012)

Baumbach’s charming if at times elegiac black-and-white drama about self-discovery and acceptance features an indelible performance by Greta Gerwig.

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January 28, 2022April 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hero, A (2021)

The finest film Farhadi has put out in years—here he skilfully draws out a complex, delicate drama with weighty themes of morality, truth and honour from a simple premise: a debt-ridden prisoner and a bag of gold coins.

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January 27, 2022February 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Licorice Pizza (2021)

PTA’s indelible 1970s romance between a teenage boy and an older woman (Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim are sensational) is akin to a cinematic relaxant, suffused with good, nostalgic vibes yet there’s enough of a slight overdose of unpredictability and peril to last the course.

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January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Cheerful Wind (1981)

A light-hearted Taiwanese romance starring Feng Fei Fei that sees Hou dabbling in commercial genre cinema early on in his career—there’s little in the way of depth but it is still moderately entertaining.

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January 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

Three quite indelible stories about people in love (or not) as coincidences threaten to derail their intimate intentions in this charming Rohmerian comedy set around the beautiful spaces of Paris.

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January 22, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Happiest Girl in the World, The (2009)

Radu Jude’s debut feature takes cinematic tedium to mesmerizingly hilarious levels as he follows a young girl who is obliged to shoot for a commercial after winning a car in a lucky draw.

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January 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

Featuring arguably a career-best performance by Romy Schneider, Zulawski’s work here is enigmatic and indescribably haunting as it dissects the meaning of love and desire through the psychological destabilisation of its characters.

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January 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

5×2 (2004)

Told in five chapters in reverse chronological order, Ozon charts the disintegration of a marriage in this well-acted bittersweet film.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

RoboCop (1987)

Love After Love (2020)

Frances Ha (2012)

Hero, A (2021)

Licorice Pizza (2021)

Cheerful Wind (1981)

Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

Happiest Girl in the World, The (2009)

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

5×2 (2004)