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.

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)

Wakamatsu mixes exploitative sex with subversive politics, but the film doesn’t really compel and is too long-winded.

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October 20, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

More educative than cinematic, Herzog’s documentary about technology, particularly the affordances and perils of the Internet, lacks the cutting-edge incisiveness of more well-developed treatises on the subject.

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October 19, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)

The emerging Georgian filmmaker’s second feature is an entrancing anti-romanticisation of the romance tale, recalling the artful whimsy and playful storytelling of Miguel Gomes.

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October 18, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Lady Vengeance (2005)

The third part of Park’s ‘Vengeance’ trilogy explores sin, atonement and poetic justice in the only way he can—through an intricately-plotted narrative, strong visual flair and explicit violence.

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October 18, 2021June 11, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Fish Tank (2009)

Flies the British social realism flag sky-high—this is a remarkably piercing yet sensual work by Andrea Arnold, not to mention featuring a breathtaking performance by Katie Jarvis.

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October 17, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Cow (2021)

Arnold makes a detour into documentary filmmaking as her camera brings us up close and personal with several cows in a dairy farm, capturing their magnificence as well as the sheer drudgery of their reality.

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October 16, 2021March 18, 2025 by Eternality Tan

New World, The (2005)

Certainly not one of Malick’s best, but this extraordinarily beautiful film—in its 172-minute extended cut—sees the director at his most lyrical and self-indulgent.

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October 16, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Land, The (1969)

This is feisty if sometimes way too melodramatic filmmaking from Chahine as he pits poor and frustrated peasants against the rising tide of self-serving capitalism.

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October 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Guerilla Fighter, The (1973)

Sen channels the unorthodoxy of Godard in this fiercely political docufiction about a Marxist-leaning radical tasked to hide in a middle-class woman’s luxury apartment.

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October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Cat Returns, The (2002)

Fantasy encroaches into reality in this slight if charming little anime from Studio Ghibli that might just finally make non-feline lovers realise why cats are to be fussed about.

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Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

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Posts by Eternality Tan

Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)

Lady Vengeance (2005)

Fish Tank (2009)

Cow (2021)

New World, The (2005)

Land, The (1969)

Guerilla Fighter, The (1973)

Cat Returns, The (2002)