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My Father’s Shadow (2025)

June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Touki bouki (1973)

June 12, 2026June 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

To Singapore, with Love (2013)

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Last Metro, The (1980)

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Blade, The (1995)

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Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

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How to Divorce During the War (2026)

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Useful Ghost, A (2025)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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Category / Criterion Collection

June 18, 2022January 18, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Vie de Jesus, La (1997)

  • Criterion Collection, Dumont, Bruno
  • 1997, Bruno Dumont, France
  • 3 Comments

A fascinating feature debut by Dumont, who captures the tedium of French countryside life by finding beauty in the mundane and the horrific in the nonchalant, working with non-professional actors with aplomb.ย  ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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June 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

La bรชte humaine (1938)

  • Criterion Collection, Renoir, Jean
  • 1938, France, Jean Renoir
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A well-paced and engaging genre effort by Renoir that mixes psychological drama with the crime-noir, featuring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon as doomed lovers.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 4, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Mr. Klein (1976)

  • Criterion Collection, Losey, Joseph
  • 1976, France, Joseph Losey
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There are two Robert Kleins (oneโ€™s a Jew) in WWII Nazi-occupied France in this slow-burning, finely-tuned Kafkaesque wrong identity mystery-thriller, starring a paranoid Alain Delon.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 16, 2022July 15, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Autumn Tale, An (1998)

  • Criterion Collection, Rohmer, Eric
  • 1998, Eric Rohmer, France
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A winner of Best Screenplay at Venice, Rohmerโ€™s final โ€˜Four Seasonsโ€™ entry is an incisive and revelatory take on finding romance at a much older age, featuring two outstanding performances by Marie Riviere and Beatrice Romand.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 7, 2022May 7, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Enemy of the People, An (1989)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Satyajit
  • 1989, India, Satyajit Ray
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Holy water from a temple is found to be contaminated in this decent adaptation of Henrik Ibsenโ€™s play, situated within Rayโ€™s cultural milieu as this straightforwardly-told drama sees science and religion cross swords. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Wild Strawberries (1957)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 2 Comments

A ruminative drama on the fear of death and loneliness, matched by a great performance by Victorย Sjostrom.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 25, 2022July 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1955, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
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Bergmanโ€™s breakthrough international success is a witty if flirtatious comedy about the laws of sexual attraction and matters of the heart.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

  • Criterion Collection, Kubrick, Stanley
  • 1964, Stanley Kubrick, UK, USA
  • 3 Comments

Kubrickโ€™s pitch-black Cold War comedy is absolute gold, intelligently poking fun at the sheer absurdity of nuclear war and rhetoric.ย 

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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April 19, 2022June 24, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Hawks and Sparrows (1966)

  • Criterion Collection, Pasolini, Pier Paolo
  • 1966, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini
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A talking Marxist-leaning crow accompanies an old man and his son as Pasolini fashions a lukewarm comedy with absurdist undertones as it pokes fun at religion, politics and society.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Donkey Skin (1970)

  • Criterion Collection, Demy, Jacques
  • 1970, France, Jacques Demy
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Demy goes full-blown with his colour palette and visual style in this rather straightforward and sporadically engaging fairy tale about an incestuous king who wants to marry his daughter.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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