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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)

June 6, 2026June 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Last Metro, The (1980)

June 1, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Blade, The (1995)

May 26, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #23: Mike De Leon

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by Eternality Tan

How to Divorce During the War (2026)

May 22, 2026May 22, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Useful Ghost, A (2025)

May 16, 2026May 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Citizen Kane (1941)

May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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Category / Criterion Collection

May 1, 2020May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1964, Japan, Kazuo Ikehiro, Zatoichi
  • 1 Comment

This sixth installment benefits from the wild, manic energy sustained by relatively new director Kazuo Ikehiro.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 26, 2020May 7, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Dead Man (1995)

  • Criterion Collection, Jarmusch, Jim
  • 1995, Jim Jarmusch, USA
  • 5 Comments

A stylish revisionist anti-Western masterpiece by Jim Jarmusch that is both surreal, spiritual and poetic, backed by a stunning improvised โ€˜liveโ€™ score by Neil Young.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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April 20, 2020 by Eternality Tan

State of Siege (1972)

  • Costa-Gavras, Criterion Collection
  • 1972, Costa-Gavras, France
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Costa-Gavras sets his sights on Latin America in this superbly-constructed political-thriller that raises questions about the United Statesโ€™ complicit involvement in counterinsurgency, torture and violence.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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April 18, 2020May 24, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Home and the World, The (1984)

  • Criterion Collection, Ray, Satyajit
  • 1984, India, Satyajit Ray
  • 1 Comment

Rayโ€™s third adaptation of Rabindranath Tagoreโ€™s work late on in his career is a quietly-composed and deliberately-paced tale about the intertwining of domestic and national affairs. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 18, 2020July 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Au revoir les enfants (1987)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1987, France, Louis Malle
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One of Malle’s finest works, this restrained drama builds up slowly, only to leave you emotionally shattered by the end of it. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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April 17, 2020May 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Zatoichi on the Road (1963)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1963, Japan, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Zatoichi
  • 2 Comments

It does feel overly-plotted, but this fifth โ€˜Zatoichiโ€™ installment builds up to an all-out street gang war.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)

  • Criterion Collection, Varda, Agnes
  • 1977, Agnes Varda, France
  • 1 Comment

Vardaโ€™s beautiful work about the deep friendship between two French women trying to find meaning in their womanhood is fiercely feministic underneath its warm, understated filmmaking style.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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April 8, 2020May 11, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Chimes at Midnight (1966)

  • Criterion Collection, Welles, Orson
  • 1966, Orson Welles, Spain
  • 1 Comment

Arguably Orson Wellesโ€™ finest hour as a director and actor, this resurrected masterpiece remains to be one of cinemaโ€™s most extraordinary adaptations of Shakespeare. 

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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April 5, 2020May 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Trafic (1971)

  • Criterion Collection, Tati, Jacques
  • 1971, France, Jacques Tati
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This late career work by French comic master Jacques Tati has uncharacteristic pacing problems, though if you like automobiles, it is a charming snapshot of cars and trucks of the early 1970s.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 5, 2020May 9, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Playtime (1967)

  • Criterion Collection, Tati, Jacques
  • 1967, France, Jacques Tati
  • 5 Comments

The great Jacques Tati delivers outrageously inventive comedy visual gags in some of the most elaborate mise-en-scene committed to film.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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