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Three Colors: White (1994)

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Family Life (1971)

June 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Love Eterne, The (1963)

June 1, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

May 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Joyland (2022)

May 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

May 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Taxi Driver, A (2017)

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Afire (2023)

May 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Good Morning (1959)

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Lost and Beautiful (2015)

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Tag / 1963

June 1, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Love Eterne, The (1963)

  • Li, Han-Hsiang
  • 1963, Hong Kong, Li, Han-Hsiang
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As much a cultural touchstone as it is an exemplar of the Huangmei opera genre, this classic of classics sucks you into its overt melodramatism and a heartrending story of everlasting love as a woman dressed as a man in order to attend university meets another man. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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October 10, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Ikarie XB-1 (1963)

  • Others
  • 1963, Czechoslovakia
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The Czech New Wave makes a rare foray into sci-fi in this well-made work from the ’60s dealing with the existential perils of space exploration and the unknown.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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August 8, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Carabiniers, Les (1963)

  • Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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This is every bit how you might imagine Godard making an anti-war film would look and feel like—it’s darkly comic, blistering in its attack on warmongers and a fairly underrated work of his early phase. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 17, 2022May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Servant, The (1963)

  • Losey, Joseph
  • 1963, Joseph Losey, UK
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A standout British film from the ‘60s, this hypnotic take on class and sex with tantalising bits of latent homosexuality, sees director Joseph Losey, writer Harold Pinter and actor Dirk Bogarde at the top of their game. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 13, 2021March 2, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Something Different (1963)

  • Chytilova, Vera
  • 1963, Czechoslovakia, Vera Chytilova
  • 1 Comment

Chytilova’s strong, effortless feature debut blurs the lines between fiction and documentary, featuring two women—a restless housewife in an extramarital affair and Eva Bosakova, one of Czechoslovakia’s most famous Olympic gymnasts.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

High and Low (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1963, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
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Kurosawa’s underrated gem of a masterpiece that is both an emotionally tense domestic drama, and a hot and sweaty police procedural.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 2, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Dementia 13 (1963)

  • Coppola, Francis Ford
  • 1963, Francis Ford Coppola, USA
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An early horror B-movie by Coppola, produced by Roger Corman, with effective mood-setting but an undercooked story.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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January 25, 2021October 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Le petit soldat (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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Banned for a short while in France, Godard’s second feature boldly and stylistically depicts the moral complexities of the Algerian war, throwing audiences at the time an early political curveball.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 11, 2021August 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Basilisks, The (1963)

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  • 1963, Lina Wertmuller
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Three young men waste their time away in a lazy provincial town at the South of Italy in this assured first feature by the trailblazing Lina Wertmuller, with a lovely score by Ennio Morricone.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Contempt (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1963, France, Jean-Luc Godard
  • 4 Comments

Emotions run deep in Godard’s masterwork as it charts the deterioration of a couple’s marriage whilst set against the chronic uncertainties of a movie production.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

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