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Ikiru (1952)

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Blue Moon (2025)

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Love in the Afternoon (1972)

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Love (2024)

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Crash (1996)

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Orlando (1992)

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Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

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June 21, 2020August 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

  • Spielberg, Steven
  • 1977, Steven Spielberg, USA
  • 5 Comments

An astonishing sci-fi-drama that is also one of Spielberg’s very best, complete with awe-inspiring scenes and heartwarming embrace of humanity.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 8, 2020April 29, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Bhumika (1977)

  • Benegal, Shyam
  • 1977, India, Shyam Benegal
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A young woman-turned-actress forced into the Bollywood entertainment industry tries to escape loneliness through a myriad of love affairs in this melancholic tale starring the great Smita Patil.

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Rating: 4 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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March 29, 2020January 31, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Chess Players, The (1977)

  • Ray, Satyajit
  • 1977, India, Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Rayโ€™s only Hindi film is an engrossing treatment of how the pleasures of chess can take on political and symbolic significance.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 1, 2019July 3, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Iodo (1977)

  • Kim, Ki-young
  • 1977, Kim Ki-young, South Korea
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A strange if beautifully-shot work by Kim Ki-young about how myths might operate in the modern world.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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June 16, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Equus (1977)

  • Lumet, Sidney
  • 1977, Sidney Lumet, UK, USA
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4 stars

Some extraordinary performances are on show in this contentious if compelling psychological drama about passions and desires at the crossroads of religion and sex.

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April 28, 2019December 16, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Ascent, The (1977)

  • Criterion Collection, Shepitko, Larisa
  • 1977, Larisa Shepitko, Soviet Union
  • 2 Comments

One of the most haunting and harrowing of works centering on WWII, this chilling Soviet masterpiece will knock you cold both emotionally and psychologically.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.
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