Skip to content
  • View menu
  • View featured posts
  • View sidebar

Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

  • About ET
  • Writings
  • Reviews
    • Latest & Upcoming
    • 0-9
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-T
    • U-Z
    • Directors: A-C
    • Directors: D-F
    • Directors: G-I
    • Directors: J-L
    • Directors: M-O
    • Directors: P-R
    • Directors: S-T
    • Directors: U-Z

Featured

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

April 19, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! (1970)

April 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Knife + Heart (2018)

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Father, The (2020)

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ammonite (2020)

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Outguess ET 2021 – Oscar Prediction Contest

April 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Face You Deserve, The (2004)

April 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

BAFTAs 2021 Prediction

April 11, 2021April 15, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Binding Sentiments (1969)

April 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Below Sea Level (2008)

April 8, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Categories

Tags

1962 1963 1965 1967 1972 1979 1985 1986 1987 1988 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Canada China Dekalog Denmark Documentary Eric Rohmer France Germany Hong Kong Hou, Hsiao-Hsien India Iran Italy Japan Jean-Luc Godard Joel & Ethan Coen Krzysztof Kieslowski Martin Scorsese Mexico Netflix New Zealand Philippines Poland Quentin Tarantino Rainer Werner Fassbinder Singapore South Korea Soviet Union Spain Stanley Kubrick Sweden Taiwan Turkey UK USA West Germany Zatoichi Zhang, Yimou

Follow Eternality Tan on WordPress.com

Follow Me

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Supports:

Supports:

Supports:

Supports

Supports:

Tag / 1989

October 11, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Do the Right Thing (1989)

  • Criterion Collection, Lee, Spike
  • 1989, Spike Lee, USA
  • 5 Comments

A cultural touchstone in modern American cinema, Spike Lee’s breakthrough tell-it-as-it-is treatment of racism is even more sobering to view more than 30 years later.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 18, 2020 by Eternality Tan

I Want to Go Home (1989)

  • Resnais, Alain
  • 1989, Alain Resnais, France
  • Leave a comment

An under-appreciated oddball of a film by Alain Resnais that dabbles with US-French cultural idiosyncrasies as well as the tension between popular culture and intellectual scholarship.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
June 14, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Mystery Train (1989)

  • Criterion Collection, Jarmusch, Jim
  • 1989, Jim Jarmusch, USA
  • Leave a comment

An essential early work of Jarmusch, this is a cinematic hymn to Memphis city’s rich musical history, filmed as a connecting triptych of oddball characters of various nationalities over the course of one day and night in this ‘ghost town’. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
September 12, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Killer, The (1989)

  • Criterion Collection, Woo, John
  • 1989, Hong Kong, John Woo
  • 3 Comments

4.5 stars

This is a top-tier ‘heroic bloodshed’ picture by John Woo—a masterclass in action filmmaking with that rare commitment to pathos.

Continue reading →

December 3, 2018June 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

City of Sadness, A (1989)

  • Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
  • 1989, Hou, Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan
  • 11 Comments

This historical epic about post-WWII Taiwan is one of Hou’s most ambitious and encompassing works, and also his first true masterpiece.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.
Continue reading →
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×