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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)

May 20, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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Tag / Hong Kong

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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February 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Boat People (1982)

  • Criterion Collection, Hui, Ann
  • 1982, Ann Hui, Hong Kong
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It’s tragic and overly melodramatic for sure, but Ann Hui’s then-controversial work about the sufferings of the Vietnamese post-Vietnam War remains a significant entry of the burgeoning Hong Kong New Wave.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Center Stage (1991)

  • Kwan, Stanley
  • 1991, Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan
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The director’s cut does sometimes feel its length, but otherwise this is a solid biopic by Stanley Kwan about one of the most eminent Chinese actresses from early 20th century, played by a stunning Maggie Cheung.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Heroic Trio, The (1993)

  • To, Johnnie
  • 1993, Hong Kong, Johnnie To
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To deliberately takes B-movie action preposterousness to wildly delirious levels in this work of inventive imagination and delightful campiness. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 12, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Rouge (1987)

  • Criterion Collection, Kwan, Stanley
  • 1987, Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan
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Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung star in this movie straddling between two eras with a ghost story in the mix, directed by Stanley Kwan with a strong sense of melancholy and nostalgia.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hand, The (2004)

  • Criterion Collection, Wong, Kar Wai
  • 2004, Hong Kong, Wong, Kar Wai
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Wong’s expanded version of his short for the ‘Eros’ anthology is more erotic and fatalistic than usual, and also an aesthetic and thematic extension of the world he created with ‘In the Mood for Love’.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 5, 2022November 17, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Love Unto Waste (1986)

  • Kwan, Stanley
  • 1986, Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan
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This early underrated work from Stanley Kwan may seem like it is all over the place in terms of tone and storytelling, but he just about pulls it off in its depiction of wasted youth and listlessness.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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June 3, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Lan Yu (2001)

  • Kwan, Stanley
  • 2001, China, Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan
  • 2 Comments

Stanley Kwan’s gay drama, set in 1980s Beijing, feels more impressionistic than a deeply-felt journey with its characters, though the performances are compelling enough to overcome its rather lean narrative.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Three (2016)

  • To, Johnnie
  • 2016, Hong Kong, Johnnie To
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To’s odd anti-action structural experiment takes too long to build up a self-contained story set in a hospital ward as doctors, cops and criminals try to outwit one another psychologically, that when the action comes, it feels like a stylistic distraction.    

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 5, 2022May 11, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Revolution of Our Times (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Documentary, Hong Kong
  • 1 Comment

This politically stirring and at times truly heartbreaking Golden Horse-winning documentary gives us that intense journalistic, on the ground experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests from start to end.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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