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Joyland (2022)

May 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

May 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Taxi Driver, A (2017)

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Afire (2023)

May 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Good Morning (1959)

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Lost and Beautiful (2015)

May 20, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Storm Over the Yangtze River (1969)

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Charcoal (2022)

May 16, 2023May 16, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Castle of Purity, The (1973)

May 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Hsi Shih: Beauty of Beauties (1965)

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May 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

  • Strickland, Peter
  • 2012, Peter Strickland, UK
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Strickland explores sound in film in tantalising new ways in this modern cult psychological horror about a British sound engineer hired to work on Italian giallo, who discovers something sinister behind-the-scenes.    

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Howards End (1992)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1992, UK
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It may seem formal and stately in its visual and narrative posturing, but this splendid Merchant-Ivory production achieves a rare sense of intimacy and grace as it tells a story of connections and consternations across different social classes.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

45 Years (2015)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 2015, UK
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An excellent Charlotte Rampling plays one half of a couple who have been together for more than four decades as they face a marital crisis that might prove to be insurmountable in Haigh’s delicate take on the meaning of love as refracted by secrets from the distant past. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 17, 2023February 19, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Banshees of Inisherin, The (2022)

  • McDonagh, Martin
  • 2022, Ireland, Martin McDonagh, UK
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One man doesn’t want to be friends with another man anymore in McDonagh’s beautifully-shot and darkly humourous film that boasts a sharp script and even sharper acting by the wonderful cast.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 31, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Unrelated (2007)

  • Hogg, Joanna
  • 2007, Joanna Hogg, UK
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Hogg’s debut feature is an enriching experience, almost Rohmer-esque in its focus on the bourgeois and their conversations as a middle-aged British woman in an unhappy marriage joins a friend’s family for a vacation in Tuscany. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Blackmail (1929)

  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • 1929, Alfred Hitchcock, UK
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Shot largely like a silent film, yet it is also Hitchcock’s first ‘talkie’, this curious early work of murder and intimidation could have been sharper if it had been shorter and tauter. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 25, 2022April 7, 2023 by Eternality Tan

While We Watched (2022)

  • Others
  • 2022, Documentary, India, UK
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A brave broadcast journalist warns of widespread nationalistic propaganda on television news in this powerful indictment of the sorry state of media and hate politics in India.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 9, 2022November 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1949, UK
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Morally dubious yet perversely funny, this is one of the most outstanding black comedies produced by the Ealing Studios as one outsider with a royal lineage seeks to eliminate all that stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sexy Beast (2000)

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  • 2000, Jonathan Glazer, UK
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Glazer’s stylish feature debut is quite sensational—a hilariously tense showdown between a laidback Ray Winstone and a foul-mouthed Ben Kingsley, the latter hoping to recruit the former, a ‘retired’ safecracker, for a final heist.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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September 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Caravaggio (1986)

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  • 1986, UK
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The great 17th-century Italian painter is given the screen treatment in Jarman’s idiosyncratic, if at times anachronistic, deconstruction of a brilliant but tormented figure, featuring an indelible supporting performance by Tilda Swinton in her acting debut.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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