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April (2024)

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Exploring #22: Piotr Szulkin

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Accattone (1961)

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Plague, The (2025)

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Central Park (1989)

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Amoeba (2025)

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F for Fake (1973)

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Exploring #21: Roy Andersson

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Devi (1960)

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It Was Just an Accident (2025)

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March 17, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Elephant Man, The (1980)

  • Criterion Collection, Lynch, David
  • 1980, David Lynch, USA
  • 4 Comments

This could be Lynch’s most enduring film – an emotionally-resonating and psychologically-rich work about discrimination and compassion based on the true story of a horribly disfigured man.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 16, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Wild at Heart (1990)

  • Lynch, David
  • 1990, David Lynch, USA
  • 1 Comment

Lynchโ€™s delirious Palme dโ€™Or-winning film starts very strongly but peters out as an incoherent if still fun, violent and erotic lovers-on-the-road movie.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 15, 2021October 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Robinson Crusoe (1954)

  • Bunuel, Luis
  • 1954, Luis Bunuel, Mexico, USA
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Bunuelโ€™s first film in colour was his closest flirtation with a Hollywood style of filmmaking, effortlessly adapting the famous story of a shipwrecked man who must live solitarily on an unknown island for an unknown number of years.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 12, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Minari (2020)

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  • 2020, Lee Issac Chung, USA
  • 6 Comments

The Korean immigrant experience in America, portrayed with intimacy and tenderness, and featuring two discoveries of the yearโ€” the promising child actor Alan Kim and Emile Mosseriโ€™s ethereal score. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 11, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Eraserhead (1977)

  • Criterion Collection, Lynch, David
  • 1977, David Lynch, USA
  • 2 Comments

Outstanding feature debut by David Lynch, this is as nightmarish and surreal as they come.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 9, 2021November 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Nomadland (2020)

  • Zhao, Chloe
  • 2020, Chloe Zhao, USA
  • 8 Comments

This Venice Golden Lion winner is an affecting film of elemental beauty, with a performance from Frances McDormand that is as natural as its cinematography, about folks living in vans in the American West. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 3, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Icarus (2017)

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  • 2017, Bryan Fogel, Documentary, USA
  • 1 Comment

Even if you donโ€™t give a hoot about the Olympics, this sensational Oscar-winning documentary about state-sanctioned sports doping in Russia is eye-opening and riveting. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 2, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

First Cow (2019)

  • Reichardt, Kelly
  • 2019, Kelly Reichardt, USA
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Reichardt continues to show why she is a master in making films where nothing quite happens, yet there is so much going on beneath the surface in this slow-moving if poignant tale of friendship between two men.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 26, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

News of the World (2020)

  • Greengrass, Paul
  • 2020, Paul Greengrass, USA
  • 4 Comments

Tom Hanks and the wildly-talented Helena Zengel strike up an odd partnership and just about lift this standard-fare Western-esque drama set in the Civil War period into something akin to serviceable entertainment. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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February 20, 2021February 11, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Matrix, The (1999)

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  • 1999, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, USA
  • 12 Comments

A landmark โ€˜90s sci-fi masterpiece with that rare combo of style and substanceโ€”two decades later, it loses none of its sobering philosophical inquiry.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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