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Daniel Eagan

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As seen in: IMDb, MSN Singapore, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Canada, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asia, Rotten Tomatoes, South China Morning Post, Substack, Chron and
Covers:  Film and television industry
Doesn't Cover: Physics, engineering, food
Writing about film for @FilmmakerMag @SCMPNews @AmericanCine and whoever else will let me. Author America's Film Legacy for @BloomsburyPub

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Busan 2026 Review: INHERIT, Seductive Thai Insect Horror

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By Daniel Eagan Verified
| ScreenAnarchy Verified
A Thai film that screened at this year's Busan International Film Festival, Inherit arrived with minimal press. Billed as a midnight cult movie, it turned out to be an overtly sexy ride, one that completely won over a packed audience in the festival's 3000-seat outdoor venue. Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun, Inherit is based on a well-known Thai novel that's been filmed several times before. In the story, a curse is handed down over 800 years after the Orlan family betrays Woranart.
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EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE Review: Documenting a Disastrous Expedition

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By Daniel Eagan Verified
| ScreenAnarchy Verified
In films like Meru and Free Solo, Jimmy Chin set a high bar for mountaineering documentaries. His latest, co-directed with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, is an extremely challenging work that questions the very idea of climbing. Everest: The Other Side is pitched as a story about Jim Morrison's attempt to be the first person to ski down from the summit of Everest. Morrison wants to ski the North Side, a steep rock face that narrows through two couloirs.
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Paweł Pawlikowski on Fatherland , Watching Sandra Hüller Act, and Going Against the Grain of Modern Filmmaking

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By Daniel Eagan Verified
| The Film Stage
When Thomas Mann visited post-war Germany in 1949, he was perhaps the most famous living German author. More than that, Mann was an exemplar of a “good German,” someone who had disavowed the Nazi government, was stripped of his citizenship, and forced into exile. In Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Mann (Hanns Zischler) tours the ruins of a partitioned country with his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller).
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