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Rosetta(1999)
Dir.:Jean Luc and Pierre Dardenne It’s not for nothing that “Dardenneseque” has entered the lexicon of the modern cinephile.The Dardenne brothers from Belgium, who have been making riveting social...
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Noah(2014)
Dir.:Darren Aronofsky This is a film from the future, both mankind’s future and from the cinematic future of sci fi-films.It neatly presents a scenario that all scientists talk about- what if God is an...
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It’s about the opposition, silly(me)!!
The biggest human event in the history of the planet, the Indian General Election of 2014 is nearly over.Statistics have been repeated ad nauseum and it has been billed the most important election in...
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Kyuki Smriti Bhi Kabhi Student Thi..
I have a pathological hatred for saas bahu serials.That even Phd’s watch them is a source of eternal mystery to me.These serials and pyjama cricket of which IPL is the latest and the most vulgar form...
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Coming Home (2014)
Dir.:Zhang Yimou Mandarin with English Subtitles, currently in theatres in Singapore. Zhang Yimou is one of the greatest filmmakers of our times and the tallest figure of Chinese cinema.On the surface...
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Elippathayam( The Rat Trap,1981)
Elippatthayam tells the story of a family at a particular time in India’s history.It is set within the confines of a sprawling but slightly decrepit taravad or a traditional feudal home in Kerala, that...
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December 1 (2013, in Kannada Language with English subtitles)
Dir.:P Sheshadri P Sheshadri is the man to watch in the world of Indian parallel cinema.This quiet and sincere man has been making films in Kannada for more than 10 years now and each film is better...
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Boyhood( 2014)
Dir.: Richard Linklater Richard Linklaters new film is alive with the energy and confusion of its characters as they grow up in front of our eyes.Much has been said and written about the film being...
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Miss Lovely( 2012)
Dir.:Ashim Ahluwalia I have read Ashim Ahluwalias interviews with great interest and enjoyment.Here is a man unabashedly against much that Bollywood does and I find myself agreeing with most of his...
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Ankhon Dekhi(2014)
Dir.:Rajat Kapoor This film made me grin from ear to ear while my fingers were busy wiping away stubborn teardrops from the corners of my eyes. Ankhon Dekhi is a film with a big heart and a generous...
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Haider(2014)
Dir.:Vishal Bhardwaj I have a small personal connection with Hamlet.Its character Ophelia and her death is the subject of a sublime painting by Sir John Everett Millais. It is my Mona Lisa and hangs at...
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A school at the forefront in the back of beyond.
This series of pictures were taken in a small town in Kerela when I was part of the crew of a documentary on the master filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan being shot by another master filmmaker and my guru...
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Juliette Binoche- Beyond Three Colours.
Juliette Binoche is worth drooling over.She is among the very few actress in the world who has worked with the master directors of her time (Kieslowski, Kiarostami and Haneke to name a few) and...
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I am not Charlie Hebdo
This is not yet another massacre by Islamic fundamentalists. This time the victims are people who have made a career out of giving offence in a country where giving offence is legal and is called free...
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Mr. Turner (2014)
Dir.: Mike Leigh Mike Leigh has made a film that would have been very difficult to pull off for a lesser filmmaker, but it is most unlike any Mike Leigh film thus far.He is an auteur in the true...
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Dir.:Michael Haneke After the Gulf War broke out in 1991 we were “treated” to its live footage in India, courtesy CNN. All one could see were glowing green projectiles and I could never understand what...
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Still Alice (2014)
Dir.: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland My greatest fear is loosing my eyesight.My father lost an eye a few years back to retina detachment.I am myself quite myopic and consider spectacles to be one...
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Seemabaddha(Company Limited, 1971)
Dir.: Satyajit Ray Seemabaddha is the second instalment of Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta trilogy comprising of Pratidwandi(The Adversary, 1970) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman, 1976).In this film Ray shifts...
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Tahader Katha (1992)
Dir.:Buddhadeb Dasgupta Shibnath Mukherjee( Mithun Chakraborty) is a freedom fighter who was sent away to the Andaman’s for eight years.Solitary confinement (Kaala Paani) in the Andaman Islands was the...
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My Son the Fanatic(1997)
Dir.:Udayan Prasad Three teenaged British schoolgirls boarded a flight to Turkey last month and disappeared, presumably to join ISIS, the most deadly terrorist organisation on the planet.Grainy screen...
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