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Readers Write In #578: Succession – A Saga of Kendall and Logan
By Kartik Iyer The things that stand out about Brian Cox, who plays the character of Logan Roy in Succession, are his nose, jaws, and eyes. The jaws get a helping from the white-grey beard, but his nose and eyes appear as they are: stark, sharp, and cold. Logan has the capacity to unnerve people with […]
Interview: Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Richard Madden (Citadel…)
April 18, 2023
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Readers Write In #564: Thoughts on Tár
March 26, 2023
By Vijay Ramanathan Todd Field’s excellent Tár is fundamentally a pseudo-message movie nestled within a character study that’s masked as a biopic of a fictional artist (phew!… that was a mouthful). Lydia Tár, brilliantly portrayed by Cate Blanchett, is a vehicle for Field to question what we see happening around us with art and artists. […]
Interview: Daniel Caltagirone (Thangalaan)
March 17, 2023
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Readers Write In #545: A Woody Allen fan rant
February 3, 2023
By G Waugh There may be many reasons to admire a film maker like Woody Allen. You can call him the funniest man you have come across in the movies, or you can talk about the variety in his oeuvre or you can talk about his profound dialogue or share some of his Nietzschean views […]
Readers Write In #543: Children of Men
January 22, 2023
By Karthik Amarnath Disney, Del Toro and the making of a puppet There’s two kinds of parenting stories. One kind is where your five year old looks at you with those puss-in-boots eyes, and tells you that she’s going to be a secret Santa this year. You’ve been such good parents, she says, that she’s […]
Readers Write In #533: The Boy Who Cried Film
December 26, 2022
By Karthik Amarnath The Greatest Show on Earth, Cecile B. Demille’s lavish 1952 film about a grand traveling circus opens with these lines: We bring you the circus. The pied piper, whose magic tunes lead children of all ages, from 6 to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter, […]
Readers Write In #532: Ending of ‘Better Call Saul’ Explained
December 21, 2022
By Cholan Raje Jimmy is driven by a need for validation. Because of his life as a conman, the only people who ever loved and respected him were his parents and Marco. The relative scorn he received from everyone else always caused him to, in the back of his mind, have a low image of […]
In ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water’, James Cameron continues to push movie technology while remaining content with the most generic writing
December 16, 2022
Spoilers ahead… It’s a great theme-park ride. As a movie, though, it leaves you wanting for at least some drama to hold on to. We are back on Pandora. We move through blue mists. We soar past the flying mountains we know from the earlier film. We enter the forest with winged creatures as sunlight […]
My Top 10 list of films for the Sight & Sound poll, 2022
December 11, 2022
Accompanying note: It is really tough to nail down ten films definitively, and one’s personality certainly plays a part in picking them. For instance, I still wanted to choose Vertigo or Citizen Kane but somehow these other (and newer) films kept raising their hands for inclusion. I have tried my best. I look foward to […]
Readers Write In #529: Thoughts on GASLIGHT, RANGOON RADHA
December 8, 2022
By Vijaysree Venkataraman Gaslighting is the word of the year in 2022. According to the Merriam-Wester dictionary,the verb refers to the psychological manipulation of a person. Typically, the manipulation happens over a period of time and causes the victim to question the validity of their own perception of reality or memories.It often leads to “confusion, […]
Anjali Menon’s intermittently effective ‘Wonder Women’, on SonyLIV, is best enjoyed as an experiment in narrative technique
November 18, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The screenplay tries to pack in too much in too little time, but just being around these talented ladies is going to be enough for many. The “one line” of Anjali Menon’s Wonder Women would be something like this: Six pregnant women attend a prenatal class, and experience both frictions and friendships. But […]
Readers Write In #522: Classics on YouTube #6 – Fallen Angel (1945)
November 7, 2022
By Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]
Interview: Anjali Menon (Wonder Women)
November 3, 2022
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Readers Write In #519: Classics on YouTube #5 – Made for Each Other (1939)
October 23, 2022
By Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]
Readers Write In #511: Classics on YouTube #4 – The Card (1952)
October 15, 2022
By Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]
Readers Write In #501: Classics on YouTube #3 – To Be or Not To Be (1942)
October 9, 2022
By Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]
Readers Write In #494: The Real Master
September 24, 2022
Shiva Prasad What is the movie about? The age-old question! And, the conventional wisdom says, you need to reply back in 2 lines or less. But, what is conventional wisdom anyway? Is it backed with truth, or is it just herding with faith? Is it immutable, or it just exposes the lack of curiosity in […]
Readers Write In #491: Classics on YouTube #2 – All My Sons (1948)
September 18, 2022
By Vijay Ramanathan Note: YouTube’s vast repository includes a multitude of wonderful movies in many languages – some hidden gems, and some that are hard to find elsewhere. In this series of articles, I will share some of my favorite classic movies freely available on YouTube, along with a brief analysis. The videos are not […]
Readers Write In #489: Celebrating Chaos in ‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once’
September 16, 2022
By Karthik Amarnath I can’t remember the last time I had as much fun watching a movie as I did with the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at once. I was reminded of a great Robert Altman quote that says, “Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.” The Daniels’ have taken this literally, living as many lifetimes as […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
May 23, 2023
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