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Berlinale 2024, Post #19: Interview: Robin Vanbesien (‘hold on to her’)
February 24, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #18: Interview: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss (‘Memories of a Burning Body’)
February 24, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #12: Interview: Nelson Makengo (‘Tongo Saa’: Rising Up at Night)
February 22, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #10: Interview: Michael Fetter Nathansky (‘Every You, Every Me’)
February 21, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #8: Interview: Svitlana Lishchynska (‘A Bit of a Stranger’)
February 20, 2024
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Berlinale 2024, Post #6: Interview: Romanian director Andrei Cohn (‘Holy Week’)
February 19, 2024
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Readers Write In #667: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ and the subversion of narrative conventions
February 13, 2024
By Hari PR It is clear from the first scene of ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ that a little boy and his pet dog who occupy the first frame are going to be key characters. We are also immediately made aware of marital disharmony between the two leads, in literally the loudest possible way. We expect […]
Readers Write In #659: Readers Write In – Chennai International Film Festival
January 15, 2024
By Bharath Vijayakumar The 21st Chennai Internation Film Festival was held last month (14th December to 21st December 2023). This annual ritual is a definite and wonderful opportunity for those in Chennai to get a taste of cinema from around the globe. Film festivals are like multicuisine buffets. The menu is varied, and you get […]
‘Spotify: Cinema with BR’ Episode 7: Dhanush / Selvaraghavan / Vaathi-Sir / Bakasuran
February 17, 2023
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Readers Write In #548: Not defending a movie tradesman about testosterone, but defending
February 15, 2023
By Kartik Iyer Anupama Chopra sat down with actors for a discussion. She brought up a comment shared with her by a tradesman: testosterone filled movies will work in the future. Unsurprisingly, Ayushman Khurrana was first to call it out as a ‘patriarchal’ statement. Fellow actors followed in tandem with Vidya Balan rounding up the […]
Readers Write In #547: Maid of the Mist
February 6, 2023
By Karthik Amarnath Unpacking the centerfold of Park Chan-Wook’s “Decision to Leave” At a little past the halfway point in Park Chan Wook’s moody new film Decision to Leave, there’s a three minute scene that unfolds at a marketplace. We hear muffled sounds of shoppers but we don’t see them; we’re staring at a bunch of […]
Mega Critics Roundtable 2022, by Nona Prince
December 30, 2022
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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 #443: A Hero, by Asghar Farhadi
February 20, 2022
By An Jo SPOILER ALERT In ‘A Hero’ Asghar Farhadi lays out to you a story that could be passed off as an Aesop’s fable. A man, already declared by legal system as a criminal, trying to be honest: This is the emphasis; this is what the story is about; you need to make an […]
Readers Write In #378: Princess Mononoke: Getting Ambiguity Right (?)
July 2, 2021
(by Adithya R) One WTF fact I came across recently was that Hayao Miyazaki doesn’t write screenplays for his films. WTF! * This is pretty hard to imagine given the myriad themes, characters, and incredible world-building that is stuffed into a typical Studio Ghibli film. And the typical Studio Ghibli film is a visual masterpiece […]
Readers Write In #376: What’s special about South Korean cinema?
July 2, 2021
(by Sudharsanan Sampath) South Korean cinema is clearly superior, with its creativity, consistency and film-making style, when compared to other film industries of the world, at least in my opinion. Malayalam cinema is attempting to come dangerously close, but still some way to go. South Korean filmmakers somehow managed to capture the elusive art of […]
Céline Sciamma, Jacqueline Lentzou, and the other women with films at the Berlinale
March 6, 2021
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/berlinale-2021-celine-sciamma-jacqueline-lentzou-and-the-other-women-who-competed-for-the-golden-bear-9384711.html Five of the eighteen titles that will compete for the Golden Bear, are directed or co-directed by women. A look at ‘Petite Maman’, ‘Moon, 66 Questions’, ‘Ballad of a White Cow’. Spoilers ahead… I’ll begin with a shout-out to the web site womenandhollywood.com. It was founded in 2007, and it “educates, advocates, and agitates […]
Luiz Bolognesi’s ‘The Last Forest’, playing at the Berlinale, takes us to the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon basin
March 5, 2021
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/luiz-bolognesis-the-last-forest-playing-at-berlinale-2021-takes-us-to-the-yanomami-tribe-in-the-amazon-basin-9381571.html This is a record of a rapidly vanishing home. In 1986, the discovery of gold deposits led to an invasion by 45000 prospectors and the death of 1500-1800 natives. Spoilers ahead… In Ex Pajé (2018), filmmaker and anthropologist Luiz Bolognesi captured the spirit, the essence, the modern-day conflicts of the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous […]
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