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The Vistor- Illegal Immigration in a post 9/11 New York
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
Le Salaire de la peur: The Wages of Fear
Whenever we talk of French films the discussion invariably drifts towards the French New Wave and we get obsessed with the Godards, Truffauts, Rohmers etc while...
A black cat, a white cat, a pig and a bunch of crazy gypsies
Crna macka, beli macor (Black Cat, White Cat) is a 1998 comedy by acclaimed Serbian director Emir Kusturica. The film is set in a gypsy settlement by the river Danube...
Casshern – Questions splashed in colour
****WARNING**** : THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS Over the last couple of decades, Japanese cinema has seen a powerful resurgence of Anime (Japanese animation). Hayao...
In the Company of RGV
There have been many interpretations and depictions of gangsters in Hindi films. Gangsters in Bollywood date back to the early 70′s when the angry young man...
When Wuxia met Rashomon
Lightning fast swordplay, swarms of arrows darkening the sky and pouring down cats and dogs (just like the Persians claimed to do in Thermopylae), Shaolin, Dr Wong...
The White Ribbon
Author – Jitaditya I have a personal liking for German cinema. I just like the way they dissect the darker facets of their recent past so unabashedly. Especially...
Oriental Cinema Paradiso – A study in contrast
It’s rare that one gets to see two films from two different countries but with the same central theme, on successive days. That’s just what happened to me a...
The Manchurian Candidate(1962)-Cold War, Conspiracy Theories
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the...
Dr.Strangelove-Or how i started to love Stanley Kubrick
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo [Leonardo Da Vinci] had written at the bottom of the canvas, ‘The lady is smiling because she is...
The Little Shop of Horrors-1960
50 years back, 1960 The deepest point on Earth, Marianas Trench was accessed using a bathyscape Trieste. African nations were breaking ...
Sergio Leone Redux
Remakes and inspirations are always a tricky territory for a filmmaker. The expectations shoot up and the remake/inspiration is often undervalued. A case in point...
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