Muddy River [1981] Review – A Haunting Portrait of Childhood and Friendship in Post-War Japan
Kohei Oguri’s Muddy River (Doro no kawa, 1981) is a wonderfully evocative portrait of childhood which in parts reminded me…
15 Must-see Surreal Films of 2015
In Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton defined cinema as ‘Three cheers for darkened rooms!’ There is a dreamlike quality to cinema watching experience itself. When an adventurer enters the darkened room and encounters a series of flickering images that projects dazzling visions of life, surrounded by complete strangers, the experience of cinema can be equated with that of dream. What moviegoers seek from cinema is the experience of otherness. Movie watching is and will always…
Cinemapreneur – The latest OTT entrant is now a New Home for Indian Independent Films
Cinemapreneur is a pay-per-view OTT with a library of independent films available to stream online globally. India has made its…
Venice Film Festival bound Gujarati short film ‘Anita’ takes a look at the fleeting idea of being independent
Aditi Vasudev stars as Anita – the centerpiece of Sushma Khadepaun‘s disturbingly real short film about the fleeting idea of…
The Funeral [1984] Review – Wickedly Satirical and Rapturously Inventive Dramedy
“The Funeral (1984) offers an interesting commentary on the ways modern Japanese society endeavors to adapt itself to the strictures…
Waiting for the Barbarians [2020] Review: Not Worth The Wait
Conservatism is unsurprisingly inherent to humans for it renders might to their muscle, and provides them with the cushion of…
Interview with François Ozon: “I was faithful to the book which never problematizes gayness.”
All set to premiere at TIFF 2020, French filmmaker François Ozon’s ‘Summer of 85’ is a coming-age film about a…
The 10 Best Hindi Films Of 2015
Bollywood is still not done with the masala films, but an audience can always choose. I took an oath to stay away from cinematic thrash this year. While there where occasional let-downs: R. Balki’s Shamitabh & Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet to name a few, there where some really surprising films like Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni’s Hunterrr & Neeraj Pandey’s Baby. But Unlike last year, 2015’s mid-list had a lot of gems and the later part of…