TIFF 2017: New Images & Trailer from Abed Abest’s Simulation
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TIFF 2017: New Images from Anurag Kashyap’s The Brawler (Mukkabaaz)
A lower-caste boxer struggles to make his mark on the boxing world, in the highly anticipated film, The Brawler aka…
TIFF 2017: New Images & Clips From Calin Peter Netzer’s “Ana, mon amour”
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Inside Llewyn Davis [2013] Review: Wings of folk singer’s desire
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Dragonfly Eyes [2017]: Locarno International Film Festival Review
More than surveillance footage documentary, Dragonfly Eyes is the story an aloof camera that incessantly captures the chaos, death, violence, molestation, accidents, calamities, and by doing so questions the nature of reality. Camera is the glass wall that filmmaker cannot penetrate. Like a ghost, he observes humanity from distance, but can never become a part of it. In his desire to create fiction out of fragments of reality, Xu Bing himself transcends humanness and becomes…
Sami Blood [2017] – Coming of Age in the Land of Prejudice
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They Live [1988]: A Biting Satire On Modern Society
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