The President [2014] – A Harrowing Drama on the Endless Cycle of Subjugation and Violence
Human rights activist and renowned Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President (2014) opens in highly fascinating manner. A dictator of…
[WATCH] Video Essay Explores The Generation Gap in Two Mike Nichols’s Classics
In his latest video Essay, Luís Azevedo of Beyond The Frame explores the generation gap between the two Mike Nichols classics…
Badlapur [2015] : An Exercise in Rage
In 2004, Sriram Raghavan gifted mainstream Hindi cinema it’s first femme noir revenge thriller in ‘Ek Hasina Thi’. Since then,…
Annie Hall [1977]: A Wisdom Tooth for all Ages
A comedian reeling on the verge of despair, a scatterbrained dreamer wanting everything from nothing and a romance of a…
The Overrated Phenomenon: Art of bashing the Popular
I AM PROBABLY GOING TO BE HANGED BY ALL YOU CINEPHILES FOR THIS, I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT STILL… So I…
Paterson [2016]: Silent Wonders of Life
There comes a scene in Paterson when having suffered a minor setback, it’s central character sits in front of a…
8 Thottakkal aka 8 Bullets [2017] – A Flawed yet an Engaging Existential Thriller
Mysskin is my favorite film-maker in the contemporary Tamil cinema. There are certain things that don’t work for me in…
Incendies [2010]: Mercilessly Shocking and Beautifully Destructive
It feels as if I have lived a lifetime in two hours. As if I have traversed a thorny path…