Kaul- A Calling [2016]: Encounter with the Unknown

I don’t exactly remember when I met Kaul. Was it yesterday? Was it in past life? Or maybe I never met Kaul. I feel its presence in rain, in distant mountains and chirping birds. It exists only in nature, a film that’s right in front of you, but you cannot see it. Kaul (A Calling) is the miracle every cinephile prays for but a few pay for.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [2016] : A Very Well Told Moving Magical Tale

When it finally ends, it leaves you with a very likable, warm and fuzzy feeling inside, and you go home with a heart full of happiness. Fantastic Beasts, in the end, stands as a really nice, endearing entertainer and one of the best movies I have seen in this year so far.
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Watching the unseen in Flesh [1968] and Trash [1970]

Although he would rather not be associated with the independent scene, Paul Morrissey’s no-budget films Flesh (1968) and Trash (1970) could be credited with introducing to the cinema a more experimental and more life-like portrayal of the counterculture movement in America, one that was far less concerned about narrative concepts and more about directly observing the lives of the people amidst this movement.
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