Double Feature Review: ‘Anomalisa’ and ‘The Little Prince’
The Animation genre has had a great run in the year 2015. Unlike most years, some of the best films of the year were actually animation films. While the subject of ‘Inside Out’ was a groundbreaking one, there was a devastatingly haunting film in ‘The Boy and the World’. Anomalisa was expectedly a Kaufman-esque dream, while ‘When Marnie was there’ lived upto the expectations one has from a Ghibli Studio movie. It was one of…
A Serious Man (2009): Facing the Elusive, Malevolent Unknown
Human mind is often haunted by this age-old question and requests for an answer through prayers or while talking to high priests. The question is: Why do bad things happen to good people? We try our best to be good. We show love to others & yearn for others’ love. We do our jobs & duties, hoping for some recognition from our peers. But, still bad things happen to us. Our beliefs are shattered; frustration…
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [2011] : A Criminal Fairy Tale
Nuri Bilge Ceylan has rare quality of profoundly understanding the psyche of humans during idle mind phase. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is gorgeously shot crime drama with densely layered characters that grow effortlessly & organically with time.
The Québecois invasion of Hollywood
One of the more interesting phenomena in recent years has been the influx of Québecois filmmakers making their mark on the Hollywood landscape and World Cinema in general. The likes of Denis Villeneuve, Jean-Marc Vallée, Xavier Dolan and Philippe Falardeau have recently emerged after years spent cutting their teeth and honing their craft as filmmakers in “la belle province”. Now, more and more projects spearheaded by some these names are being greenlit while attracting big…
Hunger (2009): A compelling, haunting and devastating first feature!
The film desperately changes from being mute to immensly loud. For the first 30 odd minutes, the film consequently moves through these disarranged claustrophobic scenes of complete silence followed by insane rage. When the snow-flakes or the filthy walls of the prison cell don’t talk, McQuen resorts to brutality; not because he wishes his audiences to walk-away or hide their faces as they cringe their way through it, but because it creates an emotionally relevant…
Still Walking [2008]: A Stroll through Butterfly Lane
A mother and a daughter prepare a meal as the brother pushes his wife to not stay the night. They are on their way for a family reunion, as they are mourning the death of the eldest son of the family. We see the father, who is not really happy with the way his son turned out walking past the town. The family is not as broken as the pieces of tiles in the bathroom…
Misery (1990) Movie Review: Misery is Alive!
Stephen King’s 1987 novel Misery, inspired from King’s battle with substance abuse, is widely regarded as one of his most…
Hush [2016] Netflix Review: The deaf mouse Vs The wounded cat!
Hush is not the kind of film that makes a whole lot of sense. Take the antagonist’s motivations to kill Maggie for instance; its darkly funny to think about it from the audiences perspective. Was he just having fun? Why would he choose to kill random people in the middle of nowhere. He isn’t shown to be psychologically inept, even though he feels and acts so. But director Mike Flanagan, very cleverly keeps the…