The 50 Best Films Of 2016
If I could describe 2016 in three words it would be – Poetry, grief and terror. The three recurring themes…
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10 Films the HOF-Men Recommend: 7th Edition
Here is the 7th Edition of 10 Films the HOF-Men Recommend. Like Father, Like Son [2014] | Director: Hirokazu Koreeda | Run…
The 15 Best Women-Directed Films of 2016
Like each year the league of women directed films has gradually increased. In spite of being a male dominated industry, there have been some really well crafted, beautifully realized women directed films this year. There’s not a single genre left that needs to be touched anymore. Here are 15 films directed by women that range from the heart of realism to the seabeds of surrealism.
10 Best Films Of 2016 Picked by HOF Crew
A year ago, High On Films was just an idea waiting to be conceived. I feel so ecstatic now as we have turned our varied film taste and opinions into one long world of wordplay. We have written, argued and talked about every single fable that is thrown towards us in the name of cinematic artistry. Despite the times when we struggled to go through the films that were deliberately a slog, we have managed to stand again on grounds of films that were magical in every sense of the word. After sitting down to pick our favorites, it was difficult to bring the number of best films down to a bare minimum. But we battled and narrowed down our collaborative favorites in a list that follows.
20 Must-See Documentaries of 2016
In the beginning, there was the tool. A tool used to capture people’s quotidian activities. Until the time this tool…
Minimalist Reviews : American Graffiti,The Sweet Hereafter, La Sapienza
We have started a new section called ‘Minimalist Reviews’, where we write brief review of random films. In this post, I have reviews American Graffiti,The Sweet Hereafter, and La Sapienza.
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 those rare Oscar years in which the names at the Best Animation film category looked even better than the titles in the Best Picture Category. Here is my double feature review of two brilliant films of that lot; ‘Anomalisa’ and ‘The Little Prince.’
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 name movie stars like Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Naomi Watts in the process. The latest one being Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Gyllenhaal and Watts that’s set to open on the weekend of April 8th. The purposes of this article is to shed a little light for the uninitiated as to what led up to this emergence of Québecois filmmaking talent as well as to give a little indication as to what it’s all leading up to.
Mustang (2015): The Oppressor Vs The Oppressed
Watching Mustang is a very demanding thing. It almost feels like crawling through a dark tunnel with no hope whatsoever. But finding a bit of light at the end of the tunnel is what makes the experience worthy, and satisfying.