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Everyone saw films that surfaced well on whatever platform their boat sailed to. But there were some rather unfamiliar films that never saw the light of the day. These films need your instant attention, here goes our list of top 20 criminally underrated films of 2015.
In Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton defined cinema as ‘Three cheers for darkened rooms!’ There is a dreamlike quality to cinema watching experience itself. When an adventurer enters the darkened room and encounters a series of flickering images that projects dazzling visions of life, surrounded by complete strangers, the experience of cinema can be equated with that of dream. What moviegoers seek from cinema is the experience of otherness. Movie watching is and will always be a mystical ritual that teeters on the edge of reality. This strange analogy between film viewing and dream state is the foundation of surrealist cinema.
Cinemapreneur is a pay-per-view OTT with a library of independent films available to stream online globally. India has made its…
Bollywood is still not done with the masala films, but an audience can always choose. I took an oath to stay away from cinematic thrash this year. While there where occasional let-downs: R. Balki’s Shamitabh & Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet to name a few, there where some really surprising films like Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni’s Hunterrr & Neeraj Pandey’s Baby. But Unlike last year, 2015’s mid-list had a lot of gems and the later part of the year mostly was cold, except three films in the list that follows:
![United Red Army [2007] Review – An Exactingly Detailed Account of Revolutionary Zeal Gone Wrong](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/United-Red-Army-2007-768x512.jpg)
I feel that Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Koji Wakamatsu’s United Red Army (Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama…
![Children of Hiroshima [1952] Review – A Poignant Account on the Horrors Endured in the Aftermath of A-Bomb](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Children-of-Hiroshima-1952-768x548.jpg)
Kaneto Shindo’s Children of Hiroshima (Genbaku no ko, 1952), based on Arata Osada’s novel, was one of the first Japanese…
![The Tale of Iya [2013] Review – A World of Natural Wonder Tinged with Mystery and Magic](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-Tale-of-Iya-2013-768x488.jpg)
Japanese cinema has persistently and sensibly dealt with environmental issues, particularly modern society’s encroachment into the wilderness. The Studio Ghibli…
![A Fugitive from the Past [1965] Review – Probing the Postwar Devastation of Japan through Thriller Framework](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/A-Fugitive-from-the-Past-1965-768x495.jpg)
“A Fugitive from the Past is an idiosyncratic thriller which withholds complex themes and character attitudes beneath its simple crime…
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