Children of Hiroshima [1952] Review – A Poignant Account on the Horrors Endured in the Aftermath of A-Bomb
Kaneto Shindo’s Children of Hiroshima (Genbaku no ko, 1952), based on Arata Osada’s novel, was one of the first Japanese…
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![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)
The Tale of Iya [2013] Review – A World of Natural Wonder Tinged with Mystery and Magic
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 [1965] Review – Probing the Postwar Devastation of Japan through Thriller Framework
“A Fugitive from the Past is an idiosyncratic thriller which withholds complex themes and character attitudes beneath its simple crime…
Mucho Mucho Amor (2020) Netflix Review – A Familiar and Emotional Study of a Myth
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado in now streaming on Netflix Documentaries are as diverse as fiction. In…
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies [1995] Review: A Must For Film Fanatics
Documentaries about films are slowly becoming a genre in themselves, and I for one love them more than factual reportage…
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Chintu Ka Birthday [2020] ZEE5 Review – A modest anti-war chamber-piece
With ‘Chintu Ka Birthday‘ directing duo Devanshu Kumar & Satyanshu Singh introduce us to a war-torn Baghdad. Thankfully, they don’t…
National Identity In The Romantic Aesthetic of Michael Powell
This essay explores the work of Michael Powell as a romantic auteur aspiring to reconfigure the notion of national identity…
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Other Music [2020] Review – Joyful, Melodic Remembrance
Other Music: The Documentary is a little beautiful piece of nostalgia, sweetly giving tribute to the famous New York music…
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Sivapuranam [2015] MUBI Review – A strange isolated world of a loner
Some films blow you away, they hold your attention from the first moment as moss holds unturned stones-these are supposedly…