Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver (2006): This month, Almodóvar premiered his second English language short film at the Cannes Film Festival, Strange Way of Life. Since he announced the film, people have wondered how…
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British filmmaker Christopher Smith’s Severance (2006) is a horror comedy based on a story by James Moran, and Moran and Smith co-wrote the script. It belongs to the slasher sub-genre, perhaps the…
Neocolonial Anxieties in Bong Joon-ho’s ‘The Host’ (2006): It is perhaps a stretch to think that Bong Joon-ho was trying to create a colonizer/native binary when making ‘The Host.’ The indictment of…
Kelly Reichardt’s characters are usually not in a hurry and they do not have any money. In ‘River of Grass,’ a couple is trying to leave Florida; ‘Meek’s Cutoff’ has a group…
In Jumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2006), Ashoke Ganguli has been introduced as a ‘slightly plump, scholarly looking’ young man who wears thick black frames and has a ‘sharp, prominent nose’. When we…
Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or award-winning historical drama, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) is set against Ireland’s battle against the British Empire in the early 1920s and the tumultuous birth of…