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…

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…
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…