Delhi-6 (2009): The Lanes Holding A Million Stories “Zarre zarre mein usi ka noor hai;…
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Steve McQueen made the Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave,’ but did not win one…
Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap, in an interview on his movie Dev.D (2009), a modern era…
Daddy Longlegs Review: I have always had this hunch how Safdie brothers seem like the…
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, mused Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. It is so human to lie, to make things up. One does it as a matter of course, even when it is not a regular habit. It’s like a spasm in the monologue that is always running in one’s head, a sudden contraction in the verbiage – done involuntarily, almost like a sneeze. A really amusing example is a scene from 2012’s Moneyball. Brad Pitt asks Jonah Hill whether he did the player evaluation he was supposed to do.
“Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with…
