Dogme # 1 Festen (The Celebration) (1998)
The Celebration is a Danish film, made by director Thomas Vinterberg, in 1998, which centres around the gathering of an…
Film Review: L’Age d’Or (1930)
This surrealist film, directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, made in 1930, continues to shock, repel, scandalize cinema…
FILM REVIEW: Családi Tüzfészek (Family Nest) (1979)
Family Nest is a Hungarian film, directed by Bela Tarr in 1979, which shows the domestic problems of Laci (László…
Give me “MAGIC”!
Many of us consider ‘serious cinema’ or ‘reality cinema’ as good and the commercial mainstream productions that Bollywood churns out…
Film Review: Family Viewing (1987)
The title of the film is slightly misleading. The film is neither entertaining in the conventional sense, nor is it…
FILM REVIEW: KOYAANISQATSI (1982)
One author actually wrote about the movie: “It feels strange to be discussing Koyaanisqatsi using words since the film communicates…
FILM REVIEW: STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)
Jim Jarmusch’s ”Stranger Than Paradise” tells the story of a self-styled New York hipster, Willie (John Lurie) who is paid…
FILM REVIEW: RED PSALM (Még kér a nép, 1972)
Red Psalm directed by Hungarian film-maker Miklos Jancso, is communist musical, if anything can be called that, a musical allegory,…
A Look Gay/ Lesbian Expression in Indian Films: Fire, Mango Souffle and Bomgay
Traditionally, the Indian film industry, especially Bollywood, has turned a blind eye toward the issue of gay and lesbian culture…
REELING THE REAL: A look at the technique of Realism in Indian Cinema.
While the orthodoxies of Neo-Realistic elements have died out in recent years in Indian cinema, it has given rise to…