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Sunday, April 19, 2009

83. German director Tom Tykwer’s film “Das parfum (Perfume: The story of a murderer)” (2006): Capturing the smell of the bizarre with sight and sound

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G erman cinema through the ages has shown an incredible felicity of dealing with the bizarre. And Das Parfum is no exception. ...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

82. US director-screenplay writer Tony Gilroy’s debut film “Michael Clayton” (2007): A screenplay, a writer would like to direct without compromises

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M ichael Clayton is an unusual Hollywood film of substance. Unusual it is, for several reasons. Rarely does a Hollywood film get release...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

81. Sergio Leone’s "Giù la Testa" (Duck, you sucker!/ Fistful of dynamite/Once upon a time—the Revolution) (1971): Revolutions as black comedies

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The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; it cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revo...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

80. French director Laurent Cantet’s “Entre les murs (The Class)” (2008): A beguiling, stimulating feature film on education resembling a documentary

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I t is not often that you come across a movie that has as its lead actor, the very writer of the novel on which the film is based. Laurent ...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

79. French director Laurent Salgues’ debut film “Rêves de poussière (Dreams of Dust)” (2008): Infusing dignity and elegance to cinema on Africa

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T he opening sequence of films often indicates the quality of cinema that follows. Writers and journalists are aware that they need to grab ...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

78. Algerian director Amor Hakkar’s French/Algerian film “La maison jaune (The yellow house)” (2008): Underscoring goodness in humankind

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D irected, written, acted (playing the lead role of Mouloud) and co-edited by Amor Hakkar, The yellow house will win hearts anywhere. It i...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

77. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Üç maymun (Three Monkeys)” (2008): Mastery of contemporary, contemplative cinema

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N uri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film Three Monkeys proved to me that Turkish cinema can rub shoulders with the very best in contempora...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

76. Australian director Lian Lunson’s charming documentary “Leonard Cohen: I am Your Man” (2005) (USA): The singer, not just the song

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I confess to be a die hard fan of Leonard Cohen, Canada’s Bob Dylan, poet, novelist, ladies man, thinker and singer. He is alive and 74 yea...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

75. French director François Truffaut’s film “Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player)” (1960):”What you did yesterday stays with you today”

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F rançois Truffaut is often considered to be one of the finest French directors of cinema as he along with Godard and Chabrol are credited w...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

74. Hungarian director Árpád Bogdán’s debut film "Boldog új élet (Happy New Life)" (2007): More than a look at an orphan’s loneliness

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D ebut films reveal a director’s inherent creative attempts to seduce the viewer much more than what is evident in their later body of work....
Friday, October 03, 2008

73. Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman's "Tystnaden (The silence)" (1963): A demanding movie directed at a mature viewership

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T he Silence was the first Bergman film I ever saw, way back in 1973 as part of a film society screening in Chennai. India. I loved the ...
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