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Monday, June 02, 2014

163. Russian maestro Andrei Tarkovsky’s Russian movie “Solyaris” (Solaris) (1972): An appraisal of a cerebral movie that is truly one of the best 10 movies of all time

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M any have seen this cinematic masterpiece. Many have considered it as a major achievement in science fiction cinema. The d...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

162. Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer film “Pozitia copilului” (Child’s Pose) (2013): Selfish nature of relationships

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A poster that reveals the structure of the film R omanian cinema is on the march. In 2005, Romania gave the world the lovely...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

161. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish film “Jagten” (The Hunt) (2012): The hunted is always the loser

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D enmark has two interesting filmmakers alive and actively making films: Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier. They...
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Sunday, February 09, 2014

160. Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grande Bellezza” (The Great Beauty) (2013) (Italy): “Combining the sacred and the profane” according to Sorrentino (on its music, and perhaps much else)

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P aolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty has two small yet important facets in common with Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life . ...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

159. Georgian film director Zaza Urushadze’s “Mandariinid” (Tangerines) (2013): A Gandhian perspective on contemporary waves of hate, national and religious

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T he year 2013 has introduced new talents to the forefront in cinema.  The Georgian film director Zaza Urusha...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

158. Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi’s French language film “Le passé” (The Past) (2013): Offering the flipside of Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ with some parallels to Ray’s ‘Charulata’

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T he title of a movie often provides a vital clue for a viewer to approach and analyze a film. In Asghar Farhadi’...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

157. Chilean director Sebastián Sepúlveda’s debut film “Las niñas Quispe” (The Quispe Girls/Sisters Quispe) (2013): Distant drums of politics affecting lives of the isolated denizens

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D ebut films very often offer interesting cinema as every new director distills his/her individual vision of cine...
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