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In recent months, two feature films set in the Union Territory of Ladakh, (a part of the former Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) were released: Maisam Ali's In Retreat (2024, in Hindi language and local dialects) followed by Praveen…

"They say live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Un-whole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience."--- words spoken, underscoring the importance of time, by the elderly aunt of the young lady, Van, who…

What an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the film's duration by a hippopotamus, who realizes it is dead (in the present world) in at least three…

"There is always a feeling that I have to leave." -- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigrant to Mumbai, the Indian metropolis

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Krzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at the Cannes film festival for The Constant Factor (1980)., the Golden Leopard at Locarno film festival…

"Limbo; is the continuation of themes I; explored in my previous films. Those earlier films dealt with indigenous

“Of course, he took me seriously, respected

“Arrogance is sin”; “I wanted to find God; I only found Man”; “Money always rubs elbows with infamy”; lines spoken in Sin--co-scripted by Andrei Konchalovsky and Elena Kisaleva

Mohammad; Rasoulof is different from most filmmakers. He does not adapt written works—he

from the film that provide glimpses of the thought-provoking script: being interviewed by Adam Gopnik in front of a live audience on Tár

"'Thank you for being born.' - A single; sentence that touches the audience in such a way that entire films rarely can.

"For its commitment to; everyday heroism, its multi-layered approach to an array of social problems,

“Have any of you read Pirandello?” asks a senior priest in a Sicilian seminary to his junior priests “I read him in secret, then I confessed” replies a junior priest meekly, with penitence, “I have read one novel--The Old and The Young.”…

"You think you can go on a; pilgrimage and come back clean as a whistle? Only God can forgive you, sir."

“A sound like a rumble; from the core of the earth”; —Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scotswoman and a

A majority of film critics and viewers tend to dismiss Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s films in their initial assessments, especially in recent decades. Why is that? To answer that question, one needs to know some key facts about…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car will appeal to different folks for totally different reasons. Those familiar with Haruki Murakami’s written work flock to watch cinematic adaptations of his written works such as the Korean director Chang…

“Your pain is; pathetic. It is pathetic because it is relative. It is also not pathetic

The title of the film Social Hygiene will remind viewers of the Covid pandemic’s cardinal rule to avoid infection—maintain social distancing to avoid infection. In fact, no two characters make physical contact in the entire film and…

And recall when Moses; said to his people, “Allah commands you to slaughter a cow”

“Although you don't attempt to show it, one has a point of view on things and it ends up emerging, whether you like it or not. Our films (with director/husband Rodrigo Plá) often turn on the limits of the public and the private, the…

“You always need a living sailor on a ship full of the dead. That was me.” (Final spoken lines of the film)

“I wanted to make a film with this title for a long time. The title is from a dialogue at the end of Mel Brooks' film Blazing Saddles; one character asks the other, "Where are you going to go?" and the other replies,"Nowhere special", and…

Director and co-scriptwriter Naomi Kawase, co-scriptwriter Izumi Takahashi and novelist Mizuki Tsujimura present a diversity

My goal is to observe life and not to; mystify it. What I film is simply matter that exists in the world. A person or

“If they hurt others, it’s because they hurt, too.”-- Benedicta, mother of Amador, responding to Amador’s comment on the root formation of the Eucalyptus tree, a tree that can cause explosive burning during forest fires, a metaphor of…

Roe v. Wade is a 2021 feature film that provides considerable insight from a pro-life point of view into a very important US Supreme Court judgement given in 1973 that the Constitution of the United States “protects a pregnant lady’s…

“I don’t make a lot of; films...I can only shoot what is essential to me”

“Let the dead bury the; dead, you shall leave no trace. Bury your existence, lest they say there lived