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Farewell My Concubine is one of the few rare films that present history, beauty, emotion and art with such outstanding craft and skill. This film qualifies as one of the most unique films I’ve...

As many of us walk around sporting T-shirts with an image of a figure with a military cap perched on his head (taken by Alberto Korda, it is one of the most widely circulated image in the world),...

The “dashing, charismatic buccaneering” (as I have called him elsewhere) Spanish storyteller, Pedro Almodovar, is back. And this time he packs more punch with his dynamic panache in another vignette...

Following stretched the concept of low-budget films to its very extreme. Shot in 16-mm grainy black-and-white stocks, the movie at first glance might appear to be a deeply experimental and esoteric...

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films often deal with the themes of fate, coincidences and choices. The phenomenal Decalogue teased us with the possibilities of seemingly disparate lives being connected....

Since the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the search has been on for the heir to the throne he left behind. Many believed that his fellow countryman Alexander Sokurov would be the chosen one. Indeed, his...

Home is where the heart is. But what if you don’t know where your heart is? Or what if the heart falls in love with a new place – Does it become home then? Caroline Link’s Nowhere in Africa is a...

“To reconstitute political life in a state presupposes a good man, where to have recourse to violence in order to make oneself prince in a republic supposes a bad man. Hence very rarely will there be...

California Dreamin’ (Endless), along with such movies as 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and 12:08 East of Bucharest, forms one of the cornerstones of the ongoing Romanian New Wave movement. The...

The year was 1984, when following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the anti Sikh riots were started in the capital of the Indian country. Twenty three years after the massacre, Shonali Bose’s...

According to the many estimates, there are about 7 million slum-dwellers in the city of Mumbai, of which a sizable chunk is formed by homeless children. Struggling to survive, these children resort...

What other arts have been doing for decades – reflecting on the medium themselves rather than the content they carry – cinema has started picking up. Not many films have sought to break off from the...