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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Spoiler-filled Analysis- It was only in my last viewing of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick’s most controversial and polarizing film, at ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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Review- Jordan Belfort (Leo Dicaprio) likes to play. He plays with people, he plays with stocks, he plays with his clients, he p...
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The Great Beauty (2013)

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Review- The Great beauty revolves around the life of Jep Gamberdella (Toni Servillo), writer of his only novel and daily columnis...
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Moeibus (2013)

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Moebius is one of the most ludicrous films I’ve seen in quite a while. It features intentional overdoses of melodrama, violence, stupi...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

The Counselor (2013)

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Review- Even with its compromises and overreaching philosophy, The Counselor is a pretty interesting film. It keeps you involved e...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Adore (2013)

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Anne Fontaine’s Adore is a piece of tripe. Not only is it the worst film I’ve seen from this year, it is hands down the worst film I...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Lone Survivor (2013)

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Lone Survivor directed by Peter Berg stars Mark Wahlberg in the lead role of real-life character Marcus Lutrell, to whom the title o...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Harmony Lessons (2013).

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Review. Interpretation. Observations. Spoilers.- The last film I saw at CIFF 2013 was a character study called Harmony Lessons writ...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Omar (2013)

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Walking out of Omar at CIFF 2013, I didn’t think for a second that the Palestinian film had the potential to be an Oscar contender. Ove...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Walesa. Man of Hope (2013)

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Andrez Wajda’s biopic film “Walesa. Man of Hope” revolves around Lech Walesa ( Robert Wieckiewics) , a libertarian and revolutionary...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Priest's Children (2013)

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The Priest’s Children directed by Vinko Bresan is one of the more mainstream films I saw at CIFF 2013. It was silly, comical, family...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Fill the Void (2013)

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Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void opens with a chirpy young lady, Shira, groom-shopping at a mall with her mother Revka. The women poin...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Salvo (2013)

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One of the dullest films I saw in 2013 was a film called Salvo directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. I looked it up befo...
Monday, May 26, 2014

The Whirlpool (2013)

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“Not for the faint-hearted” was all I had to see to choose a screening of The Whirlpool at CIFF 2013 over one of Oh Boy, a European ...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

The Disciple (2013)

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The Disciple is set on an island inhabited by a family of four. Vilhelm, the man of the house is in charge of a lighthouse situate...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Only God Forgives (2013). Reviewed and decoded.

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Review- Nicolas Winding Refn’s earlier venture, Drive , revolved around an ordinary man who felt compelled to embody an ideal ...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Skyfall (2012)

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Skyfall opens with a silhouette of Daniel Craig. As the actor walks from the shadows and into the light, we see his character slowl...
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Cloud Atlas (2012)

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Halfway through my first viewing of Cloud Atlas, I knew I had to watch it again. When I finished, I debated. Commercial compromise ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Argo (2012)

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Argo opens with news channel excerpts that lead up to a revolution outside an American Embassy in Iran. The people of Iran are outrage...
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Arbitrage (2012)

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Nicholas Jarecki's Arbitrage revolves around a problematic life phase of a billionaire named Robert Miller (Richard Gere). It’s h...

Chronicle (2012)

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28 year-old Josh Trank employs the omnipresent found footage gimmick, brought to new light by The Blair witch Project and popularized ...

Premium Rush (2012)

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Even the uncharismatic Joseph Gordon Levitt, with the constantly sullen look on his face, can be infused with a hint of excitement as...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Killing them Softly (2012)

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Andrew Dominik, who sent Brad Pitt to the peak of his career with The Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, one of...
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

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Wes Anderson is one of the few directors whose style of film-making I absolutely loathe. I took a liking for Rushmore but other tha...
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

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The Cabin in the Woods is a heartless, hilarious, campy self-satire. It criticizes the very techniques it employs. Owing to a few e...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

That character in Pulp Fiction you never see.

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Ezekiel the Almighty. Jules summons him by reciting Ezekiel 25:17. He makes his first appearance when he lets the bullets go throug...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

The Expendables 2 (2012)

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In 2009, Sylvester Stallone (better known as Rocky) assembled action stars of yesteryear, himself included, and decided to make...
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)

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As of now The Bourne Supremacy is my favourite of the film adaptations of The Bourne Trilogy. Mainly because it doesn’t involve...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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The Dark Knight Rises is grim, grand and massive.  It’s the perfect conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s superhero franchise. I think i...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Michael (2011)

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I first saw Markus Schleinzer’s Michael at the Chennai International Film Festival in December 2011. The festival was powered by ...
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The Mill and The Cross (2011)

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As interesting as watching paint dry is a phrase that might ring true to many with regard to The Mill and the Cross.  Story, charac...

The Goodfellas

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You might be confused at seeing a prefix ‘The’ to the title of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’. The purpose of this article is to addre...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Casino, revisited.

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This isn’t a review. This is a write-up of my experience of revisiting, after a few years, the 1995 film Casino. Contrary to its ti...
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Shame (2011)

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                                     There’s a creature. This creature is part human- part animal. The human goes to work at day, e...
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Young Adult (2011)

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It’s a brand new day. A chick flick is playing on TV but the only person in the room is sleeping on her face. She wakes up and her...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Another Earth (2011)

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What if there was another earth with another you? What if you met this other you? Would you tell yourself what to do and what not t...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Trust (2011)

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David Schwimmer’s Trust opens with the track “Give a little” by Hanson. A teenage girl is preparing breakfast, only to follow it wit...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Ides of March (2011)

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Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) tells reporter Ida (Marisa Tomei) “I’m not naïve okay? I’ve worked on more campaigns than most people will h...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Le Gamin au vélo- The Kid with a Bike (2011)

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The Kid with a Bike. What if that is all it is about? French filmmakers seem to rely on the beauty of simplicity. I’ve not seen to...
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