Film lover, occasional critic and wannabe director.
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Bad Lieutenant
You take a Scorsese film from the '70s and strip it down till you have the essential, the bare spirit. This is it.Favorite Films
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Style
- Auteur-driven
- Zip, whiz, and energetic!
- Serene & subtle
- Deliriously surreal
- Nouvelle vague
- Canonical classics
- Shh!—silent cinema
- Of-the-past
- High Art
- Vanguard cinema
- Neorealist
- Coming-of-Age
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Reviews
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Bunuel’s ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’ holds the promise of a “proper” (classical) narrative throughout its length but doggedly fails in keeping it. Here is a film that pretends to head… read review
The Expedition
First of all, I unexpectedly got a lovely print. The Masters of Cinema series (Eureka!). Just wish some other Indian films of the period are restored soon.
Narsingh, a cynical cab-driver over… read review
Kanchenjungha
An upper-class Calcutta family has come to the hill-station of Darjeeling to spend a vacation. The narrative encompasses the day before their planned departure. The patriarch is a relic of the Raj… read review
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Film Database Submission May 2012
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The Auteurs Film & Cast Member Database
7 months ago
Film Database Submission October 2011
8 months ago
Film Database Submission July 2011
11 months ago
Satyajit Ray, his strange neglect, auteurism and American taste
over 1 year ago