All posts by Ankan

On Gandu
March 19, 2011, 3 Comments

The last time I was told about the genius of a film that will never come above ground was when a group of Delhi Universi ...

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Winter’s Bone
February 13, 2011, 1 Comment

While it’s true that sometimes there can be nothing worse than a bad American independent film, it must be said that t ...

Best of 2010- part II
January 27, 2011, 6 Comments

Following Mukul’s wonderful list published a month earlier, I decided to throw in ten more movies that, I think, deser ...

Kolkata, as the crow flies
December 4, 2010, 2 Comments

Sthaniya Sambad (Spring in the Colony), 2010 Dir. Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas, Language: Bengali (with bits of Hi ...

Catfish and Facebook
November 25, 2010, 3 Comments

Catfish (2010) Dir. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman ‘Facebook realism’ surely ought to be seriously considered as a s ...

Remembering Marienbad
November 10, 2010, 3 Comments

An insightful and affecting behind-the-scenes documentary has surfaced on a film that has come to epitomize the cool, fo ...

Three Killers
November 2, 2010, 4 Comments

The American (2010); dir. Anton Corbijn Machete (2010); dir. Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez The Limits of Control ...

Copie Conforme
Certified Copy, but in a good way
October 23, 2010, 1 Comment

Copie Conforme (2010) dir. Abbas Kiarostami Languages: English, Italian and French In Abbas Kiarostami’s Copie Conform ...

Harishchandra on film
October 12, 2010, 3 Comments

Harishchandrachi Factory (Harishchandra’s Factory) Marathi, 2009 Paresh Mokashi’s film is not so much a sweeping bio ...

Gandhi on my Mind
October 2, 2010, 1 Comment

Gandhi at the movies