Scribbles and Ramblings

The full schedule for the 2008 Calgary Film Festival is out!. There are some excellent titles, including: Three Monkeys (Director: Nuri B...

The democratic handshake The media keeps reminding us that India is the world's largest democracy but that does not mean it is a succe...

The days are getting shorter. There is a chill in the air and Canadian film festival line-ups are being released. So that can mean only one ...

The full TIFF 2008 lineup is now out. As usual, plenty to see!!! On a quick scan, I picked the following titles that I would love to see, ...

In last weekend's Globe and Mail , Rick Groen raised an interesting point about the powerful collaborations between actors and director...

Every summer it seems that North American film critics have to respond to why they did not like a certain Hollywood blockbuster film. Two y...

Snapshots of Three Films by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas Japón "Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answe...

The Competition line-up includes new works from Darren Aronofsky, Guillermo Arriaga, Jonathan Demme, Takeshi Kitano, Hayao Miyazaki & B...

Mid Year-Bollywood Spotlight It has become an annual ritual of sorts that I spend a good two months every summer catching up on the previous...

I was surprized to learn from the Guardian blogs last week that The Dark Knight was now #1 in the imdb Top 250 film list. I guess I had st...

There was a good article in the Sunday NY times about the disappearance of hutongs , or the narrow alley-ways, in Beijing. In tracing the hi...

Marriages are a pretty complicated affair. The decision to spend one's life with another person can be quite a soul searching experience...

When Simon Kuper's excellent book Football against the Enemy hit bookstores more than a decade ago, there wasn't any market for boo...

Final ratings of all the 17 films seen. Ratings out of 10 : Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati): 10 Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Mal...

A dark open ended alley with a green garbage dumpster half-way through. On the streets on either side of the alley, people wander by en rou...