Scribbles and Ramblings

Film Comment recently published a poll listing the Best Avant-Garde films and video from 2000-2009 . Out of the 48 films in the list, the ...

The 2011 Copa America tournament is more than a year away but I have to start preparations for a personal tie-in competition this summer be...

1) Rules and Film picks. I managed to get films from 11 out of the 12 countries taking part. The only missing entry was from Paraguay. Bac...

I wanted to gather the 2006 Movie World Cup results in one location. The 2006 Movie World Cup was a unique experiment that proved to be suc...

Given Apichatpong Weerasethakul's track record for making beautiful films, I am not surprized at reading some of the glowing words and r...

The stories about Cesc refuse to go away. So looking into the crystal ball, here are some notes about future, 2011 and beyond, English and S...

There is no doubt that Barcelona plays the most beautiful football in the world. Yet, they also exhibit ugliness on and off the field. If on...

The sun is shining and the snow has melted. Dare I say it? Winter might finally be over...for a week atleast. Having seen snow storms in eve...

Almost all the Cannes 2010 films were announced today. And right on cue, the complaining has started. Already I have read the words "...

Repeat words over and over again -- Barcelona are the best footballing side on the planet playing the game like no other team! Last week, ...

Last year, when I decided to track down a film from all the 32 countries taking part in this summer’s soccer world cup, I had not realized t...

Arsenal 2 - 2 Barcelona Barcelona did not waste any time in establishing their superiority and from the first minute they played Arsenal o...

It was about four years ago that I started paying closer attention to Rotterdam’s International Film Festival lineups and since 2006, I hav...

A prisoner. Unshaven, haggard and released from a physical prison. Beat up apartment. Old typewriter. Click, click. Novel. Money. Maya. Libe...

The 1st leg between these two film-makers was summarized back in summer 2009 where Alonso's Los Muertos was the clear winner over Mar...