Scribbles and Ramblings

Denis Villeneuve's Incendies has completed an amazing hat-trick of best film awards on the film festival circuit. After winning best C...

The only requirement for a spotlight on recent Chinese cinema was that the selections should be mostly documentaries. With that in mind, I p...

Another wonderful film festival edition comes to an end!! I am very happy with the quality of films shown and even more delighted that I ma...

Oh the sunlight. Beautiful sunlight. All summer long instead of a clear blue sky & sunshine, my lovely city got nothing but dark gloomy ...

Every year at CIFF, I have failed to catch all the films that I had originally planned to see. The reasons have been usually one of the fol...

My first ever visit to tiff was a completely enjoyable experience. Even though the trip was only for 4 days, I managed to view a respectabl...

Total number of films seen: 432 This total includes 430 feature length fiction & docs plus the first season of 24 and The IT Crowd ....

Taylor's Way A quite incredible film that effortlessly switches gears between three different genres with considerable ease. The openi...

The 2010 Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) kicks off in less than 2 weeks time. The film selections continue to grow in technical...

In international waters Indian cinema’s flag is flown by Bollywood but that is an unfortunate situation because Bollywood is not representat...

The American (2010, USA, Anton Corbijn): 10/10 Over the years, I have seen some wonderful film posters in New Delhi, Mumbai, Madrid, Rott...

Sam Raimi’s wonderful Drag Me to Hell has been rightly praised for a return to the director’s horror roots. But the film is more than just ...

Now that the World Cup is over, the backlog of the various film spotlights can start. The Japanese spotlight is first with the following as...

Form is temporary, class is permanent. This time, Thierry Henry provided another working example of the old cricket proverb. On Thursda...

Dream within a dream within a dream Inception (2010, USA/UK, Christopher Nolan) Alejandro Amenábar beautifully explored the complex wo...