Scribbles and Ramblings

The first entry of the 2011 Copa America Film & Book Festival . All countries are far too complex to be reduced to a single word label...

Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) (2010, India, Kiran Rao) Often Indian films set in Mumbai start off with a voice-over narration which explain...

Do Dooni Chaar (2010, India, Habib Faisal) Mumbai manufactures celluloid dreams while Delhi serves up cinematic reality dressed up in fi...

It is so common to hear complaints that a given cinema year is dull. Yet, a person lazily applies the dull tag by only looking at a handful ...

I have seen 9 of the 65 candidates in the foreign film category for the 83rd Academy Awards. That is a decent number considering that only...

Total number of features (fiction and docs) & TV series collections seen: 381 This total includes 8 DVD season collections of the foll...

An incredible cinematic year as highlighted by the presence of 68 films from a total of 27 countries. 43 of the 68 films (63%) came courtes...

Spotlight on Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn The motivation for the final spotlight of the year came after I was riveted by the raw a...

Spotlight on Pedro Costa I have previously mentioned my more than 3.5 year quest to track down the films of Pedro Costa. The need to disc...