Scribbles and Ramblings

West is West (2010, UK, Andy DeEmmony) East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. Rudyard Kipling. Kipling’s overu...

Claude Chabrol’s unexpected death in September 2010 meant the world lost a core director of the French New Wave. Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques...

It is not surprizing to see that Denis Villeneuve's Incendies is one of the main winners at this year's Canadian Genie Awards, w...

Entry #2 of the 2011 Copa America Film & Book Festival . Book: Chronicles of a Nomad by A.A. Alvarez Film: El Don (2006, José Ramón...

Lourdes (2009, Austria/France/Germany, Jessica Hausner) Religion is a divisive element in the human race. It causes wars, divides famili...

I have often chased down films either by a particular director or country for the better part of the last decade. The only exception to this...

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...