Scribbles and Ramblings

Over the years, it has been a slow disappearance of 35mm film from commercial theaters in my city but now the transformation is complete. No...

Sat, April 16: Real Madrid 1-1 Barcelona Wed, April 20: Real Madrid vs Barcelona, Spanish Cup final Wed, April 27: Real Madrid vs Barcelon...

Two films by Gaspar Noé: Seul contre tous / I Stand Alone (1998) Enter the Void (2009) Enter the Brain I Stand Alone allows unfilt...

I had never heard of Pere Portabella until I came across Jonathan Rosenbaum’s wonderful book Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia in which Rose...

Japan has pulled out of this year's Copa America tournament. The Japanese Football association president Junji Ogura said: "The ...

Rubber (2010, France, Quentin Dupieux) Very few films come with an inbuilt cult classic quality like Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber . A film ab...

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...