Scribbles and Ramblings

The opening five games of Copa America have produced just five goals with three of the top teams held to draws. Hosts Argentina needed a la...

The Copa America is just 8 days away which also means my deadline to finish all the selections for the Copa America Book & Film Festiva...

Paris (2008, France, Cédric Klapisch) Paris is often called a seductive romantic city. So it is not surprizing that a film titled Paris ...

Chalo Dilli (2011, India, Shashant Shah) The past few years have produced some engaging Indian films shot exclusively in New Delhi. Film...

A Serbian Film (2010, Serbia, Srdjan Spasojevic) Once upon a time, a man screwed for a living. Then he retired to live happily with his f...

Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United Saturday, May 28 2011 will go down in history as the day when a truly classic Champions League final was pl...

The first time I heard a film described as an actuality was when Allan King mentioned it in the Q&A session following a special screeni...

In the latest Cannes roundup , David Hudson has put up a trailer for Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told co-directed by Rakeysh Om...

Before City of God came out in 2002, the only Brazilian films that were available for rent in my city were José Mojica Marins’ Coffin Joe f...

"This is Canada?" These were the words that came to my mind when I first saw Michel Brault’s Les Ordres a few years ago. The fi...

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...