Scribbles and Ramblings

The 13th Annual Calgary International Film Festival featured a mouth watering line-up of films from all corners of the world and excelled ...

My review of Luis Buñuel’s L'Age D'or is published on Wonders in the Dark as part of their Top 100 Comedy Countdown.

The Calgary International Film Festival kicks off today, Sept 20, with the much anticipated opening gala of Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Child...

Criterion's release of Hiroshi Inagaki's The Samurai Trilogy this past summer is certainly a worthy event. While there have been m...

Jean Renoir is a director one encounters very early in their cinephilia journey, with The Rules of the Game ( La règle du jeu ) most likely...

Mrinal Sen’s The Absence Trilogy consists of Ekdin Pratidin (1979), Kharij (1982) and Ekdin Achanak (1989). The films are separated by a...

The aftermath of Tony Scott’s shock death revealed how his films divided cinephiles and were not given much thought. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s ...

In Sight & Sound's 2012 poll , 39 Indian films got votes. This number only includes Indian productions or co-productions directed by...

"If Ray reflected the Tagorean enlightenment, Benegal is undoubtedly the chronicler of Nehruvian India. He shares its ‘socialistic’ bia...

Driven written by James Sallis, published by Poisoned Pen Press. Driven , the sequel to James Sallis' noir fiction Drive , catches up...

It is sad to hear about the Uptown cinema's closure . The Uptown was an integral part of Calgary's art-house theatrical scene and it...

Mention a zombie movie and images of flesh-eaters comes to mind, dead creatures who prey on humans. However, this image has drifted far from...

WHEN film critics and historians refer to the spaghetti western, they tend to mean four films directed by Sergio Leone: his "Dollars...

Euro 2012 Book & Film Spotlight 6 months, 16 books and 29 films later, it comes down to a single match to decide the winner of the Eur...