Scribbles and Ramblings

 Change of Life (1966, Portugal, Paulo Rocha) Over the last decade, there has been a rich supply of Portuguese films coming out yet I recall...

 Soleil Ô (1967, Mauritania/France, Med Hondo) I had read about Med Hondo in a few posts over the years. Yet, I hadn’t seen any of his films...

  Diego Simeone. Francisco Seco/Associated Press It felt like a miracle. Atlético Madrid had managed to avoid defeat at the Camp Nou and he...

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019, Canada/Norway, Kathleen Hepburn / Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) In reference to the cinema ...

The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See selected by Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, Edited by Wallace Schroeder I...

The news of Basu Chatterjee’s sudden death on June 4 was a shock. When I was growing up, I didn't know what an auteur was but I could id...

The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Japan, Akira Kurosawa) “This was the first film of Kurosawa Productions, my own unit which I run and finance mysel...

As opposed to starting at the beginning, I started at the end. The first Kinji Fukasaku film I saw was Battle Royale (2000), the last on...

“The film is the same….It’s your eyes that have changed.” — Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) The above words could not have been more tr...

Amid all the tragic news of recent months, Wednesday resulted in two devastating news items: the passing of Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. ...

It wasn't long ago that PARASITE made headlines by winning big at the Academy Awards. History books will show that was on Feb 9, 2020. ...

Previously, I had published a Top 50 of the Decade List (2010-2019). This is now narrowing down a Top 10 from the 50 films. Top 10 fil...

2017 and 2018 represented such high points in world cinema that I was a bit cautious about the state of cinema at the start of 2019. Surely...

This is a first pass towards coming up with a Top 10 of the Best Decade list (2010-2019). Here are my favourite 50 films of the decade. N...

“Of all the collective creative surges that have arisen in the cinema within the last thirty years, perhaps the quietest, least trumpeted, ...