Scribbles and Ramblings

 Il Posto (1961, Italy, Ermanno Olmi) The great Italian director Ermanno Olmi, who sadly passed away in 2018, is more famously associated wi...

 A Machine to Live In (2020, USA, Yoni Goldstein/Meredith Zielke) A city is made by its people, within the bounds of the possibilities that ...

Notturno (2020, Italy/France/Germany, Gianfranco Rosi) Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare ( Fire at Sea ) depicted the arrival of refugees to th...

Black Test Car (1962, Japan) Black Report / Black Statement Book (1963, Japan) Over the last year, streaming and online movie viewing has be...

Film: Tesnota/Closeness (2017, Kantemir Balagov) Books: The Mountain and the Wall , Bride and Groom by Alisa Ganieva One film, two books a...

The word ‘global’ has been used for a few decades but it truly took on a new meaning in 2020 when all countries around the world were impact...

Wong Kar-wai is an auteur whose signature style is instantly recognizable in his films due to the presence of eye-popping visuals, memorable...

 doc·u·men·ta·ry noun: documentary; plural noun: documentaries     a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record o...