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Certified Copy Director: Abbas Kiarostami Writers: Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière Abbas Kiarostami is the best known of Iranian filmmakers and it will not be out of place to assert that he put Iranian cinema on the world map. Yet, a careful...
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Prometheus Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof, Dan O’Bannon Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron Awards: Nominated for Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. A ‘prequel’ to a film classic is sometimes a much better marketing ploy than a sequel – especially when the first film...
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Cosmopolis Director: David Cronenberg Writers: David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker in the English-speaking world, who has been continuing to make provocative and deeply thoughtful films when other claimants to the title like David Lynch, Atom Egoyan and Quentin...
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Amour Writer-director:Michael Haneke Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. The opening scene shows firemen breaking down...
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The Tree of Life Writer-Director: Terrence Malick Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Terrence Malick, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, first attracted attention through Badlands (1973) a film very much in the same mold as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us (1974)...
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The Turin Horse Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky Writers: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Among the various elements of camera style, the long uncut sequence has a way of getting attention for itself. Originally, the device was a constituent of mise en...
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Looper Writer-director:Rian Johnson Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt Time travel is a popular science fiction ploy but although the sub-genre is nominally concerned with ‘scientific possibilities’, its actual preoccupation is different. It is essentially a narrativization of technological, social or political fear. The very first bit of...
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Melancholia Writer-director: Lars von Trier Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård Lars von Trier has zeroed in on Andrei Tarkovsky as the greatest filmmaker of all times and, judging from his pronouncements, he is regarding himself as Tarkovsky’s successor. Tarkovsky was a great filmmaker but if Lars von...
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Les Enfants Du Paradis Director: Marcel Carné Writer: Jacques Prévert Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur Awards: Nominated for Oscar for Best Original Screenplay Widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, Marcel Carne’s Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) is not as well known in India where that other contender for...
Certified Copy Director: Abbas Kiarostami Writers: Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière Abbas Kiarostami is the best known of Iranian filmmakers and it will not be out of place to assert that he put Iranian cinema on the world map. Yet, a careful...
Prometheus Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof, Dan O’Bannon Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron Awards: Nominated for Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. A ‘prequel’ to a film classic is sometimes a much better marketing ploy than a sequel – especially when the first film...
Cosmopolis Director: David Cronenberg Writers: David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker in the English-speaking world, who has been continuing to make provocative and deeply thoughtful films when other claimants to the title like David Lynch, Atom Egoyan and Quentin...
Amour Writer-director:Michael Haneke Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. The opening scene shows firemen breaking down...
The Tree of Life Writer-Director: Terrence Malick Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Terrence Malick, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, first attracted attention through Badlands (1973) a film very much in the same mold as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us (1974)...
The Turin Horse Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky Writers: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos Among the various elements of camera style, the long uncut sequence has a way of getting attention for itself. Originally, the device was a constituent of mise en...
Looper Writer-director:Rian Johnson Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt Time travel is a popular science fiction ploy but although the sub-genre is nominally concerned with ‘scientific possibilities’, its actual preoccupation is different. It is essentially a narrativization of technological, social or political fear. The very first bit of...
Melancholia Writer-director: Lars von Trier Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård Lars von Trier has zeroed in on Andrei Tarkovsky as the greatest filmmaker of all times and, judging from his pronouncements, he is regarding himself as Tarkovsky’s successor. Tarkovsky was a great filmmaker but if Lars von...
Les Enfants Du Paradis Director: Marcel Carné Writer: Jacques Prévert Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur Awards: Nominated for Oscar for Best Original Screenplay Widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, Marcel Carne’s Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) is not as well known in India where that other contender for...