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International Film Reviews

Le havre
Le Havre: A 21st Century Shomin-geki from Aki Kaurismaki

Aki Kaurismäki’s films, marked by minimalistic aesthetics and poignant political commentary, highlight working-class struggles. Dipyaman Ganguly explores Kaurismäki’s blend of visual storytelling and social critique in Le Havre.

Marcel, the old French shoe-shiner
Le Havre: A 21st Century Shomin-geki from Aki Kaurismaki
Aki Kaurismäki’s...
Eva Green as Christine in Nocebo (2022)
Nocebo Review: An Entrancing Psychological Thriller With Creepy Elements
Nocebo...
Reel Reviews: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas & Father and Daughter
Reel Reviews: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas & Father and Daughter
Garden...
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
This article examines Martin Scorsese’s...
A Review of The Gospel According to St. Matthew and Francis of Assisi
A Review of The Gospel According to St. Matthew and Francis of Assisi
A...
Rakhee Gulzar at KIFF
25th KIFF – An Event to Remember
Mayurakshee Gangopadhyay, the...
From left to right: Louis Garrel, Eva Green and Michael Pitt (Pic: 20th C. Fox Searchlight publicity)
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Dream
The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci...
A Tale of Two Schools
A Tale of Two Schools
In the...
Avengers: Endgame Speculation – X-Men to Play a Vital Role in Battle against Thanos?
Avengers: Endgame Speculation – X-Men to Play a Vital Role in Battle against Thanos?
Thanos...
Taika Waititi’s Boy: Exploring Masculinity from an Indigenous Perspective
Taika Waititi’s Boy: Exploring Masculinity from an Indigenous Perspective
New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi’s comedy-drama...
Silhouette Recommends – Abel (Voyeur)
Silhouette Recommends – Abel (Voyeur)
Silhouette members discussed and debated...
Silhouette Recommends – Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness)
Silhouette Recommends – Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness)
Silhouette members discussed...
Silhouette Recommends – Amerika Square
Silhouette Recommends – Amerika Square
Silhouette members discussed and debated...
Silhouette Recommends – Milk (Sut)
Silhouette Recommends – Milk (Sut)
Silhouette...
Silhouette Recommends – Paterson
Silhouette Recommends – Paterson
Silhouette members discussed and debated...
Force Majeure 2014 - Many Shades of a Social Animal
Force Majeure 2014 – Many Shades of a Social Animal
Ruben Ostlund's masterful Force...
Silhouette Recommends – On Body and Soul
Silhouette Recommends – On Body and Soul
Silhouette...
Dunkirk poster (Pic: IMPawards http://www.impawards.com/2017/dunkirk.html
Dunkirk: Reading Nolan’s War Odyssey
The dreadful story of the betrayal at Dunkirk...
Suffering of Ninko: Clash of Restraint and Libido
Suffering of Ninko: Clash of Restraint and Libido
Norihiro Niwatsukino’s bold attempt Suffering...
The poster of Spotlight
Spotlight – A Great Film
Spotlight just won the Academy Award...
Once upon a Time in Anatolia poster
In Argument with Beauty – Once upon a Time in Anatolia
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an...
Poster of Messages in the Mist
Messages in The Mist
Frank Darabont’s 2007 film The Mist...
Miss Froy, an English spy posing as a governess
Alfred Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes
In 1937, with The...
Mrs Paradine and Tony - the man 'blinded' by the gorgeous woman
Love as Obsession: Reading Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case
The...
Film Poster
The Exterminating Angel – A Surrealist Treat
The Exterminating...
(L-R) Keira Knightley, Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Allen Leech star in The Imitation Game. (Pic courtesy: Internet)
‘Because God Didn’t Win the War’ – The Imitation Game Review
The...
Angelica smiles at Issac through the camera lens
The Strange Case of Angelica – Oliveira and His Saudade
Manoel de Oliveira's The...
The Seventh Seal (The Criterion Collection) (1957)
Ingmar Bergman – The Seventh Seal
This is what is most fascinating...
The Invisible ‘B’ in LGBT Discourse: A Reading of Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Invisible ‘B’ in LGBT Discourse: A Reading of Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
While...
Animal Farm (2004) Voice Cast: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham Directed by: John Halas (Director), Joy Batchelor
Animal Farm 1954 – An Allegorical Satire on Stalinism
Based on George Orwell’s...
Un soir un train (French) Paperback
Obscure Surrealist Classic – Un Soir Un Train
The subtlety of...
Mansfield Park (1999) Cast: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Director: Patricia Rozema
Austen vs. Rozema: Slavery In Mansfield Park 1999
Unlike the novel, ...
The Virgin Spring (1960) Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg Director: Ingmar Bergman
Absurdist Themes In The Virgin Spring
The theme of Ingmar Bergman's...
In an understanding of female voice in a capitalistic society
Framing Cleo In Paris
Cleo is not an outsider but recognized as...
Visions Broadened in Cranford and Return to Cranford
Visions Broadened in Cranford and Return to Cranford
The BBC television...
Chunhyang: An Artistic Splendor
Chunhyang: An Artistic Splendor
Chunhyang (2000) is a pre-modern...
Jamal Lacks it: Game Show Politics and Rise of Individual in Slumdog Millionaire
Jamal Lacks it: Game Show Politics and Rise of Individual in Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog...
Taking Over: Notes on the Host
Taking Over: Notes on the Host
In a just world, The Host would...
A Tribute to Austen-Simon Langton’s Pride and Prejudice
A Tribute to Austen-Simon Langton’s Pride and Prejudice
Langton’s...
Three Times: Temporal Poetics of Hou Hsiao-hsien
Three Times: Temporal Poetics of Hou Hsiao-hsien
Film critics...
The Story of a Tykwer
The Story of a Tykwer
This essay is only an attempt to look...
The Medium as the Message: Cinematic Intertextuality in Im Kwon-Taek’s The General’s Son
The Medium as the Message: Cinematic Intertextuality in Im Kwon-Taek’s The General’s Son
Korean...
Matrix of Claustrophobia: Raise the Red Lantern
Matrix of Claustrophobia: Raise the Red Lantern
Raise the Red...
Abderrahmane Sissako’s La Vie Sur Terra (Life is on Earth): Prompting Us to Re-think “Displacement”
Abderrahmane Sissako’s La Vie Sur Terra (Life is on Earth): Prompting Us to Re-think “Displacement”
Trained...
A Case-Study of Vertigo - Hitchcock & Mental-Image
A Case-Study of Vertigo – Hitchcock & Mental-Image
For quite a...
Of Memories and Justice Down the Blind Shaft: Reviewing Blind Shaft
Of Memories and Justice Down the Blind Shaft: Reviewing Blind Shaft
Blind...
V for Vendetta: Representations of revolution in popular culture
V for Vendetta: Representations of revolution in popular culture
When...
Influence of Film Noir on Carol Reed’s The Third Man and the Emergence of a More Concerted International-oriented British Cinema in the Late 1940s
Influence of Film Noir on Carol Reed’s The Third Man and the Emergence of a More Concerted International-oriented British Cinema in the Late 1940s
Film...
Reading Displacement in Cathy Come Home
Reading Displacement in Cathy Come Home
The people like Cathy...


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