New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi’s comedy-drama Boy (2010) that explores the complexity of familial dysfunction and hero worship through a Māori (indigenous...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Alex van Warmerdam’s Abel (Voyeur) following a private screening. Abel, a thirty year old man, is voyeuristic and agoraphobic...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Mauritanian film Heremakono aka Waiting for Happiness. Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, this African film...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Greek film Amerika Square. Through a poignant collage of parallel subplots of individuals, the film deals with rootlessness...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Semih Kaplanoglu’s Milk (Sut) following a private screening. This is the second film in a trilogy (Egg, Milk, Honey) which...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson following a private screening. The film deals with the life of an average bus driver in a small...
Ruben Ostlund's masterful Force Majeure depicts the moral crises of human beings when confronted by a natural calamity. Awarded the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard...
Silhouette members discussed and debated Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul following a private screening. The film that won the coveted Golden Bear at...
The dreadful story of the betrayal at Dunkirk is told from three perspectives: beginning with land, moving to the sea and then to the air, the latter two been acted out almost...
Norihiro Niwatsukino’s bold attempt Suffering of Ninko looks into the inner self of a Buddhist Monk Ninko. This partially crowd-funded debut announces arrival of...
Spotlight just won the Academy Award for Best Picture in February 2016. It not only beat out Alejandro Iñárritu's revenge period film, The Revenant, but...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an eminent film director of International cinema. His camera is eloquent, capturing the terrains of Turkey as if in a sweep of the majestic brush of a...
Frank Darabont’s 2007 film The Mist is a horror film based on Stephen King’s novella with the same name. The film still haunts in its depiction of the monster that lies...
In 1937, with The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock ended his British period to move over to Hollywood. A mixture of genres this film holds the same verve of the films...
The Paradine Case is one of the least discussed films of Alfred Hitchcock. Yet it makes a very interesting viewing due to the characters’ obsession with love.
The Exterminating Angel is a surrealist classic that contains a lot of signature elements that have come to be associated with Bunuel’s films, like the criticism of the...
The film brought its fictional tension in the form of Turing’s alleged espionage links – which helped to intensify the drama and probably to bring him out as a man of...
Manoel de Oliveira's The Strange Case of Angelica, directed at the age of 102, overwhelmed me. The subject and the poetic treatment of this surrealist film contribute to make...
This is what is most fascinating about the creation of ‘The Seventh Seal’ - it is an off-spring of a misty, ambiguous mind and of tormenting times.
While in terms of narrative form and structure, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is cast in the mould of a classic Hollywood film, it has important points of departure, particularly...
Based on George Orwell’s masterpiece in literature, Animal Farm, 1954, excels in the portrayal of his satire on Joseph Stalin’s rule in USSR.
The subtlety of the narration, the use of multi-layered metaphors and beautiful intertwining of dreams and reality add to the ambiguity in Un Soir Un Train.
Unlike the novel, slavery is a dominating presence in the film Mansfield Park (1999), a presence that resonates throughout the text.
The theme of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring can be best recognized as an allusion to the philosophy of the Absurd.
The BBC television drama, Cranford and its sequel, Return to Cranford broaden our visions about the place of men and women as distinctive entities in the world.
Chunhyang (2000) is a pre-modern folk tale in a post-modern structure that comes as a surprise to contemporary audiences.
Slumdog Millionaire as a film not only centers on the sets of a game show, but totally follows the ideology of it.
In a just world, The Host would have been every bit the box-office event that Crouching Tiger was – and would instantly be perceived, at large, as vastly superior to the...
Langton’s Pride and Prejudice like Austen in her novel, depicts irony with ‘unmistakable strains of cynicism, laughing at human nature without any real hope of changing...
Film critics often divide Hou’s oeuvre into three phases that are characterized by different approaches to filmmaking.
This essay is only an attempt to look at Tykwer through the miniature lens of Perfume, interrupted by some thoughts on his co-ordinates as a director, relative to contemporary...
Korean gangster films of this period, however, often interweave within the narratives and their modes of representation, commentaries on the relations between the two.
Raise the Red lantern film remains rooted in the everyday of a traditional family, and yet hints at state atrocities committed at Tiananmen Square.
Trained as a filmmaker at University of Moscow, Sissako, so far has made three feature films—Heremakhonon (Waiting for Happiness), La Vie Sur Terra (Life on Earth) and...
For quite a long time now, cinema critics have been paying homage to him in different ways; here, in this essay, we will try to identify the ‘architecture’, the ‘technology’...
Blind Shaft the name itself would seem to suggest not only the dark cold mine shaft cut off from the rest of the world but also a place so dark and isolated that it is beyond...
When V exploded into the giant screen from pages of a comic book, media and public greeted it with very contradictory but equally impassioned emotions.
Film Noir is primarily used to describe a particular cinematic style associated with Hollywood crime dramas (between the 1940s and late 1950s) which find their roots in German...
The people like Cathy and Reg from Cathy Come Home, or the jobless protagonists like Yosser from Blackstuff are all casualties of the Welfare state.
