Ellipsis #35
O Estranho Caso de Angélica (2010) (The Strange Case of Angelica) Manoel de Oliveira Portugese André Bazin famously remarked that the photographic image, by its very conception, seeks to ‘embalm’...
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Ne Change Rien (2009) (Change Nothing) Pedro Costa French/English Pedro Costa’s latest film Change Nothing (2009), at a visceral level, rekindles the experience of watching that stunning cinephile...
View ArticleMen In Love With Images
“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want...
View ArticleFavorite Films Of 2012
Die, die, die, 2012! Besides being a period of personal lows, it was a bad year at the movies for me. Not only did the quantity of the films I watched come down, but the enthusiasm with which I...
View ArticleNostalgia For The Future
“Life is a moment which is always past, which doesn’t exist anymore. It’s the genius of artistic creation to attempt to retain life. This is the function of literature, of painting, of sculpture,...
View ArticleNotes From Experimenta 2015
The ninth edition of Experimenta, the now-biennial experimental and avant-garde film festival of India helmed by Shai Heredia, took place between 25th and 29th of November in Bangalore. Besides the...
View ArticleFavorite Films Of 2015
2015 was a fine period for me. I went to the Mumbai Film Festival, something that I’d been meaning to do for some time now. I could also go to Experimenta to meet and interact with several interesting...
View ArticleFavourite Films of 2019
2019 was a special year for me. I came back to cinema in an abiding way after a break of over three years. It was also this year that I quit my day job to write and translate full time, even if it has...
View Article2020 Roundup #7
A Fish Swimming Upside Down (Eliza Petkova) Philipp, an affluent, middle-aged widower (Henning Kober), marries young Andrea (Nina Schwabe) and installs her at his swanky house. Also living in the...
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