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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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Ellipsis #40

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...

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Men 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...

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Favorite 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...

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Love Games

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Nostalgia 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,...

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Notes 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...

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Favorite 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...

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Favourite 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...

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2020 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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