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The Visceral Horror : "Ring" and "The Audition" 26 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Japanese cinema got its biggest international breakthrough in the 1990’s with a slew of visceral horror films. The...
The Anime -- A Brief Introduction 23 Aug 2013 | 06:29 am
Anime are a mass-media phenomenon in Japan, produced on a huge commercial scale within the Japanese studio system and consumed in vast quantities by domestic and regional...
The Italian -- A Bittersweet Quest of a Determined Child 21 Aug 2013 | 07:50 am
"Dickensian" is a word often used to describe heart-breaking dramas involving children. Al though, the stories of Charles Dickens are set in a bleak landscape of Londo...
Like Someone in Love -- A Free-Floating Masterpiece 19 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
The Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami has really chosen the path of a world director. His last two movies are shot outside Iran in a language other than Persia...
Drug War -- A Persistent Nail-biter 17 Aug 2013 | 07:28 am
John Woo, with ultra-violent hard-boiled crime sagas such as "Bullet in the Head" and "The Killer" defined Hong Kong action films of 80s and 90s. He lost his fervor ...
Little Children -- A Richly Textured Suburban Drama 14 Aug 2013 | 10:17 am
The suburbs and upper middle class always lend themselves to satires. Master film-maker Luis Bunuel ridiculed the middle and upper classes in a trenchant manner, whe...
The Butcher Boy -- A Relentless Ode to Madness 12 Aug 2013 | 09:23 am
A picturesque Irish town and a young Irish boy in knee pants. This might seem familiar: a coming of age story. But, Neil Jordan's "The Butcher Boy" (1997) set in this mi...
Le Havre -- Celebrates Humanity 10 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Jean Renoir and Jacques Tati are famous for their comic humanist films. Their films don't remind us that how hard life can be. All they ar...
The Devil's Backbone -- A Political Allegory and a Corrosive Horror Story 8 Aug 2013 | 07:49 am
"What is a ghost? An emotion, a terrible moment condemned to repeat itself over and over?" Guillermo Del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone" (El espinazo del diablo, 2001) starts...
Only God Forgives -- An Irrational Ultraviolent Revenge Thriller 6 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
Expectations were high this year, in Cannes Film Festival, as Nicolas Winding Refn's new Thailand-set thriller was first screened there. In 2011, director Nicolas' "D...
