Article 15 (2019)
[Spoilers ahead, maybe] Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15 takes as its subject the rape and murder of Dalit girls in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Rookie IPS officer Ayan (Ayushmann Khurrana) is posted to tâ...
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My Beginnings
L’Écran français no. 197; 5th April 1949.            (After the preview of Jean-Paul Le Chanois’s Passion for Life featuring Bernard Blier.)            Too conventional. ...
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Shoplifters (2018)
[Spoilers ahead] Imagine this scenario: a news item appears on TV about a group of squatters who have been caught sheltering a pair of long-lost children. The group has also been earlier implicated…...
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
“People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed—a knife—a purse—and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light ...
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The Twelve Ways of Being a Filmmaker
Cahiers du cinéma no. 473; November 1993. During the filming of The Sign of Leo, I’d shouted at Éric Rohmer: “How is it that you, a Christian filmmaker, have suddenly become an apologist for thi...
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Why Do You Film?
Response to Libération’s major survey, May 1987  To make big bucks, to go on big trips and to meet pretty girls.  [From Luc Moullet’s Piges choisies (2009, Capricci). See Table of Contents...
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