Springsteen has his own signature style that has not changed over the years. With his guitar resting behind him, cocked and ready to go, his awed silence, or the way he looks around the audience, the ‘Young Abraham Lincoln’ holding an ax over his shoulder becomes the iconic. It is a nearly feudal portrayal of […]
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My First Film: There has never been a time when there were many innovations in the cinema. It is not often possible to hear a new voice break through with an artist willing and able to manipulate cinematic language and form as if there were no pre-determined parameters. It is also not often that you
Black Box Diaries: Not every woman is the heroine of her own story and most of them never get a chance to fight for others as well. Shiori Ito, a 28-year-old Japanese journalist came out as a woman who was sexually assaulted by a journalist two years back and called out the perpetrator, Noriyuki Yamaguchi,
This story has been told many times, but it still brings the same tears to one’s eyes. In Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, National Geographic Documentary Films found the focus on the delicate connection between a human and a mammal. It is a part of the Documentary Spotlight section of SXSW Film Festival,
It seems that someone has immense trust in James Bamford the director. After several years of working as a stuntman and directing various episodes of more or less DC Comics oriented television, Hard Home became the fourth and this year’s film in question. That the last three, Air Force One Down, Jade and Shadow Land
The Present, directed by Christian Ditter (How to Be Single), is centered on the children who inherit magic features of a clock left by their grandfather to help reconcile their parent’s divorce. The clock has the ability of moving back time 12 hours, and hence, the children repeat the same day in efforts of persuading
“Rob Peace”, which is based on real events, is a type of film that is rarely made these days. The focal character, portrayed by Jay Will duplicating the wide-eyed charisma of a teenage Denzel Washington in his prime, was raised in East Orange, New Jersey, and although he was a young man fixated on science,
In this piece, Hala Matar, director of the film ‘Electra’, narrates her sources of inspiration, draws comparisons between her film and ‘Saltburn’, and discusses the motives of the main characters of the film – crisis of identity and desire for revenge. This time, the world premiere of Matar’s new film Electra takes place at the
Yogi Berra, perhaps the greatest catcher in history, has been featured in Carson Lund’s film ‘Eephus’, a film about those players who are never most likely to make a mark, unlike Berra who is bound to be an impressive figure at the Baseball Hall of Fame’s round table discussions. Paying tribute to such a great
The Glassworker: The film is narrated in a winning ‘western’ style, laced with Middle Eastern traditions. We appreciate Bizang’s mastery, eyebrows, lips, and faces while maintaining subplots that include a battle kink and village life adding a unique freshness to the farm. The pace of storytelling is superb as well! I fell in love with
