I’ve watched three films now written, directed, and/or produced by Ashley Tabatabi. The first was “Falsified,” a moving tale about…
Browsing: World Cinema
Three generations of the Batra family spend their last evening together at their ancestral home (Gulmohar Villa, from which the…
“Daisies” (directed by Vḝra Chytilová and written by Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová, and Pavel Juráček), was banned from most theaters shortly…
French screenwriter and director Alice Winocour brings one woman’s profound story of trauma and healing in “Revoir Paris” (“Paris Memories”).…
Many critics have said that “Chile ‘76” (directed by Manuella Martelli and written by her and Alejandra Moffat) feels like…
A seminal entry in the sub-genre of ugly things happening to beautiful people in beautiful places, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is…
During one of the more predictable sequences of drunken meandering and wanton womanizing in Marco Ferreri’s “Tales of Ordinary Madness”…
Season 2 of “Rocket Boys” is set in a new age India that’s busy ushering in the latest, spell-binding technology…
Rarely have I seen a film that so perfectly captures the balancing act of order and chaos in a single…
“I was born during the hardest season—in the season of Fire,” a voiceover in Caylee So’s “The Harvest” narrates. “But…