Tag: world cinema

Where is the Land? (Dir.: Hushyar Z. Nerwayi) I watched Where is the Land? at the Kolkata Film Festival 2012. The director, Hushyar Z. Nerwayi was there himself and was introduced by the festival director just before the film begun. Where is the Land? is a drama that follows a couple living in a village…

Notting Hill (Dir.: Roger Michell; Cast: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts et al.) Notting Hill is a romantic drama/ comedy starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts plays a film star and Hugh Grant plays a bookstore owner. They meet at his bookstore and another chance meeting later, a relationship grows between these two individuals…

Moneyball (Dir.: Bennett Miller; Cast: Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman et al.) Moneyball is a bat-meets-number, sports-meets-analytics story with a tight plot that hooks the viewer and manages to keep him engaged till the end. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, trying to put together a winning…

Minority Report (Dir.: Steven Spielberg) Minority Report from the maestro, Steven Spielberg, is a sci-fi film which deals with a number of complicated themes intertwined with each other. Tom Cruise stars in the role of a crime prevention official in a futuristic world ridden free of crime through pre-emptive measures taken to thwart potential criminals….

Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman; Dir.: Majid Majidi) Children of Heaven (or Bacheha-ye Aseman) is a poignant human drama by the acclaimed Iranian director Majid Majidi. Majid Majidi?s films are defined by their quiet flow, in the course of which tender human feelings, emotions and relationships are explored in an equally tender manner which rarely…

This section contains film reviews and musings around films in general. Exploiting the liberty of getting to choose the films I review, I have largely gone with the ones which moved or delighted or entertained me. As each film is unique and has its own story to tell, which may vary widely in scope and…