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Vijay Varma in ‘Gustaakh Ishq’ | Photo Credit: Stage5 Production/YouTube An ageing poet, his stoic daughter and a cunning publisher make the subjects of filmmaker Vibhu Puri’s student film, Chabiwali Pocket Watch (2006). Set in the ruins of old Delhi at an unspecified time, there are signs of an impressionistic, young mind in its eerie…
I used to joke that Stranger Things arrived in my life with the sudden, strangely exhilarating clarity in the way some people discover religion. When the first season dropped in 2016, it felt like a secret broadcast meant for kids who grew up combing through their parents’ dusty DVD shelves and cassette collections. It matched…
Ram Pothineni and Bhagyashri Borse in the film | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some bonds defy rational explanation, like the devotion an ardent fan feels for a film star. What drives someone to go to extraordinary lengths for an actor who may never know they exist? Andhra King Taluka, written and directed by Mahesh Babu…
Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother came to IFFI carrying the heavy luggage of a Golden Lion from Venice, and the expectation that the patron saint of deadpan will have something new to say about families who barely talk to each other. He delivers a slim, haunted triptych in which adult children circle their parents…
After averaging four films a day at IFFI, my brain was running on whatever fumes Peoples lager counted as. When the seemingly soft and harmless Renoir floated in unsuspectingly enough for me to underestimate it, this quiet little thing turned out to be the sharpest, sleeper special I’d watched all day. Chie Hayakawa, who broke…
Oliver Laxe’s Sirat is overwhelming by design. I went in wanting a desert movie with cool music and walked out with the Sahara forming in the cave in my chest. If you’ve ever wondered what a subwoofer manifesting purgatory sounds like, Sirat is the answer. The French-Spanish filmmaker opens his Cannes Jury Prize-winner with a…
A still from ‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ | Photo Credit: Sony Pictures What a lean, mean fighting machine this sequel from Finnish director Jalmari Helander is! After bashing endless waves of wicked Nazis in 2022’s Sisu, the sequel, also written and directed by Helander, finds our silent commando/prospector, Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), on a new…
If someone at the Indian Film Festival of India (IFFI) this year told me that the new Jafar Panahi is the crème de la crème of the entire festival, I would have nodded, laughed, and spent the rest of the opening night chasing everyone who disagreed, just to watch more folks change their minds. Whether…
A scene from Vilayath Buddha. Even films which do not turn out quite as intended by its makers might leave us with a few moments of magic, just like a broken clock which gets the time right once in a while. In Jayan Nambiar’s debut directorial Vilayath Buddha, one gets a couple of compelling characters…
At some point, “Joachim Trier Summer” slipped into every cinephile’s collective cultural calendar this year, and I’ve stopped pretending it isn’t real. But here is a petition to scrap “Joachim Trier Summer” and adopt the far more accurate “Summer of Catastrophic, Character-Building Heartbreak” instead, please. The Norwegian filmmaker is back with his new awards contender,…
