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71. Indian director Feroz Abbas Khan's Hindi/English film "Gandhi, my father" (2007): A super-human father and his prodigal son
“He is the greatest father you can have, but he is the one father I wish I did not have”�"Harilal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi“The greatest regret of my life…. Two people I could never convince �" my Muslim friend Mohammed Ali Jinnah and my own son Harilal Gandhi.”�"Mahatma GandhiIt... Read more...
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70. US film director Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of glory" (1957): Rich in content and relevance
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike th’inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.--Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Church-yardHere’s a significant black and white film from the master director... Read more...
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69. Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s US/Mexican/French film "Babel" (2006): Lack of empathy or a problem of communication?
There is a revival of interest worldwide in making feature films that comprise several disparate stories that link up with a common thought or use a common location. This is now called the portmanteau film. Such films have sporadically surfaced over the decades but their appeal seems to be... Read more...
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68. Georgian (former Soviet) filmmaker Tengiz Abuladze’s “Monanieba (Repentance)” (1987): Can you bury past evils?
And art made tongue-tied by authorityAnd folly, doctor-like, controlling skillAnd simple truth miscall’d simplicityAnd captain good attending captain ill---William ShakespeareSonnet 66, part of the very Sonnet recited in the film, Repentance, ironically by the film’s evil figure VarlamIt is... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

67. Russian (former Soviet) director Elem Klimov's "Agoniya (Agony)" (1981): An intriguing film
There is much that would intrigue a viewer of Agoniya.Many may not be aware that this film was considered “worthless” in the Soviet Union after it was made and shelved for years. Director Elem Klimov made several changes to the 1975 original version and it was ultimately released in 1981 and... Read more...
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66. German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Yella” (2007): Life beyond death
Germany’s Christian Petzold belongs to the new breed of European directors that loves to make films layered with meaning for the astute viewer. Russia’s Andrei Zvyagintsev mesmerized serious film-goers with his multi-layered films that urge film-goers to approach cinema as one would approach... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

65. Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964): Unusual Hitchcock�"where marriage is preferred over jail by a strong-willed woman
This is NOT the stuff that director Hitchcock usually dealt with. The subject and the treatment of the subject are different from most of his other films.Hitchcock was scared of jails. In this film, the lead female character prefers to be bridled by marriage rather than go to jail. It is an... Read more...
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64. Russian (former Soviet) director Grigory Kozintsev’s "Korol Lir" (King Lear) (1971): An unsung masterpiece on "civilization heading to doom"
Time and again people have asked me which movie is my all time favorite. I have often said without much hesitation: the Russian film Grigory Kozintsev’s King Lear. Even close friends wonder if I have lost my wits because they expect my favorite would be Orson Welles's Citizen Kane or a work of... Read more...
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63. Spanish director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo’s feature debut “La noche de los girasoles (The night of the sunflowers)” (2006): A fascinating thriller
Here's a thriller with an interesting title that seems to query: Where do sunflowers face in the night?“When the sunflower plant, Helianthus annuus, is in the bud stage, the head and the leaves do indeed track the path of the Sun. The genus name Helianthus is from the Greek helios "sun" and... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

62. Haitian director Raoul Peck's US/French film "Sometimes in April" (2005): Remarkable feature film on the Rwandan genocide
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King, Jr.(Opening quote from the film)After I saw the Hollywood’s multiple Oscar nominated film Hotel Rwanda (2004) in a regular theater, I could stand up and be counted as one who felt... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

61. Iranian director Jafar Panahi's "Dayereh (The Circle)" (2000): Interesting cinema that calls for close evaluation
After making two feature films and many short films on children, director Jafar Panahi made a third feature film, The Circle, where he dealt with the condition of a wider gamut of the female gender in Iran. The new canvas included a girl child, a girl toddler left behind for adoption. a wide-eyed... Read more...
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60. Spanish director Carlos Saura’s stunning documentary on the Portuguese folk song tradition "Fados" (2007): Direction upstaging the song and singer
Seventy-six year young Carlos Saura charmed film lovers with several melancholic dance, music and song styles: flamenco in Flamenco (1995), Blood Wedding (1981) and Sevillanas (1992); tango in Tango (1998); and finally, opera and flamenco in Carmen (1983). Then comes his latest film Fados, a... Read more...
Published 6 months ago