In an early scene in Photograph, Ritesh Batra’s return to his hometown Mumbai after his directorial debut The Lunchbox, Gateway…
In an honesty-first keynote at the 2019 Film Independent Forum at Loyola Marymount University’s Playa Vista campus, self-effacing moviemaker and…
In an incandescent moment in Indian moviemaker Rima Das’ third feature Bulbul Can Sing, the titular character, an Assamese teenage girl, is guided onto the bough of…
Red mud-baked roads. A smoggy pink dawn. Air redolent with saffron. Loudspeakers propped precipitously. Two boys by a microphone hush…
For the past decade, the independent film scene in India has been thriving—in particular, movies that pick at the ancient…
If you’re going to Sundance, you’re going to Slamdance. And if you’re going to Slamdance, you’re going to Sundance. These…
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Twenty years ago, writer-director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient was released to a firestorm of critical and financial…
Los Angeles’ grandest festival begins in Hollywood next week, and it’s movie paradise. AFI Fest (November 10-17, 2016), now in…
A farmer—his name is Logandurai—sings in a grape orchard in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, far away from…
To be “different from a bigger crowd," said presenter Nico Santos, was the ethos of the 11th iteration of the…
“Guppies swimming in a tank, with the entire world peering in.” That’s how Aaron Wagner describes the Syrian refugees living…
Womanhood, desire and pain. Is there a more complex intertwining of human experience? Narratives at this intersection are manifold, but…
If you're a film aficionado looking for both eclectic fare and a high from buzzy world premieres, few fests beat…