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The aesthetics of Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa, whose Vitalina Verala will be screened at Sundance Film Festival 2020
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoPortuguese auteur Pedro Costa's latest film, Vitalina Varela, was screened at the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, and it will play at Sundance, this month
Arturo Ripstein’s Devil Between the Legs, screened at IFFI, deals subversively with sex, jealously and aging
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoDevil Between the Legs, screened at IFFI, revolves around a couple, Beatriz (Sylvia Pasquel) and her insanely jealous husband (Alejandro Suárez; his character stays unnamed), who suspects that she sleeps around.
Queen of Hearts, Denmark’s Oscar submission that played at IFFI, is a cold take on incest and shattered lives
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoQueen of Hearts dives into things we don’t even want to think about, and leaves us with questions we cannot even begin to answer.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and its non-dramatic drama: What it means for a film style to be 'transcendental'
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoWhat is “transcendental” style of cinema? It’s one of the precursors of what we call “slow cinema” today.
Why Gully Boy is the right choice for Oscars: Visibility, international buzz gives the film a real shot
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoJust a casual glance at the submissions for the Foreign Film Oscar in the last decade reveals how important international cachet is, whether the director himself/herself has that cachet yet.
Why Czech film Extase, by Gustav Machatý, is important for the history of the Venice Film Festival
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoExtase, Czech film by Gustav Machatý from 1933, and its continuous connection with Venice Film Festival.
With the end of Cannes 2019, here’s looking back at Palme d’Or winners over the years
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoNow that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has won the Palme d’Or, let’s look back down the years and see if we can settle on the one Palme d’Or winner to beat all others.
Cannes 2019: Remembering a classic film with Alain Delon, recipient of the honorary Palme d’Or
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoAlain Delon is being awarded the Palme d'Or this year at Cannes — despite the controversy around him as he “is a legendary actor and part of Cannes history”.
Capharnaüm, directed by Un Certain Regard jury president Nadine Labaki, questions the ethics of having children
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoThis year’s jury president of Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival is Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, whose film Capharnaüm was part of last year’s Competition and won the Jury Prize.
As Xavier Dolan completes 10 years in cinema, a look at Tom at the Farm
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoCanadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan's work often contains queer themes.