Federico Fellini’s The Swindle, part of Berlinale Classics, brings to fore the filmmaker’s deeply Catholic concerns
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoFellini’s religious portrayals have always been criticised by a section of conservative Italian society, leading them to wonder if he is really a Catholic.
Pain and Glory movie review: Pedro Almodovar digs deep into his past in an intimate self-portrait
Prahlad Srihari • 5 years agoPedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory is a painfully honest portrait of an artist in a personal and professional crisis.
Roma: Alfonso Cuarón has developed into an able craftsman but does not have anything of significance to say
Mk Raghavendra • 6 years agoWhat critics respond to most is the look of a film and it is only in its ‘look’ that Roma comes up trumps; still, the look of a film is not something it is long remembered by.
La Strada, Two English Girls, Three Colours: Red — Baradwaj Rangan's favourite foreign films
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoHere's Baradwaj Rangan's list of his favourite foreign films.
Federico Fellini's cinema is like reading a Latin-American novel — humane, dreamy and poetic
Baradwaj Rangan • 7 years agoFellini's films make sense in a primal way – like poetry.