Zana Marjanovic and Goran Kostic will soon be the talk of the town, or rather of nations. With a disturbing plot line that explores war, rape, victims of genocide and centuries of hatred, In the Land of Blood and Honey angered several people even when it was just in the process of being directed. Angelina [...]
March 7, 2010
Rashomon is a fascinating cinematic masterpiece by acclaimed Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa. On the surface what seems to be a simple tale of rape of a woman and murder of husband after they encounter a bandit in a forest becomes one of the most complex tales when none of the versions of the encounter [...]
November 18, 2009
Amèlie comes across as an amazing tale of journey of a young girl who grows up in isolation, boredom and is wrapped up in her imaginative world in Paris.
October 24, 2009
Divided We Fall is an amazing illuminating tale set in darkest of times. It reveals both, extreme human weakness in the face of adversity and also the human strength to rise above mundane existence to save a life and ability to cope with it all.
August 6, 2009
The German drama, Lives of Others (made in 2006), is a brilliant film about life in German Democratic Republic (GDR) that is East Germany before the collapse of Berlin wall.
July 23, 2009
Made in 1954, La Strada is a typical neorealist film which travels with the protagonists on the road and captures real essence of life through the lives of people on the streets.
July 1, 2009
Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is a neorealist Italian film about a man and his son's desperate search for a stolen bicycle.
June 18, 2009
The mind is a mysterious contraption in which lives a person far removed from the individual that one expresses overtly. In the dark halls and corridors of the mind roam ghost-like figures that appear to have some similarity to the individual seen in the real world; each of these ghosts appear to have been born [...]
June 13, 2009
Le Chat tells the story of an old couple alienated by each other and the ensuing struggles and pains.
May 20, 2009
Welcome to Sarajevo is a rare war feature film shot in Sarajevo and Croatia just a few months after the gruesome Bosnia and Herzegovina war.
May 14, 2009
For the first time in its entire history Cannes Film Festival opened with a 3D animation film.Thus animation moved into 3D as well as artistic dimension.
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