A disorienting film at first glance, Blue Sun Palace is the debut feature by Chinese-American filmmaker Constance Tsang. It takes place in the Chinese community of Queens, New York, and could easily be mistaken for a Chinese production if not for occasional English-speaking supporting characters. Blue Sun Palace is dominated by Mandarin dialogue, but it […]
The trailer for the late actor Satish Kaushik’s final film, ‘Mirg,’ is out. Since its release, the trailer has been making headlines everywhere and it continues to create a lot of buzz even after being dropped by the makers yesterday. The 2:08 minutes long trailer of ‘Mirg’ starts with Raj Babbar standing in front of
Having discovered that dead bodies are being brought back to life, a secret agency takes on two Martian factions and also Weres, Mummies in Damon Foster’s ridiculously wild Of Mummies and Martians. Prior to reviewing the DVD release “Of Mummies and Martians,” our first brush with Damon Foster‘s work was a delightful surprise. In 2020,
I understand Constanza Quatriglio’s impulse to record the disassembly of her father’s files. The disassembly is being done conscientiously and with all good intentions by archivists from the Central Library of the Sicilian Region, who are interested in materials relating to her father, Giuseppe Quatriglio. For 80 years, he was a journalist with the Giornale
In 2019, Nafi’s Father won the Best First Feature at Locarno for Senegalese director Mamadou Dia. For his second film, Demba also set in his hometown of Matam, in the north of the country he comes to Berlinale’s Encounters section. The main topic is mental health; he mixes up reality with memories and flashbacks and
The Malaysian psychological thriller “Korsakoff” has been awarded the Best Psychological Film for August, at the ongoing Cannes World Film Festival. The story is about a woman suffering from Korsakoff syndrome who gets abducted by someone. This condition causes memory confusion in individuals leading to difficulty in remembering recent events or acquiring new information. No
Displacement has been a recurring subject in the movies I’ve seen at this year’s True/False Film Festival, an annual event in Columbia, Missouri dedicated to nonfiction filmmaking, and each one of them seems especially urgent with the ongoing genocide in Palestine. It so happens that two Armenian films by women about the Artsakh War and
For many years, artist Drew Friedman has been recording a weird, alternate universe peopled by the likes of forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-spotted elevator operators. Vermeer of the Borscht Belt is an exhaustive documentary tracing Friedman’s evolution from underground comics to frequenting the cover of The New Yorker. Friedman may have grown
The story is about a girl from Bihar who got married to a boy from Jharkhand and how they were stuck on the boundary of the states when the lockdown was announced in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Kusum Ka Biyaah’ is an eye-opening narrative reflecting how decisions made by central government can affect people living
It was the Whispers That Killed Me occurs in a universe which relates with the foreign only through an image politics. Arthur Tuoto’s new feature film narrates the story of an actress (Ingrid Savoy) who is on the verge of debuting on a reality show amidst a social turmoil caused by anarchist groups and her
