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TIFF '19 Diary: Some directors don’t wear pants
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, an absurdist, dark comedy around bondage, dominance submission and masochism.
13 Sep 2019 12:40 AM
TIFF '19 Diary: The year’s sexiest film, and the stern gaze of an austere auteur
In her first scene itself, Lopez, who plays veteran stripper Ramona, grounds the film while establishing her power and prowess.
09 Sep 2019 11:07 PM
TIFF: Films, FOMO and state of the nation
Indian movies represent state of India’s liberal, genteel intelligentsia in more ways than one.
09 Sep 2019 6:50 AM
The art and artifice of ‘personal’
Priyanka-Farhan starrer The Sky is Pink is a melodrama that mines a real-life tragedy.
07 Sep 2019 1:55 PM
Tiff, the ‘Oracle of Oscars’, opens with 4 Indian films and the tale of a yogi
Tiff voted Green Book as the best film and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma as the best foreign film.
06 Sep 2019 9:00 AM
Saaho movie review: Big, bulky and rather banal
Saaho’s hankering for fame and fortune rests almost entirely on the fact that it stars Prabhas.
31 Aug 2019 11:51 AM
Saaho movie review: Big, bulky and rather banal
Saaho, which cost around Rs 350 crore, is long — six minutes short of three hours.
31 Aug 2019 1:33 AM
Batla House movie review: If only it were about the encounter
This could have been made slightly palatable if the film were intelligent, well-made and thrilling.
17 Aug 2019 1:15 AM
Mission Mangal movie review: Oh, these women from Mars!
Mission Mangal opens on a rushed morning in a middle class household run by a multi-tasking Tara Shinde (Vidya Balan).
17 Aug 2019 1:10 AM
Super 30 movie review: The Dronacharya who embraced Eklavya
Super 30 tells us the story of the dreamers, and a dream-maker.
13 Jul 2019 2:55 AM
Nakkash movie review: A story of how love can wilt in the face of hate
Vedantji is proud of the tradition of Muslim artists decorating the sanctum sanctorum of his temple.
01 Jun 2019 1:23 AM
Cannes, and losing it at the movies
It has now emerged that director Kechiche pressured the actors to engage in the explicit sex scenes.
30 May 2019 5:58 AM
Cannes overlooks stronger movies, actors as it announces 1st round of awards
Talent matters, of course. But loyalty counts for a lot, especially because Cannes’ rules demand a huge sacrifice.
26 May 2019 1:20 PM
Quentin Tarantino's star-spangled movie is a love letter to Sixties Hollywood
The Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt starrer is soaking in and dripping with not just Hollywood star power, but also nostalgia.
25 May 2019 12:54 AM
Cannes 2019: Two legends, two cautionary tales
British director Kapadia’s third and last instalment in a trilogy about child prodigies who struggled with fame.
21 May 2019 7:07 PM
Cannes 2019: Terrence Malick’s ‘conscientious objector’ brings hope on a hopeless day
Malick's 'A Hidden Life' stars Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who portrayed Adolf Hitler in Downfall (2004).
20 May 2019 6:41 PM
When Cannes goes political, it shocks, singes, transforms
Why Cannes really matters is because of the movies it picks to show and celebrate. Because, movies matter.
17 May 2019 6:31 PM
Cannes 2019: The curse of opening films and AR Rahman's favourite smell
The curse of the opening film struck again on Tuesday evening at Festival de Cannes
15 May 2019 5:27 PM
At Cannes, loyalty and friendship trumps all
The 72nd Festival de Cannes that kicked off with The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie film, on Tuesday evening.
14 May 2019 5:44 PM
Kalank movie review: Puny human drama in a grand setting
While the movie is able to pull off spectacle with stunning effect, especially in the Dussehra sequence, human drama falls short.
20 Apr 2019 12:57 AM
Columns
Frankly, it’s not just bizarre but deplorable to frame differences over the efficacy of Covaxin as issues of national pride
While India would be happy with the tone and tenor on China, though what the new China containment strategy will be is still unclear
The love jihad law legislated by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has triggered a letter war between former bureaucrats
Biden will no doubt be deeply conscious that he comes in as the chief at a deeply corroding moment in American life