All posts tagged Films

Revolution State of Mind: Part 2
April 1, 2011, 1 Comment

The Discriminating Dissident’s Essential Movie List 1. The Battleship Potemkin (1925) Adored by film students and dumb ...

World Invasion: Battle Snore-Fest (2011)
March 16, 2011, 10 Comments

I’m taking a short break from revolution movies to express outrage at Hollywood’s affinity for senseless ali ...

The King’s Speech: the ultimate feel-good film
February 12, 2011, 7 Comments

Ultimately, The King’s Speech is a feel-good bromance between Bertie and Lionel and it is practically impossible to no ...

The Best of 2010
December 26, 2010, 11 Comments

There isn’t much point in giving a preface before listing out the ten best films of the year. You know what its about ...

Dabangg – A Review (Guest Post)
September 21, 2010, 5 Comments

Nothing in the film is by chance, and it has been put together very consciously and very carefully. So carefully in fact ...

L.S.D. and the Age of the Camera*
August 27, 2010, 8 Comments

Anurag Kashyap often narrates the anecdote about his first movie, Paanch. Apparently, it was rejected the Censor Board c ...

L.S.D. and the Great Indian Middle Class in the Films of Dibakar Banerjee
August 17, 2010, 7 Comments

If Khosla Ka Ghosla established his credentials as a sensible and crafted filmmaker, Banerjee's second movie, Oye Lucky! ...