Berlinale 2019 : A Superb Melodrama Woven Around China’s One-Child Policy
Plus loneliness in Brazil, angst in Russia, dreams in China, zombies in Austria
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Baradwaj Rangan
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Berlinale 2019: The Provocative, Thrilling ‘Synonyms’
Plus, games with death, Catherine Deneuve’s latest, and cult films by Bette Gordon and Derek Jarman
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Berlinale 2019: A Devastating “Pray The Gay Away” Drama
Plus, Kolkata tales, movie-watching in Sudan, and eroto-religious sci-fi
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Berlinale 2019: Photograph Movie Review – A Romance That’s A Little Too Low-Key, But With Winsome Little Touches
The danger of being a minimalist is that you have fewer notes to hit, and after a while, you run out of variations if the “plot” is small, too
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Berlinale 2019 : A Powerful Drama About A Man Who Mistakenly Says “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq”
Plus, Denis Côté’s ‘Ghost Town Anthology’, and walking out of ‘Mr. Jones’
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Gully Boy At Berlin: An Oral History
The premiere was near. Everyone was in a rush: producer Ritesh Sidhwani, director Zoya Akhtar, and stars Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. Here’s an attempt to capture the stream-of-consciousness of the interview sessions
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Berlinale 2019:The Art And Life Of Pauline Kael
Plus, Udita Bhargava’s ‘Dust’, an abstract movie-painting about the Maoist struggle
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My Favourite Film Decade: Bollywood in the 1980s
If you don’t get this decade, you don’t get Hindi cinema at all – it’s the melting-pot that took in the influences of earlier years and paved the way for today’s Hindi cinema
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Berlinale 2019: “For Non-Mainstream Films, It’s Essential To Think About International Distribution And Exhibition”
Filmmaker and Whistling Woods teacher Dar Gai, who’s at the Berlinale Co-production market, talks about co-productions
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Berlinale 2019: Francois Ozon Shines A ‘Spotlight’ On The Church And Paedophilia
Plus, a defiantly anti-narrative Mongolian drama that harks back to the heady days of “art cinema”.
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Gully Boy Movie Review: A Softer Than Expected, But Hugely Entertaining And Beautifully Made Street-Rapper Story
Gully Boy could be seen as an update on the Angry Young Man template – it’s moving, it’s rousing, it’s everything
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Berlinale 2019 – “These Primitive Tales Are Often Progressive In Nature”
A conversation with Prantik Basu, whose ‘Rang Mahal’, based on Santal folklore, is the only Indian film in competition at the Berlinale
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