TALKING FILMS
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Start the week with a film: ‘Life Without Principle’ looks at the highs and lows of the stock market
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Start the week with a film: ‘A Hard Day’ is a breathless, breathtaking thriller
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Red Lorry Film Festival Picks: A dancer who refuses to quit and an alcoholic who can’t quit
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Mustang’ is a moving portrayal of redemption and freedom
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How the Cinevesture festival is building a marketplace for cinema: ‘I view every film as a start-up’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Sea of Love’ is a moody, sexy whodunit
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‘Santosh’ director Sandhya Suri: ‘A film that carries a feeling of care for India’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Nickel Boys’ erases the distance between character and viewer
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Start the week with a film: ‘Touch’ is a moving drama about the search for a long-lost love
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Start the week with a film: In ‘His Three Daughters’, rediscovering life while waiting for death
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In ‘Shadowbox’, the emotional punch of a family’s refusal to be defeated
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In Kannada film ‘Vagachipani’, a rural hotbed of greed and vice
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Order’ is a gripping exploration of America’s white militia problem
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Wim Wenders on cinema’s future: ‘Hope is an amazing driving force, it gives soul to whatever you do’
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‘A film that speaks to the way I understand cinema’: Boman Irani on directing ‘The Mehta Boys’
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Start the week with a film: A squishy extra-terrestrial and an adorable kid in ‘CJ7’
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The delicate wisdom and beauty of James Ivory’s films
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Sundance 2025: Awards for films about a resentful son and a bike-riding woman
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Sundance 2025: In ‘Didn’t Die’, an Indian American family battles zombies
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Sundance 2025: True crime and true lies in films about the Zodiac killer and China’s dating culture
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Girl with the Needle’ is a superbly crafted, haunting fable
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What’s behind the Indira Gandhi screen revival?
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In Marathi film ‘Sabar Bonda’, the forbidden fruit of gay love
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Shala’, love in the time of the Emergency
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Film: Malayalam whodunits are all the rage. How do they do it?
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Start the week with a film: ‘Pepe’ is the (possibly apocryphal) story of Pablo Escobar’s hippo
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‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’ at 25: An enduring charmer about losing and finding love and happiness
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Dracula in India: How filmmakers localised – and tamed – the vampire
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Start the week with a film: ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ is most charming
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Thelma’, a grandma takes on a phone scammer
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2024’s big film stories: A costly Oscar snub to the Hema committee report
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The best films we watched in 2024
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Start the week with a film: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ makes a solid case for itself
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite’, innocence and freedom in a jail
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Start the week with a film: Memories of another South Korean coup in ‘12.12: The Day’
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At Raj Kapoor centenary event, a celebration of his rich cinematic legacy and his famous family
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Start the week with a film: The original ‘The Day of the Jackal’ is a nail-biting thriller
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’ is all the rage
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Start the week with a film: ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ is a timeless political satire
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All we are and all we aspire to be: C Premkumar on the appeal of his fan favourite ‘Meiyazhagan’
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How the Sri Lankan civil war made its way into a French film about an undercover cop
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Donnie Brasco’, betrayal is hard when Al Pacino is around
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Start the week with a film: ‘Valu’ is a side-splitting comedy with a brilliant cast
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Start the week with a film: ‘Tortoise Under the Earth’ is a haunting portrayal of displacement
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Start the week with a film: ‘Loins of Punjab Presents’ hilariously spoofs Indian Americans
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‘Start the week with a film: ‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’ is life-affirming
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Dibakar Banerjee on his shelved film ‘Tees’: ‘Not so futuristic after all’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Kottukkaali’, a silence that speaks volumes
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Wolfs’, a match made in movie heaven
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Start the week with a film: ‘I Am Not a Witch’ is a deft blend of uneasy comedy and sensitivity
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Behind the re-run of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Mahanagar’, a marble-to-magic journey
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Start the week with a film: ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ is a heartbreaking tale of sibling love
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Start the week with a film: In ‘The Others’, a mother confronts her worst fears
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‘Masala’ revisited: Why the cult cosmic comedy has retained its kick three decades later
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Start the week with a film: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ is weirdly compelling
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Start the week with a film: ‘Gharat Ganpati’ gets into the festive spirit
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Start the week with a film: ‘Ullozhukku’ floats on the strength of terrific performances
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The rigour, discipline and beauty behind Gulzar’s immortal film song lyrics
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Swades’, the return of Mohan Bhargav and Shah Rukh Khan
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Start the week with a film: ‘Adagio’ has bad cops, Mafioso and stunning visuals
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How Malegaon’s film superheroes flew low and reached great heights
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Start the week with a film: In Korean comedy ‘Cobweb’, cinema weaves an inescapable web
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Start the week with a film: ‘Footloose’ makes you want to get up and dance away
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A screenwriter’s hot tip for success: Create ‘something new, but rooted in Indian realities’
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Start the week with a film: Creeping dread in the folk horror drama ‘The Witch’
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Start the week with a film: The many ways of seeing in crime thriller ‘Witness’
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Why Aditya Sarpotdar’s ‘Munjya’ is a Marathi film at heart, and how its success helped ‘Kakuda’
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‘Start the week with a film: Why the thriller ‘Missing’ about 1973 is still urgent and relevant
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Hounds’, Casablanca by night is a terrifying place
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‘Karparaa’: In a film about a village in Tamil Nadu, the eternal play of life and mortality
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Review: ‘The Iron Claw’ is a moving saga of sweat and sinew
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’, a woman’s desire takes flight
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Wicked Little Letters’, the joys of not minding your language
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Start the week with a film: ‘Godzilla Minus One’ has thrills plus heart
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Io Capitano’, a gripping tale of flight and fight
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Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix shows why free expression is vital for FTII and other institutions
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Start the week with a film: Why Farah Khan’s ‘Main Hoon Na’ is still a hit
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Start the week with a film: The unforgettable revolution of the dogs in ‘White God’
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Tokyo Sonata’, the unequal music of an emotionally distant family
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Start the week with a film: ‘Yannick’ is a comic take on trolls taking charge of art
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‘Fighters, not losers’: Rajesh A Krishnan on the three heroines of ‘Crew’
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A dummy’s guide to propaganda films in Bollywood
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Start the week with a film: In ‘The Wonder’, the strange truth behind a girl’s refusal to eat
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’, a star as well as an inventor
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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How Tamaki Matsuoka became an unofficial ambassador of Indian movies in Japan
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Traitor’ breaks the omerta on the Mafia
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In Fritz Lang’s cinema, the deadly beauty of doom
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Start the week with a film: ‘Mad Max 2’ and the satisfaction of a sequel well done
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Behind a new Josef Wirsching photography tribute: ‘The vision to recognise historical value’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Get Out’ takes you deep inside a house of horrors
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In Malayalam film ‘Bramayugam’, black and white magic in a colourful occult tale
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Why a Konkani musical made in 2014 is still playing on and on
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Nyad’, lessons in swimming – and life
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Start the week with a film: A red-hot romance in ‘Fire of Love’