Critical Cinema

Space Cowboy

Immersive or embedded? Kathryn Bigelow's excellent The Hurt Locker is a moral minefield in itself

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Trip to freedom

Another Ang Lee tussle with freedom and repression hits the spot

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Love in the time of Mad Zombie Disease

They don't make zombies like they used to

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The Real Deal

Ramin Bahrani's chronicles of the working poor carve out a specifically American chapter in the Realist tradition very once in a rare while, you…

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Respect your elders, or go to hell

In recent years, horror films have taken a turn for the grotesque and the sadistic, demanding firm constitutions of their audiences. Fans are…

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Back to the future

Michael Jackson was not the only moonwalker commemorated this year; 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission that placed…

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"The most complete human being of our age"

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary and international statesman, has morphed into a catch-all left and counterculture…

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Moonwalker

A wacky, but poignant and fitting, tribute to MJ's life that MJ himself created

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Worlds apart

The pitfalls of meddling with fans

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The final journey

Probing our unease with death, Departures explores the catharsis of ritual and the dignity of work

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Forgotten

A reminder of the still unresolved and evolving predicament of Nepal's Bhutanese refugees

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Short cuts

A three-day animation films galore

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Post Traumatic Stress

Browsing through a bookstore in Mumbai recently, I asked the convivial proprietor whether he could recommend a title on the history of Pakistan.…

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Waltzing on a wire

The Academy Awards always has a certain self-congratulatory ring, members and audiences applauding their own supposed good taste: on one hand…

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Eastern Western

Baz Luhrmann's latest epic Australia still pays homage to Bollywood

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The Man and the Movement

Gus Van Sant's Milk proves that the past is the present, and the future too.

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Fresh take

Striking Nepali films at KIMFF

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UDHR turns 60

A season of often heart-rending documentary films define the myriad challenges ahead

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Seriously wicked

A more sombre, tortured Bond is no longer playing for laughs

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Of crime and punishment

Boy A has paid for his sins, but perhaps he hasn't paid enough

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The theatre of war

Chicago 10 and Battle in Seattle revisit protests

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Boxed up

The works of Miyazaki, Hitchcock and Almodovar

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Euromovies

To celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, several European embassies and cultural centres in Kathmandu have organised the…

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Sex and the city of Beiruit

Caramel, a sensual and warm debut from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, delights

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