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292. US film director Jim Jarmusch's 15th feature film "Father Mother Sister...
Can you toast with tea, though? --the film's character Jeff (Adam Driver) playing the role of a son, following a toast by his father raising three glasses of water, some with ice cubes (geographical...
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291. Italian film director Paolo Sorrentino's 10th feature film "Grace" (La...
God suggests questions and carefully avoids giving answers. It is not our task to provide answers. It is not the task of science to provide answers.-- A fictional black Pope advising his troubled...
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290. The late Hungarian director Béla Tarr's seventh feature film "Kárhozat"...
Director Béla Tarr is someone who "created colors by making them disappear" (a trite reference to his black-and-white films) and as an artist who, in his films, "tried to speak as the sinner who,...
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289. Iranian director Jafar Panahi's 14th feature film "It was Just an...
You killed me a hundred times. Have you forgotten? I am a zombie. One of the living dead.,,,Why did you destroy our lives? --Vahid, a former victim of the sadistic Eghbal, a prison...
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288. Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashivili's second feature film "April"...
Do you understand how laws work? You will have no more patients; you will not have a job. Even if you are not arrested, you will be ruined. If you want to work, you have to obey the laws. Sometimes,...
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287. Indian director Praveen Morchhale's fifth feature film "White Snow"...
In recent months, two feature films set in the Union Territory of Ladakh, (a part of the former Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) were released: Maisam Ali's In Retreat (2024, in Hindi language and...
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286. Vietnamese film director Pham Ngoc Lan's debut feature film "Cu Li Never...
"They say live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Un-whole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience."--- words spoken, underscoring the importance of time, by the...
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285. Dominican film director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias' fourth...
. What an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the film's duration by a hippopotamus, who realizes it is dead (in...
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284. Indian director Payal Kapadia’s 2nd feature film “All We Imagine as...
"There is always a feeling that I have to leave."-- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigrant to Mumbai, the Indian metropolis "Desire, love, religion, class,...
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283. The Vietnamese director Thien An Pham’s debut feature film “Ben trong vo...
“Faith is what I am searching for” --answers the film’s main character, Thien, to his toddler nephew’s question, on what is faith, soon after his dead mother is described publicly as someone had...
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The Polish film maestro Krzysztof Zanussi converses with Jugu Abraham on 14...
Krzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at the Cannes film festival for The Constant Factor (1980)., the...
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282. The talented indigenous Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen’s 11th feature...
"Limbo is the continuation of themes I explored in my previous films. Those earlier films dealt with indigenous perspective through the eyes of an indigenous police officer. Limbo explores the deeper...
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281. German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 11th feature film “The...
“Of course, he took me seriously, respected my opinions.. but, nevertheless, he wanted to be the breadwinner. That way, oppression lies; that’s obvious. It’s like this, ‘I hear what you are saying...
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280. Russian maestro Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s 24th feature film “Sin“...
“Arrogance is sin” “I wanted to find God; I only found Man” “Money always rubs elbows with infamy” --key lines spoken in Sin--co-scripted by Andrei Konchalovsky and Elena KisalevaAndrei...
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279. Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof’s second feature film “Jazireh...
Mohammad Rasoulof is different from most filmmakers. He does not adapt written works—he writes his own original screenplays stitched together from what he observes and hears from Iranian compatriots....
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278. US film director Todd Field’s third feature film “Tár” (2022), based on...
Quotes from the film that provide glimpses of the thought-provoking script: (Tár, being interviewed by Adam Gopnik in front of a live audience on Tár conducting Mahler’s Adagietto Symphony no.5)...
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277. Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s fifteenth feature film...
"'Thank you for being born.' - A single sentence that touches the audience in such a way that entire films rarely can. When every character, no matter how small or large, is intricately layered,...
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276. The late French director Bertrand Tavernier’s feature film “Ça commence...
"For its commitment to everyday heroism, its multi-layered approach to an array of social problems, and for the visual force of the storytelling.” --Citation of the FIPRESCI award bestowed on the...
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275. Italian director Paolo Taviani’s twenty-second feature film “Leonora...
“Have any of you read Pirandello?” asks a senior priest in a Sicilian seminary to his junior priests “I read him in secret, then I confessed” replies a junior priest meekly, with penitence, “I have...
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274. Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu’s eighth feature film “Baglilik Hasan”...
"You think you can go on a pilgrimage and come back clean as a whistle? Only God can forgive you, sir." --Turgut, an honest former employee of Hasan, branded as a thief by Hasan, when Turgut procured...
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