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Anurag Basu’s enchanting love story “Barfi” has been selected as India’s official Oscar submission. Released by Disney India, “Barfi” captures…

French writer-director Lorraine Levy’s “The Other Son” aptly uses a trope of classical theatre, two babies switched at birth, to…

Polish writer/director Jan Komasa’s Suicide Room is a dark exploration of emo culture and modern youth culture at large. In…

We want stories about heroes. We want to see people (usually men) of action who take life by the balls,…

Susan Morgan Cooper’s “Mulberry Child” is a study of a multi generational family fractured by the Cultural Revolution, based on…

In October 2011, the Polish film Róza (Rosa), directed by Wojciech Smarzowski who has two other award-willing feature films to…

While I enjoyed “Persepolis” with reservations (I preferred the flat black & white graphic style of the book to the…

Debut feature by director Matthew Mishory is a highly stylized period piece centered on and around James Dean, pre-fame. Executed…

Chen Kaige, arguably the most noted of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, lived through the Cultural Revolution. Shame at…

Filmmaker Vikram Gandhi grew up in New Jersey, where his upper middle class Indian-American family exposed him to traditional Hindu…