Film - Ronak Parmar

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring: Life just is, but what is it?

Art Cinema Film Opinion Philosophy

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring: Life just is, but what is it?

Anyone aware of Kim Ki-duk knows how obscure, metaphorical and mysterious his films are. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring is no different. If...

Art Cinema Film Opinion

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The Red Turtle: Hey!

A shipwrecked man finds himself deserted on a secluded island and struggles to save his life but his efforts are constantly made futile by...

Art Cinema Film Opinion

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Pather Panchali: What is important?

Pather Panchali is a film that every film lover thinks has contributed the most to the Indian cinema scene and I agree with most...

Zorba the Greek: A celebration of life(?)

Art Cinema Film Opinion Philosophy

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Zorba the Greek: A celebration of life(?)

A young, borderline austere Englishman visits a small village in Greece to claim his inheritance and finds a middle-aged man who helps him learn...

Idlers of the fertile valley: Allegory for the present times?

Art Cinema Film Opinion Philosophy

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Idlers of the fertile valley: Allegory for the present times?

Idlers of the fertile valley is a 1978 Greek drama film revolving around a father, his three sons and a maid who takes care...

Harakiri: Your morals and ideals are all a facade

Art Cinema Film Opinion Philosophy

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Harakiri: Your morals and ideals are all a facade

Harakiri the 1962 Japanese gem is much more than a simple story of a ronin (a Samurai who no longer serves a feudal lord)...

Cinema Film Opinion Philosophy

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Rashomon: You decide

Rashomon is another 1950 Japanese masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa. It follows an incident in which a bandit kidnaps, rapes a woman and later kills...

Sansho the Bailiff- 1954 Japanese period drama that feels surprisingly like Bollywood 80's films

Cinema Film Opinion

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Sansho the Bailiff- 1954 Japanese period drama that feels surprisingly like Bollywood 80's films

Sansho the Bailiff is a film set in medieval Japan based on a story of the same name. This story is in turn based...

As simple as it can get: Intouchables(2011)

Cinema Film Opinion

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As simple as it can get: Intouchables(2011)

Intouchables is a 2011 French comedy film based on the memoir (You changed my life) by Abdul Sellou. The film went on to break...

Film Criticism, appreciation or overanalysis?

Art Cinema Film Opinion

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Film Criticism, appreciation or overanalysis?

Everybody visits IMDB to check the rating of any movie before tuning into it and the more enlightened ones check out Rotten Tomatoes to...

Cinema Film Opinion

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Cinema Paradiso: For the love of Cinema

Having watched this masterpiece a few weeks back and still having it revolve in my mind till now surely tell me that this film...

The powerful female leads in Studio Ghibli movies

Cinema Film Opinion

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The powerful female leads in Studio Ghibli movies

Japan’s anime is famed worldwide not just because of the animation style but also for the storytelling techniques. Perhaps the most well known Japanese...

Art Cinema Film Opinion

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The cultural impact of Films

The cultural impact of films in the modern era was impossible for the Lumiere Brothers to know when they invented their cinematograph projector. The...