Aryan Tauqeer reviews Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s cinematic letter to the city of Kolkata. Earlier last year, the incumbent Bharatiya …
LIFF 2022: ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’ Review
LIFF 2022: ‘Do Baaraa’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews LIFF’s opening night film Do Baaraa, an Anurag Kashyap mystery drama. “Gangs of Wasseypur has been my greatest undoing” This was Anurag …
FOMI 2022: ‘Sudden Light’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews director and UCL alumni Sophie Littman’s Cannes-contending experimental short. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal text Sculpting in Time, there is a deliberation upon …
Metatextuality and ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
A reflection. An image all too familiar from countless bouts of repetition, inscribed into the mind. The shadows, the sheen, the sounds-they’re all the same. …
‘The Card Counter’ (2021) Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews Paul Schrader’s newest directorial venture. A mirror image of many of the traits he writes for his characters, Paul Schrader has grown …
LEAFF 2021: ‘Limbo’ Review
LEAFF 2021 celebrates its sixth year with a programme of thirty films from celebrated and debut filmmakers. Championing East Asian cinema, LEAFF aims to bring …