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Watched on Wednesday June 11, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday June 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Half of the film I saw two days back. Yesterday, a friend narrated (read: spoilt) the rest of the story to me. Today, I finished the film.

It’s so good. No spoiling helped, no macbeth readings, no maqbool rewatches, nothing affected the experience even one bit—taut slow-burns come rare but when a good one comes, no doubt we .

I think I’ve entered the pushkaran-khalid-sreedharan-pothan-aashiq abu-amal neerad magnetic field here, will revel in the flux a bit.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

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Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

when tabasco sauce, sriracha, jalapeños all hit together, the spicy chataaka? THAT is this film.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

hmm where does the QR code in the credits take us?

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday March 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

zindagi wahi hai,
mai, yahan khada, bhi wahi hun,
par kya bolun,
filmon se phir pyaar hogaya.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

bolly brainrot genre, but this time it is a fever dream mix of: 

Babylon - Om Shanti Om - Enter the Void - London Dreams - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi - Blade Runner 2049 - Partner - Challengers - Bareilly ki Barfi - Heyy Babyy - Jackie Brown - Welcome - Koi Mil Gaya

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 22, 2025.

elemental.

water; hurrying black umbrellas on black cobbled streets under the dark rains.
fire; dafoe lighting up a sinister laughter in the eye of fire.
sky; after the whole film being almost vantablack, the final cock crow bringing the vantagold dawn.
earth; well eggers too real for housing crisis and negligent brokers.

and add that performative nosferatu moustache as a fifth element.

Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.

Peak Farah Khan YES

but, also what was that 0.2sec Tabu cameo???

Watched on Sunday December 29, 2024.

Watched on Saturday December 21, 2024.

Watched on Monday December 16, 2024.

Watched on Saturday December 14, 2024.

gorgeous posters only**

• Holy Spider
• This Is Not a Film
• Junun
• Gamak Ghar
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
• Miss Lovely
• Nainsukh
• The Handmaiden
• Umrao Jaan
• Taste of Cherry

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

more interested in the filmmaking-in-films subset of meta// (drop suggestions fam)

• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
• One Cut of the Dead
• Living in Oblivion
• Adaptation.
• Synecdoche, New York
• The Vampires of Poverty
• Irma Vep
• This Is Not a Film
• Close-Up
• Kaagaz Ke Phool

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

kiarostami, panahi, makhmalbaf, farhadi

• Close-Up
• Life, and Nothing More…
• Where Is the Friend's House?
• Through the Olive Trees
• Taste of Cherry
• A Moment of Innocence
• A Separation
• Taxi
• Like Someone in Love
• A Hero

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai
• Cinema Pe Cinema: The Theatres. The Movies. And Us
• In the Land of Brothers
• Tees
• Bhed Bakri Bhoot
• Bobby Beauty Parlour
• Stranger Eyes
• Pooja, Sir
• Umbro
• Making Space

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Girls Will Be Girls
• Boong
• Anora
• The Fable
• All We Imagine as Light
• Happyend
• Santosh
• The Shameless
• An Unfinished Film
• Little Jaffna

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

some I saw and were good.
some I was told were good.

• Girls Will Be Girls
• Boong
• Emilia Pérez
• The Fable
• Anora
• Santosh
• Happyend
• Dying
• A Different Man
• An Unfinished Film

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

pre nfdc/ parallel cinema/ experimental films/ indian documentaries/ some early mainstream gems- watched.
ongoing.

• Neecha Nagar
• Awaara
• Two Acres of Land
• Pather Panchali
• Aparajito
• Pyaasa
• Mother India
• Pathetic Fallacy
• Apur Sansar
• Kaagaz Ke Phool

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Perfect Days
• Ruby Romance
• Bergman Island
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Junun
• Sidewalls

koreancinema

• Sweet Dream
• A Hometown in Heart
• The Housemaid
• A Day Off
• Woman of Fire
• Woman of Fire '82
• Incoherence
• White Man
• Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
• Peppermint Candy

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Against the Tide
• Which Colour?
• While We Watched
• And, Towards Happy Alleys
• World War III
• Indi(r)a's Emergency
• A Match
• Ri
• Joram
• Nocturnal Burger

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2023

1-29 Feature Narratives 

+ Bottle Radha (2023) - Dhinakaran Sivalingam

30-45 Feature Documentaries

+Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (2023) - Manthia Diawara
+Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Now & Then (2023) - Jyoti Nisha
+The Lotus And The Swan (2023) - Nirmal Chander
+Our Film (2023) - Dakxin Chhara

46-50 Young Adults

+Kulfi (2023) - Kiran Narayan Dhamale
+Out Beyond (2023) - Salman Alam Khan
+Roads (2022) - Daanish Shastri

51-68 Shorts

+Clement Town (2023) - Li Kuei-Pi
+Coming To / Making Your ? (2023) - Hansa Thapliyal
+A Flight of the Lost Dreamy Bird (2023) - Chaman Ramesh Kishan
+Hello Guyzz! (2023) - Samiksha Mathur
+In Between Us (2023) - Rajkumari Prajapati and Ruchika Negi
+The Missing Cow (2022) - Bhaskar Hazarika
+Moonless (2023) - Adheep Das
+Monographs 2023
+The Old, The New and The Other (2022) - Sebastien Simon
+The Poplar Trees (2023) - Manoj Kumar Pant
+The Scorpion (2023) - Sumedh Natu
+Gotho (2023) - Sainath S. Uskaikar
+Silent Walls (2023) - Suraj Bhattarai
+Tam-Bram Cooking (2023) - Sraiyanti H and Prem Akkattu
+When The Earth Rusted (2023) - Duttatreya Dey
+Windhorse (2023) - Sunil Gurung

Dates 

4th to 7th November 2023

1. Afire
2. All India Rank
3. Amar Colony
4. Autobiography
5. The Blue Caftan
6. Brothers
7. The Buriti Flower
8. Fallen Leaves
9. Family
10. Follower

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Joyland
• All That Breathes
• Sticks of Fury
• Pram Snatcher
• Drop Out
• SURPRI-!
• The Son
• For Heidi
• My Eyes Are Up Here
• The Riley Sisters

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

first + second new wave.

• Rebels of the Neon God
• A Confucian Confusion
• Vive L'Amour
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Yi Yi
• Taipei Story
• Stray Dogs
• A City of Sadness
• Terrorizers

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

visited swedish films canon

• The Seventh Seal
• The Virgin Spring
• Winter Light
• Autumn Sonata
• Songs from the Second Floor
• You, the Living
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Persona
• World of Glory
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

a long-awaited foray into film-noir.

• Double Indemnity
• In a Lonely Place
• The Killing
• Rififi
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Strangers on a Train
• Ace in the Hole
• Key Largo
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Third Man

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Harder They Fall
• Red Rocket
• Last Night in Soho
• Titane
• The French Dispatch
• A Hero
• Memoria
• The Tragedy of Macbeth