Full review published in Cinema Sentries. In Spanish, Mirador means “lookout.” The word has multiple connotations. Alertness, observation, prediction, or a person assigned to keep an eye on his surroundings. The last of the aforementioned undertones befit the documentary’s subject matter, that encircles three friends and the solidarity among them. The irony, though, is all of them are visually-impaired, meaning they can’t keep an eye on each … Continue reading Mirador: Captures the Ethos of Camaraderie

Published in Cinema Sentries. In 2007’s Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Willem Dafoe played Carson Clay, a filmmaker whose film ‘Playback Time’ premieres at Cannes. Tommaso, which also premiered at Cannes last year, reminded of the aforementioned film-within-film, only less absorbing and exponentially more pretentious. The film brings back Dafoe into an Abel Ferrara contemplation for the fifth time, with their last collaboration being Pasaloni (2014), a film that chronicles the life … Continue reading Tommaso: A Humanistic Drama That’s Devoid of the Drama

Benjamin Ree’s The Painter and The Thief is a musing, contemplative portraiture of juxtaposing individuals… Continue reading The Painter and the Thief: Therapeutic Portrayal of Uncommon Intimacy

Published in Cinema Sentries. When Martin Scorsese is the focal point of conversations between cinephiles, it is highly likely that the master’s gangster-films – which made him the filmmaking brand he is – permeate the circumference of the discussion. Agreed, Scorsese’s vision added a layer to the aforementioned genre, and his films have become the calibration standards to evaluate contemporary films falling under the gangster’s … Continue reading In Search of Kundun: Review | For The Love Of Scorsese And His Pictures

Published in Cinema Sentries. The Wolf House is 73 minutes of “Wow! How did they pull off?”. The startling stop-motion animation, which bestows ‘awe!’ after ‘awe!’ every minute is only one of the pillars that hold this astonishing form of story-telling. Masquerading as a propaganda film to cleanse the ill-reputation of Colonia Dignidad, an isolated community formed by German fugitive Paul Schäfer, there’s more to the … Continue reading The Wolf House: Review