Barrage, Review by Siraj Syed: Exquisite ennui Some exquisite nature photography cannot save this Luxembourg-Belgium-France co-production from recurring ennui. A wafer thin story about three...

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Isabelle Huppert
Lolita Chammah
Laura Schroeder
ThemisPauwels
Elsa Houber
feminist
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#NYCIndieFF Celebrates Pride is a screening event that highlights some of the best storytelling by LGBTQ+ filmmakers and highlights complex characters in the community. Round out Pride Month with...

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With our latest edition coming to a close, we are excited to announce this has been our greatest year yet! The NYC Independent Film Festival had 4,200 attendees over a week of screenings, events,...

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Memo to all journalists, film critics, bloggers and other accredited attendees of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.   London, 21/05/2017 For immediate release: The British Urban Film...

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Hindi Medium, Review by Siraj Syed: Admission only to the affluent and fluent If you want to get your child admitted in any one of the top five schools in New Delhi, you have to be affluent, fluent...

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Deepak Dobriyal
Amrita Singh
Vijay Kumar Dogra
Taran Bajaj
Jaspal Sharma
Rohit Tannan
Devansh Sharma
Sreekar Prasad. Sachin-Jigar
Anil Mohile
Ramdhenu
Zeenat Lakhani
Saket Chaudhary
Right To Admission Act
Chandni Chowk
Vasant Vihar
Irrfan Khan
Saba QamarZaman

The Sense of an Ending, Review by Siraj Syed: Sensible transition from novel to film Many a times, tragic-romantic novels that get made into films tend to be laboured and over ‘textualised’. Not so...

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Andrew Buckley
bristol
cambridge
Charlotte Rampling
Edward Holcroft
Emily Mortimer
Frank Kermode
Harriet Walter
James Wilby as David Ford
Jim Broadbent
Joe Alwyn
Michelle Dockery
Nick Payne
Ritesh Batra
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On the Kindness of Strangers • May 17, 2017 at 10:44 AM
by Phillip Bergson

There is another White House, an iconic apartment-house opened in  1936,and now a listed building, in bustling Marylebone, close to Regent's Park in the centre of London, and opposite the site of the...

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A legendary London Art-Deco hotel
hosts film and artists again
long-associated with artistes
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Curtain up on Iron Curtain films! • May 09, 2017 at 09:00 PM
by Phillip Bergson

Almost in defiance of the impending gloom of Brexit, London continues to host a plethora of European film events, national film-weeks and a variety of cultural cinematic gatherings, screenings and...

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Movie memories, by Siraj Syed—Bowling for Columbine (2002): Gun lobbies and gun hobbies America has the highest rate of gun-related deaths and some critics of the gun culture refer to the gun lobby...

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Where to Invade Next
Michael Moore in Trumpland
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
michael moore
Charlton Heston
National Rifle Association
Littleton
Marily Manson
matt stone
Colorado
Bill Clinton
racial stereo-typing
sicko
Slacker Uprising
Captain Mike Across America
Capitalism: A Love Story
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Script session Festival Du Cannes • May 03, 2017 at 04:05 PM
by Atlanticmedia

Atlanticmedia are holding a script session at The Festival Du Cannes this season.  A daily course guarateed to bring out the best of your creative juices with a screenplay ready to roll hotly tipped...

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