Jugu Abraham
Description
Former film critic at the Hindustan Times Group, New Delhi (1978-85).
Subsequently a Resource Mobilizer for UN- sponsored not-for-profit international agricultural research institutes.
Studied physics, literature, aesthetics, mass communication, and management.
MY BLOGS
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Movies that make you think
http://moviessansfrontiers.blogspot.com/
A selection of intelligent cinema from around the world that entertains and provokes a mature viewer to reflect on what the viewer saw, long after the film ends--extending the entertainment value
LATEST ARTICLES ( 168 )
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289. Iranian Director Jafar Panahi's 14th Feature Film "It Was Just an...
You killed me a hundred times. Have you forgotten? I am a zombie. One of the living dead.,,,Why did you destroy our lives? --Vahid a former victim of the... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2026 CULTURE, MOVIES -
288. Georgian Director Dea Kulumbegashivili's Second Feature Film "April"...
Do you understand how laws work? You will have no more patients; you will not have a job. Even if you are not arrested, you will be ruined. If you want to... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2026 CULTURE, MOVIES -
287. Indian Director Praveen Morchhale's Fifth Feature Film "White Snow" (2025)...
In recent months, two feature films set in the Union Territory of Ladakh, (a part of the former Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) were released: Maisam Ali's I... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2025 CULTURE, MOVIES -
286. Vietnamese Film Director Pham Ngoc Lan's Debut Feature Film "Cu Li Never...
"They say live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Un-whole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience. Read more
Posted on 19 November 2025 CULTURE, MOVIES -
285. Dominican Film Director Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias' Fourth Feature...
. What an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the film's duration by a... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2025 CULTURE, MOVIES -
284. Indian Director Payal Kapadia’s 2nd Feature Film “All We Imagine as Light”...
"There is always a feeling that I have to leave." -- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigrant to Mumbai, the Indian... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2024 CULTURE, MOVIES -
283. The Vietnamese Director Thien An Pham’s Debut Feature Film “Ben Trong Vo Ke...
“Faith is what I am searching for” --answers the film’s main character, Thien, to his toddler nephew’s question, on what is faith, soon after his dead mother... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2024 CULTURE, MOVIES -
The Polish Film Maestro Krzysztof Zanussi Converses with Jugu Abraham on 14 Dec...
Krzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at the Cannes film... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2023 CULTURE, MOVIES -
282. The Talented Indigenous Australian Filmmaker Ivan Sen’s 11th Feature Film...
"Limbo is the continuation of themes I explored in my previous films. Those earlier films dealt with indigenous perspective through the eyes of an indigenous... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2023 CULTURE, MOVIES -
281. German Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 11th Feature Film “The Bitter...
“Of course, he took me seriously, respected my opinions.. but, nevertheless, he wanted to be the breadwinner. That way, oppression lies; that’s obvious. Read more
Posted on 09 August 2023 CULTURE, MOVIES -
280. Russian Maestro Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s 24th Feature Film “Sin“...
“Arrogance is sin” “I wanted to find God; I only found Man” “Money always rubs elbows with infamy” --key lines spoken in Sin--co-scripted by Andrei... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2023 CULTURE, MOVIES -
279. Iranian Film Director Mohammad Rasoulof’s Second Feature Film “Jazireh Ahan...
Mohammad Rasoulof is different from most filmmakers. He does not adapt written works—he writes his own original screenplays stitched together from what he... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2023 CULTURE, MOVIES -
278. US Film Director Todd Field’s Third Feature Film “Tár” (2022), Based on...
Quotes from the film that provide glimpses of the thought-provoking script: (Tár, being interviewed by Adam Gopnik in front of a live audience on Tár... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
277. Japanese Film Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Fifteenth Feature Film “Broker”...
"'Thank you for being born.' - A single sentence that touches the audience in such a way that entire films rarely can. When every character, no matter how... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
276. The Late French Director Bertrand Tavernier’s Feature Film “Ça Commence...
"For its commitment to everyday heroism, its multi-layered approach to an array of social problems, and for the visual force of the storytelling. Read more
Posted on 22 August 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
275. Italian Director Paolo Taviani’s Twenty-second Feature Film “Leonora...
“Have any of you read Pirandello?” asks a senior priest in a Sicilian seminary to his junior priests “I read him in secret, then I confessed” replies a junior... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
274. Turkish Director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Eighth Feature Film “Baglilik Hasan”...
"You think you can go on a pilgrimage and come back clean as a whistle? Only God can forgive you, sir." --Turgut, an honest former employee of Hasan, branded... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
273. Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tenth Complete Feature Film,...
“A sound like a rumble from the core of the earth” —Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scotswoman and a scientist, describing the sound that woke her up one day from... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
272. Russian Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s Fifteenth Feature Film “Do...
A majority of film critics and viewers tend to dismiss Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s films in their initial assessments, especially in recent decades. Why is... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES -
271. Japanese Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Ninth Feature Film “Doraibu Mai Ka”...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car will appeal to different folks for totally different reasons. Those familiar with Haruki Murakami’s written work flock to... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2022 CULTURE, MOVIES
