Jugu Abraham

LATEST ARTICLES ( 163 )

• 187. French Director Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants Du Paradis” (The Children of...

  

  Mimes and circus clowns are sad personae who are loved by their audiences. Marcel Carné’s The Children of Paradise, if you have had the patience to view it for ... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2016 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 186. US Directors Frank Perry’s and Sidney Pollack’s “The Swimmer” (1968): Socia...

  

  Short stories have made interesting feature films. In the UK, short-story writer Alan Sillitoe adapted his short story The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runne... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 185. Soviet/Russian Maestro Sergei Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible, Part II:...

  

  The early works of Sergei Eisenstein such as The Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October: Ten Days that Shook the World (1928) were indisputably testaments of th... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 184. US Director Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” (2014): Transcending the Sport an...

  

  Foxcatcher is an amazing work of cinema from USA that recalls the quality of evolved filmmaking that one associate with Coppola’s The Conversation (1974),... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 183. Russian Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s US Film “Runaway Train”...

  

  Lady Anne: “No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity” King Richard: “But I know none, therefore am no beast.” --a conversation from Shakespeare’s... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 182. Indian Director Anand Gandhi's Debut Film “Ship of Theseus” (2012): A...

  

  The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had 30 oars, and was preserved by the Athenians, for they took away the old planks as they... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 181. US Director John Cassavetes’ “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” (1976)...

  

  I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 180. The Late Hungarian Maestro Zoltan Fabri’s “Az Ötödik Pecsét” (The Fifth...

  

  Very few films deal with philosophy and ethical human choices under extreme testing situations. The Fifth Seal is one that not only presents a philosophical... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 179. The Late French Director Maurice Pialat’s “La Gueule Ouverte” (The Mouth...

  

  Here’s a film every true film enthusiast ought to make an effort to see though it is rarely found on the “best film” lists of the better known film critics and... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 178. British Director and Screenplay Writer Mike Leigh’s “Mr Turner” (2014) Base...

  

  JMW Turner and John Constable were two of the finest painters in Nineteenth century England renowned for their emotional response to nature and are classified a... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 177. Swedish Director Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure” (Turist) (2014), Based on...

  

  What is force majeure? Force majeure — or vis major — meaning "superior force,” is also known as cas fortuit or casus fortuitus or a "chance occurrence,... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 176. Japanese Director Naomi Kawase’s “Still the Water” (Futatsume No Mado)...

  

  Naomi Kawase stated that she expected to win the Golden Palm at the 2014 Cannes film festival for her film Still the Water during a press conference but she... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 175. Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” (Kis Uykusu) (2014):...

  

  Winter Sleep is one of the outstanding cinematic works of 2014. Winter Sleep is a daunting 196 minutes long movie and could put off an uninitiated, immature... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 174. Belgian Directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Francophone Film “Two Days...

  

  The Dardenne brothers’ work Two Days, One Night is typical of a movie that makes you think beyond its apparent light-hearted positive ending that closes a... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 173. US Director Damien Chazelle’s Second Feature Film “Whiplash” (2014): The...

  

  “I saw a drive in him” —Terence Fletcher in Whiplash, referring to his former student Sean Casey “The next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged” —Terence... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 172. Argentine Director Damián Szifrón’s “Wild Tales” (Relatos Salvajes)...

  

  The "wild" characters from the six segments Wild Tales is a gem of an entertainer made up of six stand-alone, dark comic tales. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 171. Russian Director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Film “Leviathan” (2014): A Bold...

  

  “During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 170. The Late Chilean Maestro Raúl Ruiz' Portuguese Film “Mistérios De Lisboa”...

  

  “My films are not fiction films but about fiction”---Raúl Ruiz “In today’s cinema there is too much light, it is time to return to the shadows”--- Raú... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 169. French Director François Ozon’s French Film “Dans La Maison” (In the...

  

  François Ozon seems to be fascinated by what makes writers tick. And he loves to prod the viewer to reconsider his/her mental evaluation of fiction and reality... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 168. British Film Director Steven Knight’s Film “Locke” (2013) Based on His...

  

  There is something special when a director writes his own original script. And Steven Knight’s Locke is special, if an astute viewer evaluates what it offers. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 CULTURE, MOVIES