Jugu Abraham

LATEST ARTICLES ( 168 )

• 132. Spanish Director José Luis Cuerda’s Film “La Lengua De Las Mariposas”...

  

  Cuerda? Who is that? When you read about modern cinema from Spain most critics seem to talk of Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, and Alejandro... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 131. U.S. Director Arthur Penn’s “The Missouri Breaks” (1976): Re-evaluation of ...

  

  The Missouri Breaks deserves more attention than it has received over the years. Apart from the fact that it contains one of the most darkly comic lines ever... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 130. Korean Filmmaker Chang-dong Lee’s “Shi” (Poetry) (2010): Learning to Look a...

  

  Good Korean cinema often involves very little verbal talk. The visuals often do the talking, which is not common for movies made in most parts of the world. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 129. Chadean Filmmaker Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's “Un Homme Qui Crie” (A Screaming...

  

  “Be careful not to cross your arms over your chest, assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, because life is not a spectacle, a sea of pain is not a... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 128. Russian Director Alexander Sokurov’s German Film “Faust” (2011):...

  

  Alexander Sokurov’s Faustis a complex film. It is also an amazing film dealing with the good and the evil in each of us. There are sections of the film that... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 127. Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “Bé Omid é didar/See You Later” (Good...

  

  The overall impact of viewing the Iranian film Goodbye reminds you of another unrelated film from USA. Way back in 1964, Hollywood produced a film called The... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 126. Japanese Director Naomi Kawase’s “Hanezu No Tsuki” (Hanezu) (2011): The...

  

  Naomi Kawase is arguably the most interesting active Japanese director today. Her cinematic themes are intrinsically correlated with Asian traditions and these... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES

• 125. Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da” (Once Upon...

  

  Turkish cinema made an impact on the world map in the early Eighties essentially because the honest nationalist realism of the Kurd... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2012 CULTURE, MOVIES