rahul ranjan

rahul ranjan

Favorite films

  • Close-Up
  • Taxi Driver
  • The Turin Horse
  • The Florida Project

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  • Adolescence

    ★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★½

  • Extraction 2

    ★★★★

  • Mississippi Burning

    ★★½

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  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    ★★★★

    Third episode is absolute perfection where the 13 years old Owen channels his inner PSH and Hopkins, how did they manage to get such a performance from a 12 years old non actor all while filming the whole episode in 1 take?

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★½

    The whole Mann's planet segment is peak cinema. It's almost like a great great short film in itself.
    Hans Zimmer's score there along with Hoytema's cinematography, some brilliant writing which is as emotionally charged as it can be and some of the best acting by Damon really made that a personal fav sequence for me.

    As Madhukar pointed out people don't give enough credit to Chastain but she carries the second half, imo the three best characters here are hers, Hathaway's and Damon's.

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  • The Disciple

    The Disciple

    ★★★★½

    87/100

    The worst feeling in one's life is to realise that what you love the most doesn't love you back.

    Chaitnya Tamhane's sophomore feature follows the lifelong quest of Sharad Nerulkar who's seeking admiration and enlightenment in an arcane art form.
    What separates Sharad from any other 'up and coming artist' protagonists is that he's the side hero of his own film, he doesn't control his narrative instead he's controlled by them.

    He's not talented enough as he'd like to,…

  • Jai Bhim

    Jai Bhim

    An extremely important and timely story told by a wrong set of people in an immensely outdated fashion.
    Jai Bhim defeats the very purpose it set out to advocate. By establishing the tribals as a bunch of well meaning people who doesn't have any kind of agency, makers instead of building the story around their oppression stereotypes them as powerless meeks in desperate need of a savior. Who should have been the main players are reduced to just plot devices…

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