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Room 666 1982
It is extremely interesting to see the differences in perspectives between the hoard of European directors assembled (masters in their own right, don't get me wrong) and the few glimpses we get of Mike De Leon, Maroun Baghdad and Yilmaz Güney. It's only the directors hailing from countries which are seldom rewarded the glorification of possessing a "film culture" that end up making the most profound statements about the future of that culture. Indeed, to ask about the future of…
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Omkara 2006
a completely impulsive decision since I saw that a 4k version of the film was available on Amazon (it's incredibly hard to find Omkara and Maqbool in pristine viewing conditions okay?!) and got fucking duped bc they had censored all the profanities on streaming??????? There's a 720p print with bad sound quality available on YouTube of all places, but at least its not censored.
Anyway, it's been ages since I watched this film in completion - some shots, dialogues, and…
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Billu 2009
fun fact: billu was the third movie i ever pirated after delhi-6 and jodhaa akbar at age 5 (🙏🏽). there used to exist a weird (and sometimes verbally violent) sentiment in my extended family to compare billu and delhi-6 because we watched both movies in pirated cds on our resident dvd player. i used to get really mad because my older cousins would say D6 is better than billu.
After 15 years have passed, and D6 has been rewatched 4…
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