About Ankur Agarwal

Ankur Agarwal

Ankur Agarwal is based in India currently, and he writes about cinema simply because he loves cinema. He would love one day making films, writing films. Till then, life continues. Besides, he loves playing sheepshead (schafkopf), reading Peanuts, and walking, walking alone. Yes, life continues. And so do great films keep getting made, newer stories, newer interpretations, newer atmospheres. He is a freelance editor for STM and humanities books.


Posts by ankur:

Pickpocket: Choreographed Masterpiece!

Ankur Agarwal writes about Robert Bresson's 1959 masterpiece Pickpocket A minimalistic style, Robert Bresson makes you feel the power of human soul, human hands, human emotions - repressed emotions, rusting intellect, objectless love - ...
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Jul 1st, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

Trois couleurs: Blanc: Blackest of comedies

From the famous Three Colors trilogy by Krzystof Kieślowski, Ankur Agarwal reviews here White. Blanc ("White" in English) is easily the film lacking layers in Kieślowski's Trois Couleurs trilogy. Though interestingly it ...
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Jun 12th, 2008 • More on: Classics, Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

A Short Film about Love: Review

Ankur Agarwal reviews Krzysztof Kieślowski's brilliant film on the sixth of the Ten Commandments, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", exploring voyeurism, love, and a slap on the face of all Hollywood's stale "coming of age" films....
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May 29th, 2008 • More on: Classics, Film Review, Movies, Upcoming, World Cinema, featured

La guerre est finie: The War is Over

Ankur Agarwal brings to you a three-part series on the greatest films made on resistance and underground movements around the world. This first part is about the underground movement against Franco's regime (Spain) and is one of the finest works of director Alain Resnais. This 1966 French film La Guerre ...
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May 9th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, Upcoming, World Cinema

Summer Interlude

Ankur Agarwal reviews Swedish master Ingmar Bergman's 1951 film Sommarlek (Summer Interlude) also known as Illicit Interlude and Summerplay To say a simple thing, yet beautifully, yet effectively, to show a story which hadn't had to use ...
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May 5th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured

Les Barbouzes: Watch it

A rip-off of all the thrillers, brilliantly seamed by Georges Lautner, Ankur Agarwal reviews here the 1964 Lino Ventura-starrer Les Barbouzes. A brilliant parody of all those James Bond kind of films, minus the gadgets but exposing all ...
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May 4th, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, Upcoming, featured

Gems, A Few of Them

Ankur Agarwal writes about his favourite films An "Author's Pick" is always a very bright idea and a very bad idea. Bright, since first of all it enables the reader to have some of the reviews ...
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Apr 29th, 2008 • More on: Author's Pick, Highlights, Movies

Trois couleurs: Bleu: Pain of love, desire for liberty

From the famous Three Colours trilogy by Krzystof Kieślowski, Ankur Agarwal reviews here Blue. Bleu (in English, Blue), from the Trois Couleurs trilogy of Krzysztof Kieślowski, is all about the pain of love. In many ...
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Mar 22nd, 2008 • More on: Film Review, Highlights, Movies, World Cinema, featured
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