MK Raghavendra 's Blog
Minority View: Flandres by Bruno Dumont
Film festivals, I would like to argue, are not the places where the most radical films will get a fair viewing today.
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
Minority View is intended for forgotten films, largely, but Tarantino’s latest offering is such a provocative bit of filmmaking that I thought a ‘minority viewing’ would be in order.
Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas
Films about filmmaking represent a significant category within cinema and directors like Federico Fellini (8 ½, 1963), Francois Truffaut (Day for Night, 1973) and Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt, 1963) h
Memories of Murder by Joon-ho Bong
South Korean cinema has attained some prominence in international film festivals largely though filmmakers like Kim Ki-duk and Lee Chang-dong (Oasis - 2002).
Minority View: Police Python 357 by Alain Corneau
Alain Corneau is a minor filmmaker if only because it is difficult to find any thematic consistency in his oeuvre.
Minority View: The Human Beast by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir is a director associated with realist cinema and his films cannot be called ‘˜generic' - in the strict sense - although this will need to be elaborated upon. Genre films are, by and large, self-conscious works that refer to film convention while realist cinema is concerned with producing a ‘˜true' picture of the world. While genre cinema cannot exist without precedents, realist filmmakers like to believe that their vision of the world is not mediated by other films....
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