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2 weeks ago | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
I’ll come clean right up front and say that this has never been my kind of movie. The archetype of the hopeless romantic loner somehow finding love with not just one but multiple people in the perfect and most idealistic way they could have imagined is the antithesis of how I would consider relatable feelings on love and also being alone.
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3 weeks ago | 
vaguevisages.com | Soham Gadre
1970s Vague Visages’ The Sealed Soilessay contains spoilers. Marva Nabili’s 1977 movie features Flora Shabaviz. Check out more VV film essays at the home page. The recent awarding of Jafar Panahi’s latest meta-film It Was Just an Accident with the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is just another feather in the cap of the rich and illustrious history of Iranian cinema.
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1 month ago | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
I’ve always been astounded by the work of film restorations, which to me feels like the closest thing to actual magic and miracle that we have in the mortal world. When I saw clips of Ousmane Sembene’s Borom Saret in its youtube upload print and restoration side by side, it was pretty staggering. It sent a jolt of hope and enthusiasm in my veins that seems to come rarer and rarer nowadays.
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1 month ago | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
It’s always fun to see the kinds of journeys filmmakers take from their early to later work, often showing a progression that more hints at an economic trajectory rather than an artistic one.
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1 month ago | 
lwlies.com | Soham Gadre
About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.
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2 months ago | 
jacobin.com | Soham Gadre
Near the beginning of Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines, Stanley (Lewis J. Stadlen), the head of the advertising department, barges into an editorial meeting and delivers the bad news: “We’re going to have to cut some of your copy this week.” Nearly everyone who has held a freelance or staff position at a publication has heard something similar. I have mostly done freelance writing on the side of a more stable job that pays my rent, but I did work as a contracted writer at a few places.
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2 months ago | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
Last year was the first time I was introduced to the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look” program and I was so surprised by the selection of films and especially Lois Patiño‘s Samsara, which became my favorite film of 2024 and topped all of my year-end lists, that I couldn’t wait to cover the program again this year. The value of something like MoMIs “First Look” is that it decidedly focuses on experimental, documentary, and international cinema.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
Often referred to as “The Soviet Walt Disney”, I’ve gotten to the point of preferring the opposite designation – Walt Disney is “The American Aleksandr Ptushko”. Ptushko came later of course, beginning as an animator with The Missing Certificate (1927) and eventually becoming one of the Soviet Unions and later the world’s most imaginative auteurs with the release of the landmark historical fantasy film Ilya Muromets in 1956.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
When we think of clichés, the word is often used to describe mainstream cinema, particularly Hollywood, where tropes and narrative arcs and twists are well-worn and repeated. The word doesn’t get used enough I don’t think to describe festival material however.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre
Teal and orange have made a serious comeback, at least in Frederik Louis Hviid’s new Danish heist thriller The Quiet Ones. It’s an uninspiring choice that compliments the fact that this movie is packed with pretty much every cliché in the book.
