Four short films dealing with AIDS awareness, directed by some of today's Indian directors, released in 2007.

You have to jump through a registration hoop to watch them at Jaman for free, but the quality is much better than over on youtube, where you can also find them.

Migration, directed by Mira Nair is the one that I found a little hard to ( Read more... )

Dev. D, directed by Anurag Kashyap, is a take on the classic Bengali novella by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Kashyap sets his version of the story in the present day, and shifts the action from Bengal to Chandigarh and Delhi. It is explicitly a depiction of the novel, rather than a remake of any previous film adaptation of the same story. However, ( Read more... )

I had a brief look through the movies I've reviewed on my lj and these were the really good ones by POC I could find. Links are to the reviews on my lj.

Vexille: In my opinion this blends the styles and strengths of western scifi and anime to create a really enjoyable, interesting film about a mechanised future and isolationist Japan. It reminded ( Read more... )