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Citizen Kane (1941): Orson Welles' magnum opus and arguably the greatest motion picture of all time

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Welles' mesmerizing narrative on power induced corruption A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic ...

Gone with the Wind (1939): Victor Fleming's Oscar-winning epic war drama starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable

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Margaret Mitchell's treatise on the old American way of living A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb ...

La Strada (1954): Italina maestro Federico Fellini's case-study on the classical theme of love and denial

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Fellini's treatise on love, trust, betrayal and alienation A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Criti...

Bicycle Thieves (1948): Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Neorealistic masterpiece

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A maelstrom of human emotions that paves the way for catharsis A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Criti...

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): Italian maestro Sergio Leone's greatest tribute to the "Western" genre

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Leone's piquant cocktail of style and substance A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Ran (1985): Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa's visual spectacle

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Nakadai's haunting portrayal makes Ran an unforgettable experience A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMD...

Dersu Uzala (1975): Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's lyrical masterpiece

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Dersu Uzala (1975) - By Akira Kurosawa ...

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Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over seven years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He is also the Films Editor at the New York City-based publication Cafe Dissensus and regularly contributes to The Hindu, The Sunday Guardian, DailyO, and National Herald. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to online publications like Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He is also on the guest panel for live discussions on the television news channel NewsX.

His education spans science, technology, mass communication, and management. But cinema remains his first love. His all-time favorite movie-makers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. He can be reached at murtaza@apotpourriofvestiges.com / murtaza.jmi@gmail.com. He tweets @apotofvestiges.