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Cinema Top 100: A list of all time favorite films from the world of cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Note: This post is a part of our  Best of the Best Blogathon   C inema is a way of life: for...
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Indie Watch: A spotlight on three independent films from across the globe

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Whenever we talk of the 21st century cinema it's imperative to talk about independent filmmakers. Bu...
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Best of the Best Blogathon: December 2012 to January 2013

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Complete List of Reviews Blogathon Logo The year 2K13 will soon be dawning upon us. And the ti...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - The first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy

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A worthy prequel to The Lord of the Rings A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews  ...
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Talaash (2012): India filmmaker Reema Kagti's flawed but gripping suspense thriller with a psychological bent

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Aamir and Nawazuddin shine in police procedural A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Review...
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Life of Pi (2012): Ang Lee's visually stimulating tale of survival with a weak intellectual appeal

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Lee's perfunctory rendition of Martel's profound literary vision A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featur...
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Delusion (2012): A Short Film on The Millennium Prize Problems by Manendra Lodhi

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A Potpourri of Vestiges was started with the hope of propagating the power of cinema to all the corn...
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Three Colors: Blue (1993) - First installment in Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy on the contemporary French society

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A film  on  1 Corinthians Chapter 13  -  a Biblical chapter on love & maturity A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...
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A Vote of Thanks: A Potpourri of Vestiges hits the 200K counter

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A Pure Formality (1994): Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore's psychological masterpiece

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Depardieu and Polanski make the film unforgettable  A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  ...
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Skyfall (2012): British filmmaker Sam Mendes' espionage film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

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Mendes blends the old with the new in the highest-grossing Bond film ever A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featu...
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Chakravyuh (2012): Indian filmmaker Prakash Jha's political thriller based on the Indian Naxalite movement

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Chakravyuh (2012)   -   By Prakash Jha ...
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Twixt (2011): American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s bizarre yet commendable exercise in pretence

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Twixt (2011)   -   By Francis Ford Coppo...
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Cosmopolis (2012): Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's nightmarish sneak peek into the hyperreal

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Cosmopolis (2012)   -   By David Cronen...
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Killing Them Softly (2012): Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik's parable on the decline of American Capitalism

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Killing Them Softly (2012)   -   By Andr...
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Fire in Babylon (2010): English filmmaker Stevan Riley's documentary based on the dramatic rise of the West Indian cricket during the 1970s/80s

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Fire in Babylon (2010)   -   By Stevan Ril...
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's intellectual extravaganza

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)   -   By S...
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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 10 years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He regularly contributes to The Hindu and The Sunday Guardian. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to publications like DailyO, Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He regularly appears as a guest panelist on the various television channels and is also associated with radio.

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 at @MurtazaCritic.

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