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Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen's ode to the city of love, and its most celebrated denizens of the past

Murtaza Ali Khan 2:11:00 AM 6 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali   Featured in IMDb Critic  Reviews   Midnight in Paris (2011)   -  By Woody All...
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Mumbai Diaries (2010): Kiran Rao's Treat for the Eclectic Viewers

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A Potpourri of Vestiges  Review   By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb  Critic  Reviews   M umbai Diaries (Dhobi Ghat) is a 2010 moti...
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Seven Samurai (1954): Akira Kurosawa's Epic Masterpiece

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic  Reviews   S even Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) is a...
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The Hindu: My five

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Dear Readers, The following is an excerpt from my article that was published in the Indian National Daily, The Hindu. The article...
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Viridiana (1961): Luis Bunuel's Case Study on Bourgeoisie Plight and its Underlining Causes

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A lampoon on organized religion and associated hypocrisies A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic ...
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick's Psychedelic Masterpiece starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

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Kubrick's treatise on fidelity and marriage A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Re...
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Yojimbo (1961): Akira Kurosawa's Feast for the Action lovers

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Toshirô Mifune  shines in the epic role of a crafty ronin named Sanjuro A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IM...
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Rashomon (1950): Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's treatise on the subjectivity of truth

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An Akira Kurosawa Japanese film that propounded the Rashomon Effect  A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb ...
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Scarface (1983): Brian De Palma's Unforgiving Portrayal of American Drug Mafia of the 1980s

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Al Pacino delivers a tour de force starring as Tony Montana A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic   ...
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The Maltese Falcon (1941): John Huston's Noir masterpiece featuring a tour de force from Humphrey Bogart

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Huston debut film that marked Bogart's tryst with super-stardom  A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb C...
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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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