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Andrei Rublev (1966): Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky’s treatise on creative freedom and spirituality

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Andrei Rublev (1966) - Original Ti...

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): American Film-Maker Jonathan Demme's Case Study on Human Psychology

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - By Jo...

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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.