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CINEMA TOP 20: Our List of Most Powerful Movies from the World of Cinema

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Gangs of Wasseypur (2012): Part - I of Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s Epic Crime Saga

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Gangs of Wasseypur (2012 ) - By Anu...

Paths of Glory (1957): American Auteur Stanley Kubrick’s Anti-War Masterpiece

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Kubrick's epic WW1 film featuring a tour de force from Kirk Douglas A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Feat...

Harakiri (1962): Japanese auteur Masaki Kobayashi's treatise on the Samurai way of life and the associated atrocities

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Kobayashi's chanbara masterpiece featuring a tour de force from Tatsuya Nakadai A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Fe...

The Seventh Seal (1957): Legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s existential masterpiece that depicts the epic battle of life and death

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Bergman's treatise on life, death, and redemption A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Revie...

Stalker (1979): Russian maestro Andrei Tarkovsky’s cinematic masterpiece that deals with existentialism, spirituality and self-confrontation

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Stalker (1979) - By Andrei Tarkovsky ...

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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 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 @apotofvestiges.