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Home / Archive for November 2012

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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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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