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Best Screen Performances: Part I

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All time best screen portrayals in cinema A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature It’s been more than 5 years since I made tryst with cinema...

Get Carter (1971): British filmmaker Mike Hodges styllish crime thriller starring Michael Caine

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The trendsetter for the gangster films of '70s & '80s A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Cr...

Magic (1978): English filmmaker Richard Attenborough's psychological thriller featuring a tour de force from Anthony Hopkins

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A masterwork of psychological horror and suspense A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

The Damned (1969): Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's haunting saga of moral and cultural decadence

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A haunting portrayal of the Holocaust madness A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Th...

Best Films of Orson Welles

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O ver the last hundred years or so the world of cinema has been illuminated by a myriad of visionary artists who revolutioni...

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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 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 at @MurtazaCritic.

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