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Festival de Cannes 2013: Award Winners

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List of Winners at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival A Potpourri of Vestiges Special

Do Movies Inspire Tourism?

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How Cinema Affects International Tourism A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Destination Infinity S witzerland is one of...

American History X (1998): English director Tony Kaye's debut film featuring a tour de force from Edward Norton

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A Treatise on Racism and Human Alienation A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Richa Singh Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

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Why Russell was a smarter captain than Bhuwan? A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Soumabha W hile most people love Aamir K...

Is Cinema the Reflection of Society?

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The Eternal Connect Between Cinema and Society A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Thewhitescape “Indian cinema has virtuall...

Broken Embraces (2009): Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's homage to filmmaking

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Almodóvar's ambitious film starring Penélope Cruz and Lluís Homar A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in...

10 Great Web Sources for Movie Buffs

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Ten film blogs/sites every cineaste must visit A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature In this post I will be talking about 10 amazing film bl...

A Vote of Thanks: A Potpourri of Vestiges hits the 400K counter

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“Mamaiji” (Grandmother): A Short Film By Oorvazi Irani

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Discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Oorvazi Irani “Mamaiji” (Grandmother): A ...

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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.