June 2013 - A Potpourri of Vestiges

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Indie Watch: Dark Arc Trailer

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Dan Zukovic's Strange and Surreal Modern Noir A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature It's always a matter of great excitement and pl...

Man of Steel (2013): First Installment in American filmmaker Zack Snyder's "Superman" reboot

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Zack Snyder's Sci-Fi spectacle starring Henry Cavill as Superman A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured i...

Dead Man (1995): American Indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's Revisionist Western starring Johnny Depp

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A psychedelic Western that deals with existentialism and spirituality A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Feature...

Three Colors: White (1994) - Second installment in Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy on the contemporary French society

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Kieslowski's treatise on equality, heavy on symbolism and humor A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in ...

Jalsaghar (1958): Indian maestro Satyajit Ray's Bangla film starring Chhabi Biswas

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A profoundly evocative film that pays homage to classical Indian art forms A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured...

Indie Watch: Teacher's Day 1st Teaser

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A new horror-comedy by Frolic Pictures A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature It's always a matter of great excitement and pleasure for &...

This Must Be the Place (2011): Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's poignant character study

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Sean Penn's haunting portrayal makes the film truly unforgettable A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb...

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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.