There are not many films that urge the audience to get involved and direct the course of the film. The audience is made into puppets whose emotions are controlled by the strings attached to the director’s whims. Koyaanisqatsi takes the meaning of independent viewing to a whole new level, with the film achieving form as decided by the viewers. Hence the film becomes a unique experience for each viewer and differing largely from others’. Koyaanisqatsi is a non-narrative film whose USP remains…

Growing old aren’t we? But we believe we’re aging like wine! It’s been close to seven months (29 February to be more precise) since we conceived the vision (although the site started towards the end of April), with the fine vision of bringing in all aspects of culture under one universal platform. And we’ve surely come a long way since then. From structuring plans, to collecting resources, to building on those dreams, and sweating it out to bigger steps, we look at Culturazzi proudly today and see it as a sweet, precocious child worthy of every bit that we put into it…

Caroline Link’s Nowhere in Africa is a journey of hearts as they first struggle to get over their homes, and later, fall in love with their adopted home - an alien country of semi-clad men and women, mystifying customs, different languages and personal conflicts…A country that they seek refuge in, driven away from their home land to hold on their most valuable possessions – their lives. A vicarious experience for someone like me, who practically got transported to a land called Africa, and into the minds of three characters struggling…

For hot blooded youth, lack of a sense of identity and respect stokes the dormant fire raging within, leading to an explosion that reverberates for years before it dies down. And before it does, it consumes thousand others in internecine conflicts of revenge, hatred and isolation. Places like West Bank (Israel-Palestine), and Kashmir are breeding grounds for such disgruntled youth, who, disillusioned by the bloody conflicts and lured by the promise of heaven and redemption, seek glory and respect in martyrdom. Said and Khaled are two such disgruntled youth …

Since the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the search has been on for the heir to the throne he left behind. Many believed that his fellow countryman Alexander Sokurov would be the chosen one. Indeed, his films like Mother and Son (1997) and Russian Ark (2002), that disregarded montage in the same way as the Russian master, strike an immediate chord with viewers familiar with Tarkovsky’s works. But in a country a bit west to Russia, a Hungarian visionary called Béla Tarr had showed the world he had arrived, big time.

Wouldn’t we feel elated to know that all those dreamy knights and heavenly princesses, eternal lovers and magical soul mates were true and alive? That a life of love filled with adventure, pureness, and celebration can still be found? The Bridge across Forever is that flash of hope for those fierce romantics who’d always want to believe that there is such a thing as perfection in life and love, for those who trust that the capacity for divine joy and completeness in love can be found. Famed writer Richard Bach’s true life is one such beautiful autobiographical..

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films often deal with the themes of fate, coincidences and choices. The phenomenal Decalogue teased us with the possibilities of seemingly disparate lives being connected. Equally staggering Three Colours trilogy completed a full circle and testified Kieslowski’s theory. But almost a decade before the trilogy, Kieslowski had made Przypadek that had already embraced the possibility of plasticity of fate and existence of truly free will. Though seldom listed in the list of great foreign films, Blind Chance deserves…

Pulp Fiction is the epitome of wild, wacky and quirky filmmaking. It is outrageously violent – it made a complete mockery of blood and killing; uncontrollably profane – the movie perhaps has more F-words than any other movie in the entire history of cinema; profusely wicked – the movie made fun of nearly every sensitive and so-called sanctimonious issues ranging from religion to race to even homosexuality, and unabashedly bizarre. And despite all its twisted sense of humour and idiosyncrasies that can best be described…

Andrei Tarkovsky’s whole new percept of cinema helped discovering newer boundaries to the medium and aided the formation of some of the greatest directors of the future. Though Andrei Tarkovsky’s canon consisted of only seven features, three student films, one documentary and a couple of stage plays and there were more unrealized projects than filmed ones, each of the ideas that were completed were gems and remain unparalleled to dateLooking back, each one seems hand picked and “sculpted” second…

Anjali Purohit is a reclusive artist working from Mumbai (Bombay) who has been articulating her sensibility with paper, paint and canvas. She has studied at the Sir J J School of Art. She held her first solo show in Bombay in 1995 and has been exhibiting her work since in the city as well as outside. She believes that art, like language or music, is a medium of communication whereby the artist attempts to express her reaction to the world - nature, people, events, emotions, memories and situations. Something in each of these experiences strikes the artist as significant, poignant, moving, curious or in some way worthy of note or observation