A Potpourri of Vestiges

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s psychological western

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Best Films of Sergio Leone

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I talian filmmaker Sergio Leone, an undisputed master of style in the world of cinema, is widely revered as one of the greate...

Best Films of Stanley Kubrick

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A merican filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, in my personal opinion, was Anglo-American Cinema's most potent reply to the 'Fellin...

Nosferatu (1922): German Filmmaker F. W. Murnau's Epic Tale of Endless Horror

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Best Films of Federico Fellini

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I talian maestro Federico Fellini is widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century. In a career s...

Gangs of Wasseypur II (2012): Part - II of Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s epic crime saga based on Indian Coal Mafia

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Best Films of Andrei Tarkovsky

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A ndrei Tarkovsky—inarguably the greatest auteur to have emerged from Russia since Sergei Eisenstein—is often touted in film circ...

Best Films of Ingmar Bergman

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S wedish virtuoso Ernst Ingmar Bergman is widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century. Bergman sh...

Best Films of Akira Kurosawa

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J apanese auteur Akira Kurosawa is widely regarded as one of the greatest moviemakers of all time. Kurosawa undoubtedly played a pivo...

Best Films of Luis Buñuel

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S panish maestro Luis Buñuel is widely regarded as the father of Surrealism in the world of cinema. Surrealism, an avant-garde movem...

A Potpourri of Vestiges: A Proud Beneficiary of the Liebster Award

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A Potpourri of Vestiges is a proud beneficiary of the prestigious Liebster Award. Well, the literal meaning of “Liebster” is love, and I ...

About Author

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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