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The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival: A Synopsis

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Berlinale 2013: List of contenders and winners A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festi...

Duck, You Sucker! (1971): Italian maestro Sergio Leone's treatise on greed, cowardice, heroism and friendship

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A tongue-in-cheek satire on Revolutions A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Duck,...

Hannibal (2001): English filmmaker Ridley Scott's psychological thriller with a strong intellectual appeal

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A masterwork richer than The Silence of the Lambs A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

The Master (2012): American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's hypnotic masterpiece

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A profound character-study high on drama A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

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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 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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