In “Fursat,” celebrated Indian director Vishal Bhardwaj has created an astonishing genre stew. This 30-minute movie includes virtual reality, time travel, dance, martial arts…and love. If you find the plot confusing, you can just enjoy the music, the dazzling locations, and the impressive camera work. Apple sponsored “Fursat” to show off the iPhone 14’s versatility,…
read more →The pandemic inspired scores of limited-location films. Of these, “But Then”—written and directed by Frank W. Kelly— has to be among the most limited. In this short, very emotional romance, the two protagonists sit back to back. While we get to observe their expressions, the man and the woman come to know each other only…
read more →The harm caused by the pandemic is incalculable. But if we look for a silver lining, we recognize that COVID has inspired many filmmakers to capture life during the lockdown. One of the major topics has been relationships. Can they be maintained via the cloud? No one suggests that online communication equals the real thing.…
read more →In 2019, Taiwanese director Liao Ming-Yi’s “Parking” won the Grand Prize in the FiLMiC Pro Mobile Film Festival. That 4-minute drama was about a doctor suffering from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Now Liao is back with “I Weirdo,” a feature-length love story about two people with OCD. According to Variety, this is “the first Asian fiction feature to…
read more →Alfred Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” argues that ‘Tis better to have loved and lost,/ Than never to have loved at all.” But there is another possibility. In their deeply moving love story “The Meeting,” Italian filmmakers Clara Congera & Sigfrido Giammona suggest that memory can make it possible for us to keep love alive. The…
read more →A few months ago we identified Blake Calhoun’s gritty thriller “Miranda” as one of the best mobile movies of 2018. Now the director is back with “First Dance,” a film that couldn’t be more different in terms of mood. That said, this short dance movie about a most unusual date, is as visually arresting as…
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