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Synecdoche, New York (2008) - Charlie Kaufman
Do not enter this film knowing that you know. But you can exit knowing that what you know is never known. Synecdoche, New York is a film...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read


Good Morning (1959) - Yasujiro Ozu
Cinema is good because cinema is true. What Good Morning does is it transcends a structure into a realm comprising of all too familiar...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read


Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
An idiosyncratic and amusing film about the enigma that is love, Annie Hall is a revelation. It sort of feels like a fast-paced film - in...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read


Whiplash (2014) - Damien Chazelle
Whiplash is a powerful movie. Period. It’s the eye of the storm and the destruction that it causes. It’s the unmaking of a character and...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read


Adaptation. (2002) - Spike Jonze
You move through a movie and its landscapes as if you’re led to an unknown place in the dark. Meanwhile, all your senses are heightened...
Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 17, 20222 min read


A Woman Is A Woman (1961) - Jean-Luc Godard
The setting of a film as vivid, euphoric, and amusing as A Woman Is A Woman transcends normalcy. It’s not your “everyday” kind of film....
Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 17, 20221 min read


Shame (2011) - Steve McQueen
It’s difficult to view movies of such nature with open-minded curiosity. But somehow, the individuality and ruggedness of Michael...
Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 17, 20221 min read


A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence is more aggressively real than it is imagined. It’s a story of a woman, Mabel, benumbed by mental illness and...
Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 4, 20212 min read


Uzak / Distant (2002) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
This is a film about the loneliness of possessing a self. About existing in the midst of the length and breadth of life that nature...
Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 26, 20212 min read


Why I Read?
#1: Finding Your Introvert #2: Why I Read? #3: Film Recommendation #1: Finding Your Introvert Written by Ayesha Suppose introversion was...
Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 31, 20202 min read
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