Pick of the Week: Nightcrawler
A gritty, tantalising film, this Jake Gyllenhaal starring Academy Award nominee is a searing indictment of the media industry and its...
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- Jul 21, 2020
Feature: Lights. Camera. Lockdown.
How do you make a film during a lockdown where there is a pandemic raging around you and the world has come to a grinding halt? We spoke...
- Jul 19, 2020
Pick of the Week: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) has a surprisingly calm quality for a Wuxia film. It...
- Jul 12, 2020
Pick of the Week: Family Romance LLC
Romance is a business. Family, friends, followers. All available for hire. A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a twelve...
- Jun 28, 2020
Pick of the Week: A Secret Love
A personal, heart warming documentary film about a same sex couple coming out to their immediate family and the world after 60 years of a...
- Jun 21, 2020
Pick of the Week: Axone
A rare and important film that peels off layer by layer the inherent racism stewing in Indian society. Before we go about debating Indian...
- Jun 14, 2020
Pick of the Week: Chintu Ka Birthday
Hands-down a writer’s film, Chintu Ka Birthday is replete with details that take you back into the exuberance of childhood. The film, a...
- Jun 7, 2020
Pick of the Week: Choked
Anurag Kashyap's latest film Choked is a whimsical satire about demonetisation, the first film to be made about the subject. Replete with...
- Jun 4, 2020
Dispatch: We Are One Global Film Festival
Team Lost The Plot's experience participating in the historic We Are One Global Film Festival - a free 10-day online festival, born out...
- May 31, 2020
Pick of the Week: Hannah Gadsby - Douglas
Human in its critique and poignantly hilarious, Emmy and Peabody award winning comedian Hannah Gadsby's latest Netflix special, Douglas...
- May 17, 2020
Pick of the Week: Paatal Lok
Produced by Anushka Sharma's Clean Slate Films for Amazon Prime, Paatal Lok tells the story of a cynical inspector tasked with...
- May 10, 2020
Pick of the Week: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 murder drama that is more about accountability than revenge. It tells the story of a...
- Apr 26, 2020
Pick of the Week: Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent's dazzling visual achievements make this Van Gogh biopic well worth seeking out - even if its narrative is far less...
- Apr 19, 2020
Pick of the Week: Tangerine
Sean Baker's Tangerine stunned audiences at Sundance, shattered casting conventions and its filmmaking techniques are up-to-the-minute....
- Apr 13, 2020
Pick of the Week: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
French filmmaker Celine Sciamma's scintillating romance drama tells the story of Marianne, a painter, and Heloise, whose wedding portrait...
- Apr 12, 2020
Feature: Cinema In The Times of Pandemic
From the confines of our living rooms, amidst the uncertainty spawned by the novel COVID-19 outbreak across the world, Lost The Plot...
- Apr 6, 2020
Pick of the Week: Tiger King
A bizarre true crime story you have to see to believe, Netflix's Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem & Madness is a messy and captivating portrait...
- Mar 29, 2020
Pick of the Week: Mouna Ragam
Mani Ratnam’s breakthrough film Mouna Ragam (1986) tells the story of feisty young Divya, who is secretly mourning the death of her...
- Mar 25, 2020
Feature: Alternate Indian Cinema - Art for Art's Sake
For decades, alternate Indian cinema has provided much needed respite for cinephiles with its focus on style and substance which reject...
- Mar 22, 2020
Pick Of The Week: Bacurau
Thrilling, narratively daring and ambitious in scope Bacurau draws on modern Brazilian sociopolitical concerns to deliver a hard-hitting,...
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