Jasmim Talks Cinema

Jasmim's Choice 2011: Best Film: Winner: Weekend A Separation Bullhead Drive Hugo In Darkness Melancholia Midnight in Paris Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Pariah Shame Take This Waltz The Artist The Descendants The Skin I Live In The Tree of Life The Turin Horse We Have a Pope We Need to Talk About Kevin Where Do We Go Now? Best Director: Winners: Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive; Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life Asghar Farhadi, A Separation Martin Scorsese, Hugo Lars Von Trier, Melancholia Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Dee Rees, Pariah Steve McQueen, Shame Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alexander Payne, The Descendants Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, The Turin Horse Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin Andrew Haigh, Weekend Best Actor: Winner: Michael Fassbender, Shame Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead Christoph Waltz, Carna...

First Reformed - The Existential Crisis of the Modern World Can God forgive us for what we've done to this world?  Our world is dying. Once luscious landscapes are now dantesque nightmares. Is there anything that can be done? How do we stop the machine of greed that is causing this disaster? Is the machine too powerful? What can we do? Is doing anything worth it? Are we in time to prevent the death of our species and most of the others? Right now, we live in what is probably the greatest and worst crisis in the history of humanity, and this crisis is purely man-made - they are a product of the greed of the powerful and wealthy. who care more about the money in their offshore accounts than the health of our planet and its inhabitants. This crisis isn't merely environmental - it's political, moral, and, above all, existential. First Reformed is an urgent wake-up call for all of us. In it, we follow Reverend Ernst Toller, a priest in a small chapel in upstate New York, ...

Love, Simon - The film I was in need of    This is scary. I have never written explicitly about my sexual orientation in here. But I think this is the perfect time for it. It's scary because I'm exposing myself in a way I'm not used to, and that's something that can be dangerous. But what this film has taught me is that I shouldn't be scared. This film was so important to me because it spoke to me in such a deep and personal level. It explored so many issues that I faced and am facing and showed me that I am not alone in this world. I had seen some "gay movies" (I'm using this label, but I don't like using it because I don't think films should be labeled for the sexual orientation of their main characters) before, and each one of them taught me a lot. From Weekend to Moonlight to Call Me By Your Name . But this one helped me further because Love, Simon  tells the story of a gay teenager who is faced with that thing that all LGBTQ people ...

Jasmim's Choice 2012: Best Film:  Winner: Frances Ha A Royal Affair Amour Beyond the Hills Django Unchained Ernest & Célestine Holy Motors Keep the Lights On Laurence Anyways Moonrise Kingdom Neighboring Sounds No Out in the Dark Post Tenebras Lux Rust and Bone Tabu The Act of Killing The Broken Circle Breakdown The Hunt The Master Best Director: Winner: Michael Haneke, Amour Cristian Mungiu, Beyond the Hills Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained Leos Carax, Holy Motors Ira Sachs, Keep the Lights On Xavier Dolan, Laurence Anyways Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom Kleber Mendonça Filho, Neighboring Sounds Pablo Larraín, No Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux Jacques Audiard, Rust and Bone Miguel Gomes, Tabu Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn, The Act of Killing Thomas Vinterberg, The Hunt Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master Best Actor: Winner: Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, A Royal Affair ...

La La Land - Here's to the ones who dream  Big dreams. Big ambitions. Love and passion. Who makes the world spin around? How do we realize our dreams? This is what La La Land  is about. Damien Chazelle tells us the story of an aspiring actress and an ambitious jazz pianist who cross passes and fall for each other. This is a story about dreams. It's magical and escapist, yet overwhelmingly realistic.  Chazelle doesn't shy away from showing us the pains and sacrifices we must go through in order to make our dreams come true. We are immersed in the alluring city of Los Angeles, a city that is like a deceiving siren, in one of the most beautiful musicals of all time (and, I even dare to say, one of the best in the history of cinema), as we follow the lives of these two people with big ambitions and the conflict between their love and dreams. La La Land  will inspire you, dazzle you and make you fall in love. This is a film for dreamers.  We are introduce...

Jasmim's Choice 2013: Best Film: Winner: Blue is the Warmest Colour Before Midnight Enemy Free Fall Gloria Her Ida Inside Llewyn Davis Like Father, Like Son Locke Only God Forgives Only Lovers Left Alive Prisoners Stoker Stranger by the Lake The Great Beauty The Past The Wolf of Wall Street Under the Skin  12 Years a Slave Best Director: Winner: Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue is the Warmest Colour Richard Linklater, Before Midnight Denis Villeneuve, Enemy Alfonso Cuáron, Gravity Spike Jonze, Her Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis Hirokazu Kore-eda, Like Father, Like Son Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive Gia Coppola, Palo Alto Park Chan-Wook, Stoker Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake Wong Kar-Wai, The Grandmaster Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty Asghar Farhadi, The Past Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street Jonathan Glazer, Under the Sk...