Retro Reel by Sreepathy, Volume 7
Retro Reel is a column about movies — but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense of a retrospective.
Note: this installment survives only as an archive fragment of the original 2012 column; the full text is no longer available.
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