Taste this "cherry" of a film by Abbas Kiarostami, writes Sharad Raj
NAME: TASTE OF CHERRY YEAR: 1997 LANGUAGE: PERSIAN “Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Kiarostami,” said Jean Luc Goddard of...
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Apr 9, 20211 min read
Another Turkish delight, Ranjan recommends for the weekend.
Written and directed by Durul Taylan and Yagmur Taylan, STUCK APART (2021) looks at Aziz, a middle-aged bachelor in Istanbul stuck in a...
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Apr 8, 20214 min read
Rafey Mahmood and the tale of two "mohallas": Ankhon Dekhi & Pagglait
After four months of abstinence from Netflix I finally surrendered to peer pressure and subscribed to its most basic plan. The OTT...
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Apr 7, 20214 min read
30 years of Ahmaq: Devdutt Trivedi revisits this Mani Kaul mini series
Mani Kaul’s long television series Ahmaq, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Idiot, was largely rejected by the critics and...
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Apr 7, 20217 min read
Mise en scene: beyond meaning and mechanics, a metaphysical expression. Sharad Raj ponders.
The dictionary definition of mise en scene is as follows: The arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical...
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Apr 4, 20213 min read
Annie & Allen
FILM: Annie Hall YEAR: 1977 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH “ I do not want to be part of any club that would have me as its member,” quotes Woody...
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Apr 3, 20211 min read
Visit this Turkish Toll Booth this weekend, recommends Ranjan Das
A slow-burn study of a toll booth attendant’s humdrum life takes on poetic dimensions in this extraordinary film from Turkey – TOLL BOOTH...
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Mar 28, 20214 min read
Andrzej Wajda's emotionally compelling masterpiece: Ashes and Diamonds
FILM: ASHES AND DIAMONDS YEAR; 1958 LANGUAGE: POLISH Ashes and Diamonds is one of the all-time masterpieces of Polish cinema, directed by...
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Mar 27, 20211 min read
Prof. Anil Zankar analyses Architectonics of Rashomon in this two-part articles.
http://www.fipresci-india.online/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/14.-Anil-Zankar-Architectonics-of-Rashomon-Part-1.pdf...
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Mar 27, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends Dev Bhoomi for the weekend
Victor Banerjee plays Rahul Negi who comes back to his village in Uttarakhand from London after 40 years to walk down memories lanes...
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Mar 21, 20214 min read
The discreet charm of Luis Bunuel
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE DIRECTOR: LUIS BUNUEL YEAR: 1972 COUNTRY: FRANCE/SPAIN Octavio Paz called his work marriage of the...
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Mar 20, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends Chinese film Dead Pigs for this weekend's feast!
DEAD PIGS (2018, China) by Cathy Yan A Shanghai pig farmer obsessed with virtual reality discovers that the pigs at his farm are dropping...
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Mar 13, 20214 min read
Fellini & Masina's Nights of Cabiria
FILM: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA YEAR: 1957 LANGUAGE: ITALIAN He is the man who made 8 ½. He is Federico Fellini. Much before that, the Italian...
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Mar 13, 20211 min read
This week Ranjan wants us to check out a Polanski film: Based on a True Story.
An exhausted Delphin faces writer’s block after tasting her first career success with her debut novel. Despite wanting to be left alone,...
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Mar 12, 20218 min read
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-Vandana Kumar takes a close look at Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7!
In Agnès Varda’s 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7 (French title Cléo de 5 à 7), a vain pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours of ...
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Mar 8, 20214 min read
SAHIR & I: A Journey From Romance To Revolution by Zaman Habib
It was the early 80s, I was writing my first love letter. To make it more striking and stirring or, for better words, impressively...
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Mar 7, 20217 min read
SAHIR- THE ENIGMATIC MAGICIAN by Shrikant Mahiarya
I got introduced to Sahir Ludhianvi through a book by Prakash Pandit. The book was a part of my elder brother’s collection in Kota. My...
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Mar 6, 20213 min read
Amitabh & I
As a 10-year old with Amitabh and my dad& sister at Natraj Studio, during the shooting of Sholay(1975) The year was 1975, when I was...
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Mar 6, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends: Stefan Ruzowitzky's, THE COUNTERFEITERS (2007, Austrian-German)
Based on a true account, THE COUNTERFEITERS (2007, Austrian-German) by Stefan Ruzowitzky deals with a top-secret mission of the Nazis to...
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Feb 28, 20213 min read
Ugetsu-a film by Kenji Mizoguchi
YEAR:1953 LANGUAGE: JAPANESE Theatrical trailer https://youtu.be/0dUwz9j4oGM “The fruit of experience is beauty,” the ravishing Lady...
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