Ranjan this weekend recommends Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round
When a group of schoolteachers, bogged down by mid-life crisis and weariness discovers that a steady 0.05 percent alcohol level in their...
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Feb 23, 20217 min read
Melody in film: The Hindi film song as a cultural product (Part III)- by Roshni Sengupta
(First published in Café Dissensus Everyday, June 2016 https://cafedissensusblog.com/2016/06/11/melody-in-film-the-hindi-film-song-as-a-c...
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Feb 21, 20213 min read
Resnais shatters time in Hiroshima Mon Amour
by Sharad Raj FILM: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (HIROSHIMA, MY LOVE) LANGUAGE: FRENCH, JAPANESE, AND ENGLISH YEAR: 1959 The brilliance of any art...
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Feb 20, 20215 min read
Melody in film: the Hindi film song as a cultural product – Part II
by Roshni Sengupta (First published in Café Dissensus Everyday, June 2016 https://cafedissensusblog.com/2016/06/10/melody-in-film-the-hin...
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Feb 19, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends: DOOB - NO BED OF ROSES (2017, Bangladesh) by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
When you have been seeing Irrfan Khan’s name in a Bangladeshi film for the last few years which he also co-produced, you become curious....
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Feb 19, 20215 min read
Melody in film: the Hindi film song as a cultural product – Part I by Roshni Sengupta
(First published in Café Dissensus Every day, June 2016 https://cafedissensusblog.com/2016/06/09/melody-in-film-the-hindi-film-song-as-a-...
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Feb 14, 20219 min read
Robert Bresson’s ‘Cinematography’: The opening scene of ‘A Man Escaped’ by Monish K. Das
“The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with shoulders! How many useless and encumbering words then disappear. What...
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Feb 14, 20213 min read
The Enigma of Kaspar/ Werner!!! by Sharad Raj
LANGUAGE: GERMAN YEAR: 1974 The new wave German cinema with its mighty generals like Wim Winders and Reiner Werner Fassbinder had a...
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Feb 13, 20211 min read
Ranjan Recommends this week Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish language film EVERYBODY KNOWS (2018) explores the same template as in his previous films: a sudden crisis in a...
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Feb 7, 20213 min read
Juleja et Jima: in Truffaut's birthday week Sharad Raj revisits his masterpiece
YEAR: 1962 LANGUAGE: FRENCH The great film theorist Andre Bazin offered a delinquent teenager patronage at the age of eighteen. The boy...
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Feb 6, 20211 min read
This week Ranjan recommends Q's Brahman Naman!
Ace quizzers from a Bangalore college compete with quizzers from other cities in national competitions, and you are impressed by the...
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Feb 4, 20219 min read
Isabelle Huppert-exploring the darker side, writes Vandana Kumar
It couldn’t be a mere coincidence, I thought to myself, after watching a couple of Isabelle Huppert’s films, as in all of these films she...
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Jan 31, 20214 min read
Mise en scene of satire: Sharad Raj celebrates Jacques Tati's Mon Uncle
FILM: MON UNCLE YEAR: 1958 LANGUAGE: FRENCH When cinephiles, critics and the world audience look up at French cinema with awe they cover...
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Jan 29, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends Andrej Wajda's last film: After Image this week
When a popular avant-garde artist’s work is suddenly perceived as being variant with the dominant ideology, the state mercilessly clamps...
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Jan 24, 20214 min read
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul is Fassbinder's masterpiece writes Sharad Raj
FILM: ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL YEAR: 1974 LANGUAGE: GERMAN DIRECTOR: REINER WERNER FASSBINDER Long before Angela Merkel became a messiah...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
Road to love: Ranjan recommends Ishq this week
Out on a date at night in a borrowed car, a young couple in Kochi is mercilessly harassed for several hours by two men who claim to be...
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Jan 16, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends this week Hossein Amini's weekend entertainer: The Two Faces of January
When you see names like Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst in a film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, there are slim...
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Jan 14, 20216 min read
A "Manhattan" State of Mind: writes Vandana Kumar
Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’ is a 1979 American romantic comedy film produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and...
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Jan 12, 20214 min read
They are a Bunch of Goodfellas!
Goodfellas is considered to be one of the greatest gangster film ever. Ace filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, puts his own Sicilian-American...
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Jan 9, 20211 min read
I.D: Identity & its crises
A young woman from Sikkim, and a daily wage earner who works as a house painter – two migrants in search of livelihood in the City of...
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