In the guise of a thriller NIGHT MOVES (US, 2013) depicts the efforts of three young radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota...

Quite strangely, while watching FAIR PLAY (US, 2023) by debutant Chole Domont, I was reminded of Satyajit Ray’s MAHANAGAR (1963). In the...

Mita Vashisht in Siddheshwari(1989). Mani Kaul’s Siddheshwari (1989) eschews the linear narrative and the quest for static truth. Instead...

In today’s world when the monster of ‘market’ has taken over cinematography with the overriding behemoth of the so-called ‘content’, the...

What seems like a desolate industrial town serves as the setting for this atmospheric film peopled with drug addicts, drug dealers,...

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Just Let It Go, Friends) is a 1983 black comedy directed by Kundan Shah and produced by the NFDC. It is a satire on...

Image: Jahar Ray in ‘Ranger Golam' ‘Ranger Golam’ (The Knave of the Trump, 1968) was yet another incomplete feature film left behind by...

Mamta Shanker & Mithun Chakraborty in Mrinal Sen’s (1976). Do you know a Hindi actor who received a National Award for his debut film?...

A taut noir at 1.10-hour, HIGHWAY DRAGNET (1954) by Nathan Juran follows the travails of Richard Conte, a WW2 veteran who is on the run...

Anita Kanwar in Mani Kaul's Mati Manas In 1984, the Handicraft Development Commission of India commissioned Mani Kaul to make a film...

Image: Sudharani Sharma in ‘Rendezvous’, screenshot by AG. The twenty-first edition of my Ritwik Robibarer Close-up Katha celebrates...

Khayal Gatha (The Saga of Khayal) is a 1989 Indian experimental film written and directed by Kumar Shahani. The film traces the history...

Image: Indrani Mukhopadhyay in Ritwik Ghatak’s partially restored film ‘Bagalar Banga Darshan’ (1964), a still, courtesy: Ritwik Memorial...

In BLIND CHANCE (Poland, 1987), Krzysztof Kieslowski’s biting criticism of Communist Poland did not go down well with the authorities; so...

Image: A close-up of one of Chittaprosad’s pen and ink sketches in Ritwik Ghatak’s short film ‘Durbargati Padma’ (1971). Chittaprosad was...

We knew about the North Indians’ obsession with Mumbai or the Punjabis’ fixation on Canada but weren’t aware of the fascination the city...

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (A Pending Decision) is a 1986 Hindi language courtroom drama directed by Basu Chatterji. It is a remake of the Golden...

American actor Jean Seberg and Jean-Luc Godard in 1960 in Paris. In the world of cinema, there are few names as iconic and revolutionary...

Unlike the Holocaust and other disturbing moments in history, the Armenian genocide under Ottoman rule during the First World War has...

Image: Deepa has returned with her new-born baby Megha and her careerist husband, to Kolkata. It is ‘window’ that becomes the ‘pakad’ for...