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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Chunhyang (2000) is a pre-modern folk tale in a post-modern structure that comes as a surprise to contemporary audiences.
Slumdog Millionaire as a film not only centers on the sets of a game show, but totally follows the ideology of it.
Why is it that the woman (female lead) in cinema is usually represented as a shadow of the man’s desire - existing only in response to the man’s desires?
In a just world, The Host would have been every bit the box-office event that Crouching Tiger was – and would instantly be perceived, at large, as vastly superior to the usual run of lacklustre Denzel Washington...
Bharati Devi had been, and still is the sole torchbearer of the most important historical era of Indian Cinema.
Langton’s Pride and Prejudice like Austen in her novel, depicts irony with ‘unmistakable strains of cynicism, laughing at human nature without any real hope of changing it’.
The quick paced usage of such stock monochromatic films seemed to allow Ghosh to situate Samaresh Mazumdar’s 1980’s novel Kalbela, cinematographed ( initially planned for the Doordarshan...
I believe, the joy derived from the strong sense of commitment is the main factor that binds the two apparently different persons together. Therefore, as I still go on repeatedly...
Film critics often divide Hou’s oeuvre into three phases that are characterized by different approaches to filmmaking.
This essay is only an attempt to look at Tykwer through the miniature lens of Perfume, interrupted by some thoughts on his co-ordinates as a director, relative to contemporary films and their directors.
In the play Othello stands alone, while in the Hindi film adaptation Omkara is given a full household. Instead of Venice, Omkara is set against the milieu of political and gangster warfare in the...
Korean gangster films of this period, however, often interweave within the narratives and their modes of representation, commentaries on the relations between...
The best part about Gulaal is of course the script, that it also lets you down in some parts especially towards the end is another matter and that is also mostly because your expectations...
Movies produced as the Second World War progressed were inclined more towards propaganda to boost the morale of the soldiers at the front and civilians suffering back home. These...
Metal Gear Solid 4 tells a truly planetary tale of the worldwide struggle against neoliberalism, and went so far as to forecast the real-life meltdown of neoliberalism with uncanny accuracy.
Raise the Red lantern film remains rooted in the everyday of a traditional family, and yet hints at state atrocities committed at Tiananmen Square.
Community Video is a unique and new initiative in India. These units provide a platform for the disadvantaged communities to voice.
One cannot but admire Hou Hsiao-hsien generosity to put himself on the firing line both as a fighter and a symbolic presence to lead the Taiwanese film industry out of its current stagnation.
This is not a traditional interview in the sense normally available. It is sort of a tête-à-tête with the legendary thespian. The conscious rationale was to ask minimally on...
The works of the Fifth Generation filmmakers in China are perhaps the most important in post-revolutionary film culture.
