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Tag Archives: Taiwanese cinema

14 Minutes of Tsai Ming Liang and the Collision with the Spectacles

Taiwanese film-maker Tsai Ming Liang’s latest film Stray Dogs which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 70^th Venice International Film Festival is similar to many of his earlier ones with respect...

Critique

In Search of New Genres and Directions for Asian Cinema

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.

Soumyadeep Chakrabarti on Salil Sangeet: How Salil Chowdhury’s Bengali Songs Reimagined Genre, Social Awareness and Humanism
Thanks so much Rudradeep for your patient reading and insightful comments. In fact I could catalogue only a few gems from his vast repertoire Wish ...
Rudradeep Chakrabarti on Salil Sangeet: How Salil Chowdhury’s Bengali Songs Reimagined Genre, Social Awareness and Humanism
Brilliant ! After listening carefully several times a live discourse of Kabir Suman on Phenomenal music director, song writer , lyricist , writer , po...
N S RAJAN on Khuda Nigehban Ho Tumhara: An Unforgettable Farewell
It is my sincere belief that 'Lovers' of Music generally, and Hindi film songs in particular, are slightly mad. We are not satisfied merely by the so...
Shirish Waghmode on Khuda Nigehban Ho Tumhara: An Unforgettable Farewell
I am overwhelmed by your musical Pat -on -the back!I have always admired your understanding and analysis of Music and am only trying to follow in your...
N S RAJAN on Khuda Nigehban Ho Tumhara: An Unforgettable Farewell
A brilliant discourse on a few songs from 'Mughal e Azam', that spotlights some aspects about these songs that deserved attention. Apart from the lyri...