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Volume 9

Michael Chekhov, a great Russian actor, teacher, director, seemed to have an interesting approach to these challenges and emphasized the art in acting.

Chinese Cinema: Then and After
Chinese Cinema: Then and After
The phenomenal burgeoning of Chinese Cinema...
Theo Angelopoulos And Greece
Theo Angelopoulos And Greece
Theo Angelopoulos ushers in his films...
What Is Acting
What Is Acting
Michael Chekhov, a great Russian...
Films in Transition, Generations in Flux: China on the Move
Films in Transition, Generations in Flux: China on the Move
Chinese films have a long history. The...
Alex looking straight at the camera with the eyeballs slightly above centre
(Pic: Amazon)
The Need For A Visual Syntax
The quest to create strong, powerful and...
The most successful adaptation of a Tagore story outside Bengal was of course, Hemen Gupta’s Kabuliwala, produced by Bimal Roy, starring the veteran actor Balraj Sahni.
From Kolkata to Dublin via Kabul: Tagore’s Internationalism And Cinema
At a symposium organised to mark the 150th birth year of Rabindranath Tagore in Dublin last month, the organising team – a small group of five academics with an interest...
Charulata: The Lonely Wife
Editorial of Special issue on Rabindranath Tagore
2011 ended well for Silhouette! We had moved to the online version at the start of the second quarter of the calendar year. So this is the third issue of Vol IX. As promised,...
Masculin, féminin
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya
Director: Jean-Luc Godard 
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Space Sound Color: Giving Life To An Art Film
Since its nascent beginnings, the so-called art film...
Sare Chuattar
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen
Director: Nirmal Dey
Co-Existence Of Parallel Cinema With Popular Cinema In Bengal In The 50s And 60s
Ever since the emergence of regional cinema in India, Bengal and it’s films and film makers have played a dominant role in the shaping of cinematic history of the country....
In late 60's when feminism was taking shape in Bengal, with this contextually primed, well-built story the director was already one step ahead.
On Streer Patra
Standing on a lonesome, vast seashore...
New York: Capturing The Essence
New York: Capturing The Essence
New York is much more than a studio...
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Absurdist Themes In The Virgin Spring
The theme of Ingmar Bergman's...
Bollywood And The Diaspora: Namastey London
Bollywood And The Diaspora: Namastey London
Namastey London offers intriguing...
Editorial of Volume 9 – First Online version
Editorial of Volume 9 – First Online version
2011 started good for Silhouette! We had dilly-dallied for some time with the web option of our magazine – whether to continue with a sluggish and expensive medium or not...