Forrest Gump As My Spiritual Guru
The lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...
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- Jun 6, 2019
- 6 min
Black Mirror Season 5: Human All Too Human
Black Mirror’s fifth season was released on Netflix yesterday, with three episodes, to a widely anticipating global audience. The new...
- Oct 11, 2018
- 12 min
Review: Siddheshwari, and the Fictional Documentary
“I’ve given up representation, and taken up fragmentation.” Robert Bresson’s film theory can be paraphrased to divide film into two types...
- Oct 11, 2018
- 8 min
Cinematic Language and Themes in Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’
The movie ‘Her’ was subtitled as ‘A Spike Jonze Love Story’ across all promotions at the time of its release. Watching the movie, it...
- Mar 10, 2018
- 5 min
The Dude Still Abides | Swagat Baruah
The Big Lebowski turned 20 on March 6, 2018. But ‘The Dude’ still abides today, and the film still stands out as one of the best...
- Jul 24, 2017
- 13 min
The Exquisite Art Of Listening | Dipankar Sarkar
Dipankar Sarkar Image and Sound, like a stranger who make acquaintance on a journey and afterward cannot separate....
- Jul 23, 2017
- 10 min
Trajectory of Endurance: The Cinema of Steve McQueen|Dipankar Sarkar
In a span of six years, British filmmaker Steve McQueen has made three films whose cinematic grammar equates with a style that primarily...
- Mar 28, 2017
- 6 min
The Portrayal Of Women in Mikio Naruse’s films | Tasnim Nazifa & Arghya Dey
Tasnim Nazifa & Arghya Dey When it comes to Japanese filmmakers, very few people are aware of Mikio Naruse and his incredible...
- Mar 23, 2017
- 4 min
Review: Hannah & Her Sisters | Gaurav Haloi
Gaurav Haloi Hannah and Her Sisters might just be the funniest family film ever made. Every character is so aware of his/her flaws,...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 7 min
POST-WAR JAPAN: The films of Shindo, Kurosawa and Honda| Arghya Dey & Tasnim Nazifa
Arghya Dey & Tasnim Nazifa Children of Hiroshima (1952) Kaneto Shindo’s docu-fiction Children of Hiroshima has a strong anti-war message...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 4 min
Mon Jai: A Retrospective| Sandipan Goswami
Sandipan Goswami Every year India produces more number of films than any other country in the world. In the year 2016, 1903 feature films...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 5 min
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!| Arun Philip
Arun Philip The title of this article is a catch-phrase from the adultswim show “Rick and Morty”. It means: “I’m in great pain. Please...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 3 min
Why Cinema: Fan-a-vision|Akshara Bharadwaj
Akshara Bharadwaj Some of my fondest childhood memories involve going out for movies. The auto ride on a Sunday morning to a single...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 7 min
On memory and metaphors in Remembering Kurdi|Gaurav Haloi
Gaurav Haloi Saumyananda Sahi’s documentary Remembering Kurdi begins with an intertitle: hiraeth (n.) a homesickness for a home to which...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
Jan Švankmajer’s ‘The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia’ and the art of Surrealist Satire|Shantanu Singh
Shantanu Singh In 1989, the Velvet Revolution ended the one-party reign of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. It also lead to the...
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