Breathless (French: A Bout de Souffle), directed by Jean Luc Godard in 1960 is one of the most important films of the French New Wave. The script is written by Godard and François Truffaut, who was another significant auteur of the era. The film is entirely shot with a hand-held camera. This was Godard’s first…
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FILM REVIEW: Onibaba [Demon Woman] 1964 directed by Kaneto Shindo.
Onibaba (meaning Demon Woman) is a Japanese horror film set in a war-torn 14th century Japan. The story of the film tells the tale of three people: an old woman (Nabuko Otowa), her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura), and friend of the old woman’s son (Kei Sato), who has escaped from war and come back to the…
Film Review: THE RULES OF THE GAME (La Règle du jeu -1939) by Jean Renoir
“Love as it exists in society is merely the mingling of two whims and the contact of two skins.” This quote from Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game successfully sums up what the film wants to say and the stand that it takes against the French upper-class society of the late 1930s.This film,…
The proclamation of sexual sovereignty of the ‘ideal’ woman in Hindi Cinema, seen through specific song and dance sequences.
This essay explores and reflects on the change in the viewing and depiction of the ‘ideal’ woman in Hindi cinema from the demure in 1950’s to the brave and sexually liberated by the 1980’s as seen through the song and dance sequences of Hindi films, in particular,“Awara” (1951), “Guide” (1965), and “Ram Teri Ganga Maili”…