The Syncopated Heart of Mumbai: From New Orleans to Bollywood – The Unsung Story of Jazz in India
Delve into India’s rich jazz history, tracing its arrival in the 1930s and the influential figures like Teddy Weatherford and…
Tag: Essays
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
The grand and majestic conclusion the Three Colours Trilogy, Red takes loosely connected lives and creates a masterful web of…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: White (Trois Couleurs: Blanc)
Considered an anti-comedy, and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s most straightforward and mainstream film, Three Colours: White, which deals with equality, is the…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
Three Colours: Blue is the first of last and finest of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s works, the Three Colours trilogy.…
Cinema and Eastern Culture/Identity in a Globalized World.
Such is the state of representation of eastern cultures, that while western world may admire typical aesthetics of these films,…
Film Review: L’Age d’Or (1930)
This surrealist film, directed by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, made in 1930, continues to shock, repel, scandalize cinema…
Give me “MAGIC”!
Many of us consider ‘serious cinema’ or ‘reality cinema’ as good and the commercial mainstream productions that Bollywood churns out…
FILM REVIEW: KOYAANISQATSI (1982)
One author actually wrote about the movie: “It feels strange to be discussing Koyaanisqatsi using words since the film communicates…
FILM REVIEW: STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)
Jim Jarmusch’s ”Stranger Than Paradise” tells the story of a self-styled New York hipster, Willie (John Lurie) who is paid…
FILM REVIEW: RED PSALM (Még kér a nép, 1972)
Red Psalm directed by Hungarian film-maker Miklos Jancso, is communist musical, if anything can be called that, a musical allegory,…