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Chunhyang: An Artistic Splendor

Chunhyang (2000) is a pre-modern folk tale in a post-modern structure that comes as a surprise to contemporary audiences.

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Chunhyang: An Artistic Splendor

Chunhyang (2000) is a pre-modern folk tale in a post-modern structure that comes as a surprise to contemporary audiences.

Jamal Lacks it: Game Show Politics and Rise of Individual in Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire as a film not only centers on the sets of a game show, but totally follows the ideology of it.

Cinema & Sexuality: On the Death of the Desiring Woman

Why is it that the woman (female lead) in cinema is usually represented as a shadow of the man’s desire - existing only in response to the man’s desires?

Taking Over: Notes on the Host

The Host would have been every bit the box-office event that Crouching Tiger was and would instantly be perceived as superior to Harrison Ford thrillers

Bharati Devi — Documenting Memories

Bharati Devi had been, and still is the sole torchbearer of the most important historical era of Indian Cinema.

A Tribute to Austen-Simon Langton’s Pride and Prejudice

Langton’s Pride and Prejudice like Austen in her novel, depicts irony with ‘unmistakable strains of cynicism, laughing at human nature without any real hope of changing it’.

Where Defeat is Victory – Anachronism is History

The quick paced usage of such stock monochromatic films seemed to allow Ghosh to situate Samaresh Mazumdar’s 1980’s novel Kalbela, cinematographed ( initially planned for the Doordarshan ) in 2007 within the matrix of a period-piece, yet it transcends the confines of a period-film.

Three Times: Temporal Poetics of Hou Hsiao-hsien

Film critics often divide Hou’s oeuvre into three phases that are characterized by different approaches to filmmaking.

The Story of a Tykwer

This essay is only an attempt to look at Tykwer through the miniature lens of Perfume, interrupted by some thoughts on his co-ordinates as a director, relative to contemporary films and their directors.

The Moor Recontextualized Othello to Omkara

In the play Othello stands alone, while in the Hindi film adaptation Omkara is given a full household. Instead of Venice, Omkara is set against the milieu of political and gangster warfare in the rustic interiors of Uttar Pradesh.

The Colours of Language and Legalities: Reviewing Gulaal

The best part about Gulaal is of course the script, that it also lets you down in some parts especially towards the end is another matter and that is also mostly because your expectations have been raised too high.

Metal Gear Solid 4 and Postcolonial History

Metal Gear Solid 4 tells planetary tale of worldwide struggle against neoliberalism & forecast the real-life meltdown of neoliberalism with uncanny accuracy.

Matrix of Claustrophobia: Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red lantern remains rooted in the everyday of a traditional family, and yet hints at state atrocities committed at Tiananmen Square.

Videos To Voice

Community Video is a unique and new initiative in India. These units provide a platform for the disadvantaged communities to voice.

In Search of New Genres and Directions for Asian Cinema

Hou Hsiao-hsien talks about how Taiwanese cinema can become more genre oriented to open up its Asian-Pacific market without losing its “local colour”.

I Can Act in Any State of Mind: Soumitra Chatterjee Interview

Amitava Nag, editor, Silhouette managed to squeeze 35 minutes off Soumitra Chatterjee’s busy schedule for a a tête-à-tête with the legendary thespian.

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