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Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular ...
If you know even a little about the premise of Funny Games - you start ...
What do you expect of a child who has lost his father at the age ...
Mark Bradford is an admired artist from Los Angeles, California who earned his an MFA ...
The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, ...

Babel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular narrative. Many films are told this way – director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu often constructs his films in this way – but few are as worthy ...
Babel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Funny Games - Michael Haneke

If you know even a little about the premise of Funny Games - you start dreading what you are going to witness from the first frame itself. This fact alone is a commentary on how violence, and the expectation of ...
Funny Games - Michael Haneke

Bikash Bhattacharjee: The Artist of the Artless

What do you expect of a child who has lost his father at the age of six and left to grow up lonely and neglected? For starters, you can expect growing bitterness and disillusionment. What do you expect of a ...
Bikash Bhattacharjee: The Artist of the Artless

An Odyssey into Popular culture: the artworks of Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford is an admired artist from Los Angeles, California who earned his an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. Mark, who is known for his grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints reveals that the working-class sensibilities ...
An Odyssey into Popular culture: the artworks of Mark Bradford

The Cove - Louie Psihoyos

The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, is why? The documentary showcases such a strange stubbornness on the part of the Japanese government, working in defense of a minority of unscrupulous fishermen, ...
The Cove - Louie Psihoyos

Neil Simon’s Chapter Two - Greasepaint

Let me say it right away – if a new kid on the block such as Greasepaint could do justice to a play as rich as Chapter Two on their very first attempt, I am positive ...
11 November 2009 || Read the full story

Bomb in a Birdcage - A Fine Frenzy

Frenzied like a explosive firecracker crackling inside a small birdcage, yearning to break free - A Fine Frenzy's sophomore album, Bomb in a Birdcage is a delight. Spending two years on the road, Alison Sudol's voice ...
19 November 2009 || Read the full story

Nine Lives: in search of the sacred in modern India

India is in the throes of massive and multi-dimensional socio-economic change. That has already – in some circles at least – become cliché. Also, a lot of people are determined to call this change unqualified progress, ...
5 December 2009 || Read the full story

The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity

“Except for the shape, she wasn’t any raving beauty, but she had a sulky look to her, and her lips stuck out in a way that made me want to mash them in for her.” – ...
16 October 2009 || Read the full story

Bikash Bhattacharjee: The Artist of the Artless

February - 1 - 2010 Author: Sourav Roy Respond

What do you expect of a child who has lost his father at the age of six and left to grow up lonely and neglected? For starters, you can expect growing bitterness and disillusionment. What do you expect of a young boy whose childhood is spent in a decaying neighbourhood, chequered with poverty and stagnation? [...]

A Jihad for Love, Small Town Gay Bar, Trembling Before G-d

November - 2 - 2009 Author: Daniel Montgomery Respond

If there’s one thing Christians, Muslims, and orthodox Jews agree on, it’s that gays aren’t welcome. Of course, each group believes the other two are eternally rejected by God too, so what are you gonna do?
Director Malcolm Ingram’s compassionate 2006 documentary Small Town Gay Bar isn’t about religion, per se, but it takes place in [...]

Of Dimes and Dames - The Mesmerizing World of Film Noirs

March - 29 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 9 Responses

Welcome to the world of film noirs – a world infested by two-bit thugs and crooked cops, anti-heroes with a thing for cynical wisecracks, platinum blondes ready to take a good man on a bad ride, femme fatales in the garb of damsels in distress, shabby joints where men of dubious intents plot shady deals over cheap whiskey and cigarettes, seedy hotel rooms where love is just another word. This is a dark, dark world where you get greed, lust, betrayal, double crosses and murder in plenty – a world devoid of the so called good things of life.

Oscar – sold to the studio with the biggest promotion?

February - 6 - 2009 Author: Roy Stafford 1 Response

The film industry, in the form we understand today, is approaching its centenary. The first attempts to organise and standardise production, distribution and exhibition date from around 1910/11. A few years later, the first Hollywood studio majors began to appear in nascent form (Universal and Paramount in 1912). But it was not until 1927 [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 3)

June - 8 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 2 Responses

While speaking about Ray’s contributions to the world of cinema, it is very easy to overlook, especially those who do not speak Bengali, his prolific literary output. In fact it can be safely said that, had he not been a filmmaker, he would still have been as famous, at least in Bengal – such was [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 2)

June - 5 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 1 Response

Ray covered a host of genres in his lifetime – from psychological, urban dramas to satirical comedies and musicals, from political films to children’s fantasies, from historical epics to detective movies, from noirish tales to simple fables, from road movies to buddy films – he covered ‘em all. In Jalsaghar (The Music Room) you have [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 1)

June - 3 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 1 Response

Satyajit Ray was a Renaissance Man – a versatile genius of immense capabilities. A towering personality, he wasn’t just one of the great auteurs of world cinema, but also a prolific writer, a brilliant illustrator, and an exceptional composer among others. Born to a family of literary giants, Ray is a cultural icon like few others.

  • On The Canvas - Marc Chagall

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Police recovers Picasso’s Little Guitar

Art News, News

The Roman police have recovered Picasso's Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. ...

Gold fresco by Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

Art News, News

Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this ...

Nabokov’s unfinished novel reappears

Literature News, News

Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...

Paltrow joins Kidman’s transsexual film The Danish Girl

Cinema News, News

Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story ...

Haitian-born Montrealer wins Blue Met writing prize

Literature News, News

Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...

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