Delving Deeper: A Call for Nuanced Film Criticism
Last month, on a Sunday morning, I was sipping on a cup of tea while reading 'Transcendental Style in Film,' a book by writer/director...
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- Apr 25
The Metaphor of The Banshees of Inisherin: Exploring the Irish History Through Fractured Friendship
Irish War of Independence was a period of gory, anarchy and tumult for Ireland. Many promising young leaders who could have brought glory...
- Mar 17
The Language of Film Adaptation: Anna Karenina
“A composite language by virtue of its diverse matters of expression (sequential photography, music, phonetic sound, and noise) the...
- Mar 13
Everything Everywhere All At Once subverts the notions of reality and identity
Reality is fluid and can be perceived in many different ways, every person has their own reality and or maybe multiple realities but what...
- Dec 18, 2022
A Time For Drunken Horses and The Politics of Violence, or the Philosophy of 'Anti-Education'
Bahman Ghobadi, one of the instrumental protagonists of the Iranian New Wave, seeks to foreground the violent destruction stimulated by...
- Apr 26, 2022
What Does Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali tell us about Visual Poetry in Cinema?
Poetics, just like poetry, is an all-encompassing word. ‘Poetry’ can be everything, and ‘poetics’ can be ‘of everything’. Aristotle, as...
- Mar 26, 2022
Changing the Dynamics of ‘War Cinema’ using ‘Conflict’ as the Lens
have a stereotyped expectation around them which most of the filmmakers only manipulate with creative liberty but never muster the...
- Mar 26, 2022
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - Beyond the Fence
In the mouth of war, humanity decays. It's only the living who know of their motherland, the dead only survives in the soils of history....
- Feb 27, 2022
The Privilege of Love, Rituparno Ghosh’s Chitrangada
In the epic tale of Mahabharata, Chitrangada was a warrior-princess who was brought up by her father, the king of Manipura, as a man....
- Feb 13, 2022
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, An 18th Century Art in Motion
Coastal Brittany, France, 1770. An oceanfront castle. A secret painting. And two hearts that stretch and grow to envelop the magic of...
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