Tomer naam, amar naam, Vietnam Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema 2023
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Tag: Film
HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA Edited by Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar Just got this to read and it looks totally superb. Here is the cover…
3 Ritwik Ghatak Films not to miss
english subs are hard coded on all three
‘Is this still life all I’m good for too?’
A review of the film Open Unit. The appearance of a new Smith film from Paul Antick is a source […] The post ‘Is this still life all…
Open Unit
Open Unit is another in the ongoing series of Smith and Willing films by Paul Antick. With music by Luke […] The post Open Unit appeared first on…
Documentary on Kolkata filmmaker’s Karbala journey wins award (item from Times of India 2021)
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
MASATO USHIMARU / RESEARCH-BASED PHOTOGRAPHY Photobook and Ethnographic Film: “OUR CO-BLIND”
PHOTOBOOK, OUR CO-BLIND – A Visual Ethnography of the Visually Impaired Community in the Northern Philippines “OUR CO-BLIND -A Visual Ethnography of the Visually Impaired Community in the…
Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ
The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here:
Migrant Media
The power of documentary to inspire action and agitate for radical change has developed alongside social struggles and mass movements for over a century. This article outlines the…
Happy birthday Teddy Adorno 128 years
Big Day – happy birthday Theodor Adorno.… and the tragedy of architecture that leads to warmongering warbucks… The algebra of need: = the culture industry + tourist rubbern…
Reasons to be cheerful
. It is now all the more necessary to make anti-war a credo with results. Would you defend the saboteurs of attack aircraft, the sugar in the tank’s…
Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition – review
In Refugee Voices, Rob Sharp explores how refugees in the UK use creative media to express themselves and their experiences. Through detailed fieldwork in Cardiff and Tyneside, Sharp’s nuanced…
Sympathising… Hard Place/Rock dialectic TV
So many great lines of parody and insight: “Did anyone ask John F. Kennedy if he … ate potatoes every night”. Excellent soundtrack… I am interested to discuss…
Timothy Cooper on his book, Moral Atmospheres
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/moral-atmospheres/9780231210416 Patrick Eisenlohr: Moral Atmospheres is not just a rich portrait of the freewheeling mediascapes of a Lahore marketplace, it is al…
Obstinate memory
Just out – Fero, K., & Hutnyk, J. (2024). Obstinate Memory: A Radical Participatory Film-Based Research Approach. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177…
Pavitra Sundar on her book, Listening with a Feminist Ear
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Listening-with-a-Feminist-Ear2 Anaar Desai-Stephens: One of the primary interventions of the book is this beautiful idea of “listening with a feminist ear…
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each…
Утро Индии Morning in India – 1956 film by Roman Karmen
Even greater than landing on the moon was throwing off the English yoke – reel two of this amazing film by Roman Karmen (4 parts from https://www.net-film.ru/) has…
Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective 1982-1998
If you have not had a chance to get with this big (coffee table) book – even if sometimes the aesthetic overrides the political – there is no…
đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
Joan of Arc in Germany: (Trans)National Adaptations in German-Language Texts and Films
Jeanne d’Arc, the fifteenth-century Maid of Orleans who led France to victory against England during the Hundred Years’ War, was burnt at the stake as a heretic on…
Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…