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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

June 17, 2025
Ishani Routh
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

June 17, 2025
Ajay Rahul Raja
The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

June 16, 2025
Vaishnavi S
Stolen (2025) movie

Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

June 15, 2025
Ayan Dawn
Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™

Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™ (The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs, 2020)

June 15, 2025
Sahil
The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame
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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 9, 2025June 10, 2025
Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes
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Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Santosh Kumar Mamgain June 7, 2025June 8, 2025
What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?
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What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

Ritesh Sharma June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced
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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Ishani Routh June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™
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When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

Ajay Rahul Raja June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
Stolen (2025) movie
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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

Ayan Dawn June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

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Bong Joon-ho Parasite 2019
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Bong Joon-ho – Cinema of modest Prestige and Everlasting Regrets

February 3, 2020
Jai Bhatt
Australian New Wave
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Australian New Wave – Films of the ’80s

January 26, 2020
David Morgan Brown
Aditya Kriplani
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Women in a Man’s World: A Close Look at Aditya Kripalani’s Filmography

January 11, 2020
Ashwani Kumar
Michael Haneke Funny Games Featured
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Michael Haneke: Throwing Away the Chekhov’s Gun

November 28, 2019
Vignesh Ram
Woody Allen
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Woody Allen and Cinema as the Opium of the Masses

November 20, 2019
Malu Barroso
Fight Club (1999)
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Here’s why the cynical re-examination of Fight Club (1999) is lame

October 21, 2019
David Morgan Brown
The Shawshank Redemption Featured
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25 years of The Shawshank Redemption: A Film About ‘Hanging In There’

September 23, 2019
Reubyn Coutinho
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How the Burden of Dreams can take man deep into the Heart of Darkness

September 20, 2019
Jeremie Richards
oliver stone 3
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A Lookback at The Unofficial Oliver Stone US Presidents Trilogy

September 15, 2019
Lakshmi Muthiah
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The Representation of Women in Film Noir

September 7, 2019
Malu Barroso

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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced
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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out
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The Curious Case of the Best Actress Oscar
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The Curious Case of the Best Actress Oscar

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Here’s Why The Oscars Need To Start Recognizing Horror Movies
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Jebidiah Pinnell February 14, 2023

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Taste of Cherry [1997]: The Absurdity of Suicide
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The Question of Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
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‘Ad Astra’ is a sci-fi odyssey about Inter-Galactic Daddy Issues
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Il Maestro By Martin Scorsese: Federico Fellini and the Lost Magic of Cinema
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In Search of an Identity: Omar Lopex’s Glugga (2020)
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Sargam Vyas February 24, 2021

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A Case for John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under The Influence
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Santanu Das February 24, 2021

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Adaptive Fidelity And Silence Of The Lambs
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