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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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The State of Modern Comedies โ€“ Solution I: Everything Is Terrible!- Playing Upon Expectations

June 30, 2018
David Morgan Brown
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The State of Modern Comedies: Introduction II โ€“ Golden Globes Best Comedy?

May 26, 2018
David Morgan Brown
RIngu 1998
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[Watch] Video Essay Exploring why “Ringu” is a relevant horror film in the era of clickbaits

May 12, 2018
Topher Ames
LEMMY-CONTRA-ALPHAVILLE
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[Watch] Video Essay Exploring High and Low Art in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville

May 10, 2018
Topher Ames
Article · Essay

Who is Tony Stark?

May 7, 2018
Smita Ganguli
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The Problem of Inclusion Rider: Conformity Hinders Creativity.

April 27, 2018
Suvo Pyne
Article · Essay

Lookback on Lumet: Fail-Safe [1964]

April 7, 2018
David Morgan Brown
Article · Essay

Feminism and its Eternal Affair with Film-making

March 14, 2018
Bijaya Biswal
cinema and the art
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Cinema and the Art of Life

February 13, 2018
Asra Mamnoon
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The Relationship Between the Awards Ceremonies and the Film Press

January 28, 2018
David Morgan Brown

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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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How the Burden of Dreams can take man deep into the Heart of Darkness
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How the Burden of Dreams can take man deep into the Heart of Darkness

Jeremie Richards February 22, 2021

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A Lookback at The Unofficial Oliver Stone US Presidents Trilogy
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The Representation of Women in Film Noir
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Contextualizing Jordan Peeleโ€™s โ€˜Usโ€™
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Contextualizing Jordan Peeleโ€™s โ€˜Usโ€™

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Waterland (1992) Analysis: A Subtle Apocalyptical Critique of the Episteme Called Human
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How Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming explores Post Academia Tedium and Meaning of Life
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40 Years of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
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Lookback at Bresson: A Man Escaped [1956]
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Shikhar Verma February 22, 2021

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