Video essays can enhance a viewer’s ability to perceive the different aspects of visual story-telling. In this video essay – the link provided below – I take an in-depth look at Costa-Gavras’…
Tag: 1969
The cultural significance of the work of legendary independent filmmaker and versatile genius Satyajit Ray remains unchallenged. Though Ray’s filmography tells the story of perfecting the art of social realism, his foray…
An unhinged, unsettling & uncomfortable chiller that effortlessly sustains its eeriness from the first frame to the last, The Cremator (also known as Spalovac mrtvol) is an increasingly disturbing & extremely morbid example…
“Larks on a String’s potent imagery retains hope even when the camera moves down into the bowels of hell.“ Czech film-maker Jiri Menzel, who often collaborated with and faithfully adapted the works…
John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy begins with an opening shot of a drive-in cinema screen, blank, standing tall against the deserted Texan landscape in the background. We hear the sound of horses galloping,…
Censorship has been a constant factor in Iranian cinema: either to curb criticism against the regime’s ideological stand or to banish what’s considered as ‘loose sense of morals’. Cultural and political context…