Purab Aur Paschim (‘East and West’, 1970) sets up a clear distinction between the Eastern and the Western worlds by comparing the cultures of India and the United Kingdom. This is primarily…
Tag: 1970s
The Conversation is a 1974 psychological thriller directed by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who becomes increasingly paranoid after recording a conversation between a…
Solidarity & Intersectionality in Harlan County, USA (1976): A portrait of an Appalachian city in the 1970s may seem utterly irrelevant to today’s world. However, with the growing unrest and fights for…
The Bread and Alley (1970) Short Film Review: Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian director who pioneered a language of cinema that was profound and had a humble basis with diverse elements of life,…
Dev Anand starrer Prem Pujari (1970) Movie Essay: How should someone look at a film which dabbles into multiple territories of emotions, moods, and even genres of films, and while doing so,…
Joel Grey in ‘Man on a Swing’ (1974): In the early 1970s, US director Frank Perry (of the ‘David and Lisa,’ ‘The Swimmer’ fame) had just come out of two back-to-back, women-in-distress…