Steve McQueen made the Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave,’ but did not win one for directing it. He is, however, the first Black filmmaker to win Best Picture. ‘Small Axe,’ an…
Tag: 1971
Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anand, which released in March 12, 1971 remains a timeless classic in the history of Indian Cinema. Even though the film marked the 50th year of its release, the Rajesh…
The fifth & final western from the auteur of spaghetti westerns, Duck, You Sucker is arguably the most under-appreciated film of his career. Although not as great as his previous works in…
Like Tchaikovsky, the subject of his fourth theatrical film The Music Lovers, Russell demonstrated a similar sense of emotional intensity and rigorous ferocity, unfazed by what critics or tradition dictated.
Every human life is an experiment. And as it goes with experiments, most are failures. Ken Loach’s Family Life may feature its glimmers of hope, but it ultimately concludes on how the lives of the troubled are merely used as cautionary tales for others, especially when there’s a decreasing sense of anomie in the culture (and at home).
Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938-2013) was considered by many as the equal of Andrei Tarkovsky, the auteur oft bedecked with the title, ‘best Russian film-maker’. Although both these great directors were stifled by…
