Tag: Art

Punjabi Cinema

Punjabi Cinema Gets Artsy

With Punjabi Cinema finally outgrowing the obsession with Balle-Balle and Bhangra, offbeat cinema is fast making inroads with a bountiful crop of middle cinema that mixes realism and entertainment well. Of immense…

Phantom Thread [2017]: A Perverse Fever Dream of Love

“When I was a boy I started to hide things in the linings of the garments. Things that only I knew were there – Secrets.” Paul Thomas Anderson has mastered the craft…

Art and the Obstinate Expectations of Avant-Gardism

“Platonic minds expect life to be like film, with defined terminal endings; a-Platonic ones expect film to be like life and, except for a few irreversible conditions such as death, distrust the…