The Khrushchev Thaw represents the period in Soviet Union following the death of Joseph Stalin (March 1953) that allowed for considerable cultural and political liberalization. In February 25, 1956, Khrushchev delivered a…
Tag: Melodrama
“If you ever feel like crying, come to my house. We’ll have a good cry together”, says the perseverant teacher, played by the beautiful and strong-willed Hideko Takamine in Keisuke Kinoshita’s pacifist…
Imagine a full-fledged comic actor, rather one who rose to fame by his comic work attempting a much more dramatic role with a wider palette. Deepak Dobriyal caught many viewers’ attention just…
The unbridled energy, immediacy and meticulously visualized set-pieces in Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station (aka ‘Bab el hadid’, 1958) could serve as the fine introduction point to one of Egypt’s most renowned and…
The development of Chinese cinema is generally compartmentalized into six unique generations of film-makers, starting from the year 1905 (the year first Chinese film was made) to the present. Among these the…
One of the most over-worked sub-genres in cinema is the home-front movies that usually chronicle the tragedies faced by average European families amidst World War II. However, Yoji Yamada’s “Kabei: Our Mother” (2008) has this benefit of being a home-front film that uncovers the Japanese perspective, which is relatively unexplored compared to American & European viewpoints. On one hand, it provides a biting commentary on Japanese wartime policies
