In the book Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen, author John W. Hood provides an insightful examination of the sociopolitical and cultural conditions that have shaped filmmaker Mrinal Sen’s personal and creative ideology. Born into a middle-class Bengali family in Faridpur in 1923, Hood provides a contextual frame of reference to the independence […]
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Alphabetical Reading List
Alain Resnais by James Monaco Alain Resnais (French Film Directors) by Emma Wilson The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder BFI Modern Classics: A City of Sadness by Bérénice Reynaud Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen by John W. Hood Childhood Days: A Memoir by Satyajit Ray […]
Alphabetical Film List
# Numéro Zéro (Jean Eustache) One Moment (Jiří Menzel) 1.1 Flat Acre Screen (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard) Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) Five Rooms (Cinque stanze) (Ursula Ferrara) #6 Okkyung (Andrew Lampert) Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) […]
The Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema by John W. Hood
The Essential Mystery: Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema is a thoughtful, appreciative, analytical, and comprehensive overview of the influential filmmakers that have defined, shaped, and elevated the status of Indian art cinema. By correlating the filmmakers’ personal experiences with the common themes and individual styles presented through their respective cinema, Hood illustrates the diversity, […]
Dust in the Wind, 1986
The sublime opening sequence of Dust in the Wind follows a nearly imperceptible diffused white speck – perhaps the referential “dust” of the film’s evocative title – as it momentarily shifts location near the center of the frame then continues on its inexorable course, gradually converging to reveal a light at the end of a […]
The Adversary, 1972
While not as overtly political as contemporary filmmaker Mrinal Sen, Satyajit Ray’s early 1970s films similarly capture the volatile climate of geopolitical unrest, profound social transformation, and domestic crisis stemming from the introduction of Naxalism into an increasingly radicalized Calcutta student movement. In a way, The Adversary represents this fomenting cultural revolution in its bracing […]