[ Did this review for Scroll ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- “You are knowledgeable, and you have p...
The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.3
Please note this post is very much a work in progress and as such a few parts of it need closer fact checking In the previous two posts in t...
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the Hrishikesh Mukherjee book
The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, now in paperback
The cover for the paperback edition of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves is here, and it uses two of the pain...
Monday, June 27, 2016
Chicago (1927)
(The unabridged and updated version of a Siren column about the 1927 silent version of Chicago, first published behind a paywall at the now-...
The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.2
In my previous entry in this series I was looking at how the stories from the Hebrew Bible that the earliest filmmakers adapted into the f...
Nadal as the anti-Hitchcock hero (and other thoughts on tennis and suspense)
[ Did this piece for Mint Lounge’s tennis special ] The final leg of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film Strangers on a Train has the narrative cr...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
What about the good trip? Scattered thoughts on Udta Punjab
Is it a problem that my favourite scene in Udta Punjab isn’t one that depicts the horrific repercussions of drug use (as this film effectiv...