Strokes of Magic Realism and German Expressionism are to be found in Aneek Chaudhuri’s film “Canvas of a Son.” A visually enticing affair, Chaudhuri utilizes an interesting palette of influences to paint a story of a boy and his stepmother, one that dangerously wanders into taboo territory before contexualizing it and thereby humanizing it. The…
Cinéma Français – Aneek Chaudhuri
The “Diary Du Dimanche” as of late distributed a consternating article entitled ” La vraie facture du Cinema Francais – The genuine expense of French Cinema’. This article highlights the monstrous issues with the subvention framework including cast charges, dispersion bargains, the sub zero condition of TV venture and the absence of open hobby… The…
Is Cinema a Visual art? – Appayan Mondal
Cinema. Well, we all watch cinemas at home,theatres,multiplexes and where not. Where not? Yes. Where not? Almost everywhere. Our real life is a complicated and well-scripted piece of cinema where we do artistic things unknowingly and unprepared but somehow not on celluloid for sure. Celluloid aka Cinema is a medium that lets you turn your…
Dheepan Movie Review – Aneek Chaudhuri
“Dheepan,” the debatable 2015 Palme d’Or winner, was written and directed by Jacques Audiard, whose films usually concentrate on the forgotten and marginalized, the criminal, the displaced, characters World Health Organization try and move out of a permanent underprivileged into the antagonistic thought of French life.
Ontordipon Short film Review
Ontordipon is an ordinary story of love with an attempt to be portrayed in some extraordinary style; it could have been much more closer to life if director would have followed vice-versa i.e. narrating extraordinary things in a very ordinary manner.
Owen Smith & his Lens – Guest Column
In this month’s magazine Royal Bengal Global Film Festival caught up with UK Film & Television maker Owen A Smith who has worked in the UK Film and Television industry for well over a decade in fact he told us that it was a number of years longer than a decade but took several years out doing other things with his life before returning back to the industry he says he is passionate about. We asked him if he could impart to our readers any industry experience that might help new film makers either coming in to the industry or making the transition from making short films to Feature films. Owen was willing to talk to us about some of his early experiences working in film and television which might help new and intermediate producers and crew as the develop in the career as film makers. Owen heads a London based Film and Television Production Company MovieLux Ltd. Producing Feature films and Television Drama series and has been a guest lecturer with the Film faculty at The University of Creative Arts which has several campuses around the London & Home Counties in the United Kingdom.
Dharma Bachhai Short Film Review
Dharma Bachhai speaks of religion in the most practical and rational way possible. The film speaks of a person who uses, or rather utilizes religion as a nomadic element to earn his livelihood.
Veham: A Pakistani Short film Review
Veham is a journey of realization and it underlines the human mind in a very layman-ish term. The protagonist is a man in his mid-younghood where he is left alone in a deserted neighbourhood.
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