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Thought Factory

Yesterday He faced Starvation; Today He’s a Star in his Own Right on the Art Firmament

The bustling town of Vadodara – familarly known as Baroda – houses a count of nearly 2,500 artists....

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Powerful People

Meet Barnali Ray Shukla; A Writer, Director and Poet

Barnali Ray Shukla dons many hats – that of a writer-director, a documentary filmmaker and a poet. She has worked in movies like <...

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Festivals

Talented South Asian Filmmakers at the Locarno Film Festival

Sanjeewa Pushpakumara’s latest film project ‘Amma’...

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Hollywood

Did Critics go easy on the Phantom Thread?

Phantom Thread, the lush gothic romance from auteur Paul Thomas Anderson was the art-house f...

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Powerful People

Experiments with Storytelling: Meet Anuraadha Tewari

In a freewheeling conversation, Anuraadha Tewari, scree...

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Alternative Entertainment

Akira Kurosawa Names His 21 Favourite Art Films In The Criterion Collection

The highly auteur-respecting Criterion Collection has, as you might expect, done quite well by the work of Akira Kurosawa, director of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, and R...

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Trending

Study: Women Underrepresented In Indie Films, Documentaries

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, movies have largely lacked a woman’s perspective. Auteurs like Dorothy Arzner were rare in the studio system, and 60 years later, t...

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Alternative Entertainment

Maker Of Grand Spectacles

Almost two decades have elapsed since director and scenographer Deepan Sivaraman graduated from his alma mater, the University of Calicut’s School of Drama in Thrissu...

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Hollywood

Isabelle Huppert's 'Elle': The Provocative Rape-Revenge Film Earning Raves

The opening scenes of Elle, the latest provocation from Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, telegraph the birth of what might become a new kind of razor-edged woman’s story....

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Hollywood

Abbas Kiarostami Died: Martin Scorsese Pays Tribute

'He was one of those rare artists with a special knowledge of the world' Revered Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami died today in Paris at the age of 76. A cinephile's favouri...

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