On December 3, 1930, Jean-Luc Godard was born to his parents on the Swiss side of Lake Geneva in France. When he was a student at the University of Paris, Godar made his first short film, Operation Beton (Operation Concrete), in 1954. This film represents the daily ups and downs of his life, in which the documentary-like film style or cinema verite (cinema truth) can be seen. This filmmaking style...
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An article by | Debopam Deb Roy Much before George Lucas made Star Wars or Quentin Tarantino made Pulp Fiction, modern cinema was the subject of constant experimentation in terms of form, style and camerawork. The renowned Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, envisioned the possibility of appropriating Western ideologies of filmmaking while his contemporaries still stuck to crafting a separate style of their own based on traditional theater, minimalism and quiet introspection...
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Federico Fellini's name is the most well-known in the history of cinema. Anyone literally connected to the world of cinema and the film industry, from any part of the globe, would undoubtedly be aware of Fellini and his contributions to this sector. He was an Italian film director and screenwriter who was noted for his unique style, which combined fantasy and baroque imagery with realism. He is widely regarded as...
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An article by Miguel Ángel Barroso Filmmaker Luis Buñuel was born in Spain but was not born anywhere in Spain: he was born in Aragón, but not anywhere in Aragon: he was born in Calanda, which is not anywhere to be born. Calanda is a town in the region of Bajo Aragón, province of Teruel. Its current name comes from the Celtiberians; A Celtic pre-Roman settlement that settled there with the...
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Written by Shailik Bhaumik The power of imagination makes us infinite - John Muir [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ecretive, reclusive, strange, mysterious or cold whatever they say about Stanley Kubrick doesn’t fade the distinguished mark he left in the history of cinema through his works. Stanley Kubrick was far from a one-dimensional director. It's true that the 13 feature-length films he made over 50 years of his film career present a disenchanted, sardonic and generally pessimistic...
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An article by Monali Majhi A Traffic-guard turned Graphic Designer turned Film Director Abbas Kiarostami was not a cinephile when he made his first feature. Born in Tehran on 22ndJune, 1940, Kiarostami was son of a painter and interior designer father from whom he inherited his knack for painting. He was an introverted child with communication problems. He never talked to his classmates throughout his basic education. Instead, he used painting...
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An article by Triptayan Chatterjee Just that was the second half of the twentieth century. In the world of parallel cinema, a new wave was seen in the ocean. From Bengali language film, it turned into the film language of international and global cinema. Choosing the most considerable aspect of the different foundations of cinema, the new films made its way. Surrealism, existentialism, Marxism was the center point, post-modernism, new wave,...
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An article by Monali Majhi Celebrated as a queer filmmaker, Rituparno Ghosh was a non-conformist. And I mention queer because by using this very term his contemporaries used to hurl attacks against him and every time, he emerged victorious. It is this identity that defined him but it is not the only identity to do so. He wore many hats. He was a lyricist, writer, director and not to forget also...
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An article by Biplab Das Charlie Chaplin was born in 1889, in London. His childhood was marred with poverty and misery. His mother was a struggling actress. He got his first acting job at the age of 14 while enjoying success in the music halls. In 1910 with Fred Karno troupe Chaplin went to the United States for a three-year gig. In 1913, in Philadelphia, Chaplin came to know that Mack Sennett’s...
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Written by Ananya Jana Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, a truly divine miracle, was born on August 13, 1899 on the outskirts of London. He was the son of Emma Jane and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock. His parents were of English and Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock and Eileen Hitchcock. Raised as a strict Catholic and attending Saint Ignatius college, a school run by Jesuits,...
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