Directed by David Polcyn, Erik Rodgers | Reviewed by Debopam Deb Roy Sarka is a wartime drama that takes place in Prague circa 1948. By the end of 1946, Czechoslovakia comes under the direct rule of Communist dictatorship resulting in the rampant execution of non-communist members of the state. The film tells us the story of Sarka, the pregnant wife of Jindrich, who takes up extreme measures in order to...
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Directed by Xi Chen| Reviewed by Debopam Deb Roy Smithy is a beautiful 2D animated film that gives us a glimpse of the world of mice. The story revolves around the lives of toiling mice who sustain their livelihood through extreme hardship. There is an omnipresent fear of being hunted by owls, or at least that’s what the authority wants them to believe. Directed by Xi Chen, the film is an...
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Directed by Jose Evangelista | Reviewed by Kamalika Sarkar "CASE #3809 - The Eldritch Mortician" is a crime story OF 16mins 37secs runtime directed by an emerging filmmaker Jose Evangelista, a recent graduate with an AA degree in film. Jose is a young director from United States of America. In spite of being a student filmmaker he has created a remarkable suspense thriller in form of animation. The opening scene features a...
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An article by Diyashi Sharma Animation Industry is the next big thing happening in the film industry, Animated films over the years have escalated very fast making it one of the fastest growing sector in the entertainment industry.According to the reports from the KPMG India-FICCI Indian Media and Entertainment Industry Report 2017, the Indian animation and VFX industry grew at 16.4 per cent in 2016 to reach a size of INR...
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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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