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The film opens with a boy turning on a TV set and we see a Therapist treating a boy who has a problem of “stuttering”. She hypnotises him and then cures him of his problem … why was this shown in the movie??? …well i guess Tarkovsky also had plans of hypnotising the viewers with his visual imagery and symbolisms and thereby take the viewer on a “trip”. It was indeed a trip for me, 10 minutes into the film and the film maker had abandoned me, and I found myself in deep woods, lost!!!

This is what i hate about these “mind-screwing” films. The film maker after earning all the trust before he held my hand to cross the road, just ditches me half way across the road. (I guess Karthick had once written about this )

I am nervous, anxious and filled with fear as i subject myself to …

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A few thoughts on Bengali cinema��

Passion for cinema has produced a few pages of Sudhir Mishra�s diary for readers and expectantly brilliances of Sudhir came out in open in that space.

Sudhir is a name in �so-called� parallel cinema or in good cinema, if I am allowed to use Satyajit Ray�s coinage for it. As I went on reading it I faced a few questions and am trying to present those in my write.

Let me start with a cinema by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, �Ali-Fear Eats the Soul�. It starts with an apparently incorrect title in original German. Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem was cast respectively as an old German woman …