Posts Tagged ‘Truffaut’

  • What ails Indian Cinema?
    iView Author: Siddhartha Banerjee (Kolkata, India) Email: sidban1[at]gmail[dot]com What ails Indian Cinema? A wrong title at a wrong time, given the mass orgasm Indians are having at the success of ‘Slumdog etc etc…’ The media is almost making us believe that we’ve arrived; the age of cosmetic cinema in the shinning multiplexes of a ‘shining new India’....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am
  • A Sunday Afternoon for ‘The 400 Blows’
    My first introduction to Francois Truffaut’s movies was with ‘Shoot the Piano Player’. But, my lack of cinematic intelligence prevented me from recognizing the masterpiece that it is, at least according to more learned people. I just felt the movie was too dialogue heavy and tries a little too hard to be of a shock value. If you are a bhakt of that movie, please...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at April 12th, 2009 at 04:04 am
  • Mammo : A life burdened under the two nation experiment of Mr Jinnah
    Mammo was not the only one whose life was destroyed by this experiment of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and she merely represents several thousands of people who lost the most important aspects and joys of their precious lives because of Mr Jinnah’s cynical experiment based on two nation theory. Political leader Mr Jinnah was completely failed and so was his experiment....
    by Rk at January 22nd, 2009 at 08:01 am