During the 1980s, wherever one happened to live in the world, films from the great Soviet cinema of the late 1920s were extremely difficult to see. For many of us, they existed first not as moving images on a screen, but as photographs discovered in books. I remember going to the city library and searching through the film section. Among books on the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism, there would almost certainly be a volume devoted to the Soviet film movement of the 1920s. As I slowly turned its pages, ' ...
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‘Mumbai ka king kaun? Bhiku Mhatre’— this is not merely a dialogue, rather a reminder of an era-changing moment. This dialogue from the film ‘Satya’, released in 1998, was on everyone’s lips at that time. And the film single-handedly shook the entire Bollywood. After this film by Ram Gopal Varma, Bollywood cinema was never the same again. Through this crime thriller, Hindi cinema entered an entirely new era. And Anurag Kashyap was one of those who helped build this era. Anurag was one of the screenplay writers of this film, ' ...
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Azmeri Haque Badhon is an acclaimed Bangladeshi actress known for her powerful performances in films such as Rehana Maryam Noor and The Master. She has represented Bangladeshi cinema on several international platforms and recently appeared in Rubaiyat Hossain’s The Difficult Bride at the Venice Film Festival. During the festival, Bidhan Rebeiro, editor of Cut to Cinema, spoke with Badhon about her journey as an actress and her aspiration to write and direct films in the future. People’s applause, appreciation, and especially the reaction of foreign audiences who are ' ...
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I used to love the Indian courtroom television show Adaalat (2010-2016). I would watch K.D. Pathak take on one case after another and I found it interesting how different witnesses would describe the same incident in completely different ways. You could never be quite sure which version was true and which was a lie. I would find myself trying to guess who the real culprit was. Later, when I began discovering world cinema, I was reminded of those childhood memories of Adaalat while watching Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological mystery ' ...
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Venice Film Festival is glorified by its own grandeur. It is the oldest film festival in the world. Coming here from Dhaka for the 83rd edition, I feel that the journey has been rewarding, for many reasons. To me, the greatest achievement is that, for the first time, a Bangladeshi feature-length film has found a place in the competitive section, Horizons, of Venice. The second major gain is the abundance of new works by established filmmakers at this year’s event. Alongside that, there are also astonishing works by new filmmakers. ' ...
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