Eight Editorial
Director Profile
/ Satish Naidu
The Real RocknRolla: Tony Scott’s Cinema of Surfaces
The late Tony Scott is one of the key architects of mainstream action cinema over the last thirty years. A discussion of his style, the hidden depths of his heroes behind the kinetic surface of his blockbusters and the influence he has had on filmmakers like Michael Bay.
/ Satish Naidu
- Director Profile
A discussion of post-colonial and hybrid identities in Ruth Prawar Jhabwala’s collaborations with Merchant-Ivory through an examination of titles such as Shakespeare Wallah, Heat and Dust and Bombay Talkie.
/ Harmanpreet Kaur - Review
Hitchcock’s thrillers, from The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog onwards, forges a geometry of terror using objects found in a living room. In that, the films Hitchcock forges the most are at their molecule, family dramas.
/ Anuj Malhotra - Director Profile
The works of the Brothers Quay, with particular attention to the disorienting meta-spaces that they create so effortlessly and the effects and ruptures they provoke in the viewer.
/ Rahee Punyashloka - Review
The various parts of Wes Anderson’s apparatus gears together to form one of the sweetest and most beautiful love stories in recent cinema and perhaps one of the most important films of Anderson’s career.
/ Sudarshan Ramani
- Essay
Cultural and Economic issues in the great horse race for international validation at the Academy Awards.
/ Soham Gadre - Discoveries
A compilation of the diary entries of a few cine-enthusiasts, with recollections, regrets and rewatches of a year in cinema, as they saw it.
/ Various
- Review
An examination of Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, the best liked post-noir crime film of 2012, with special attention given to its socio-economic portrayal of the recession-era American landscape.
/ Gautam Valluri - Interview
Ian Birnie has programmed in New York, Los Angeles and for the last two years in Mumbai, he discusses his career and offers a range of interesting observations on festival organization and cinephilia.
/ Sudarshan Ramani - Festival Report
The festival wrapped up in October but this small dossier includes a list of the best titles played during the festival, an interview with one of the main orchestrators and the transcript of an excellent panel: enough to account for the small delay.
/ Sudarshan Ramani
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General Review: Independent Titles
/ Anuj Malhotra, Sudarshan Ramani & Andres Tapia-Urza - +Plus
General Reviews: Screen Diary
/ Rahee Punyashloka - +Plus
General Review: Theatrical Releases
/ Anuj Malhotra, Sudarshan Ramani and Soham Gadre - +Plus
Book Review: Zona
/ Anamaria Dobinciuc - Transcript
The Mumbai Film Festival organized what some call the first panel on Film Restoration and Preservation in India. Here’s a transcript of this wide-ranging fascinating discussion.
/ Sudarshan Ramani
