Seven Editorial
Essay
/ Daryl Chin
The Archives Project
An examination, with refined skepticism, of the implications of the decline of institutional film culture, the rise of Blu-Ray and DVD, and the related spread of online cinephilia.
/ Daryl Chin
- Director Profile
Philippe Garrel is one of the most personal and uncompromising artists in contemporary cinema. An examination of the aspects of Garrel’s style, focusing on the period in his career that followed in the wake of L’Enfant secret.
/ Rahee Punyashloka - Roundtable
Much delayed for Indian release, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Hugo, is discussed at length, by way of digressions to issues like the traumas of mid-century wars, machines in the cinema and the idea of cinephilia.
/ Various
- DVD Review
A discussion of some of the particular qualities of Mani Kaul’s uncompromising art, and its transfer onto home-video.
/ Devdutt Trivedi - Historical
The second part of an overview of the cinematic history of Bengal, chronicling its post-war glories and the remnants of it which still persist.
/ Shantanu Ray Chaudhari
- General Review
General Reviews: A sample of some of the big-screen theatrical films on offer in the last three months.
/ Anuj Malhotra, Sudarshan Ramani, Satish Naidu - Essay
An overview of the changing personal beliefs of Dibakar Banerjee, his critical reception and an appraisal of his latest film Shanghai.
/ Anuj Malhotra
- Festival Report
A summary of the 2012 Edinburgh Intenational Film Festival
/ David Cairns - Essay
The MeTa Movie Club, organized by Surbhi Goel and friends, is the subject of this first-person account of moviegoing in Chandigarh, India’s only planned city
/ Surbhi Goel
- +PlusBook Review: Laconia, Thinking Through Film
/ Anamaria Dobinciuc
