Movie Mahal

An Online Journal for Indian Cinema

Author: Omar Ahmed

The Films of Mani Kaul: USKI ROTI (A Day’s Bread, 1970) – ‘The film is about waiting; it is deliberately slow.’

Cinema of Prayoga, Indian CInema, Mani Kaul, Parallel Cinema, Robert Bresson, Space, Time
LAL SALAAM! (Red Salute) – Naxalite Cinema: a Video Essay

Ideology, Marxism, naxalite, Parallel Cinema, Political Cinema, video essay
TRISHNA (Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2012, UK) – The Troubled Maiden

Adaptation, Auteur, British Cinema, Class, Freida Pinto, Indian CInema, Michael Winterbottom, Riz Ahmed, Thomas Hardy
LAND AND FREEDOM (Dir. Ken Loach, 1995, UK/Spain/Germany/Italy) – Transformative Political Cinema

British Cinema, Historical, Ken Loach, Marxism, Political Cinema, Social Realism
PUTTY HILL (Dir. Matthew Porterfield, 2010, US)

American Independent Cinema, Bahrani, Documentary, Mumblecore, Poetic realism