Movie Mahal

An Online Journal for Indian Cinema

Author: Omar Ahmed

TAXI DRIVER (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976, US) – Omniscience

1970s, Blu Ray, De Niro, Schrader, Scorsese
NORWEGIAN WOOD (Dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2010, Japan) – Chaplinesque Connections

Charlie Chaplin, Coming of Age, Japanese Cinema, Postmodern cinema, Tran Anh Hung
PARTITION (Dir. Ken McMullen, 1987, UK) – ‘What have you done to my world?!’

British Cinema, Indian CInema, Partition, Political Cinema, Roshan Seth, Tariq Ali
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, US) – ‘I’d hate to take a bite outta you. You’re a cookie full of arsenic.’

Burt Lancaster, Latin American Cinema, Melodrama, Noir, Thriller, Tony Curtis
WINSTANLEY (Dir. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, 1975, UK) – ‘There shall be no buying and selling…’

1970s, Auteur, British Cinema, Brownlow and Mollo, Political Cinema, Rosenbaum