THE TWO JAKES (Dir. Jack Nicholson, 1990, US)
The Two Jakes is less a sequel and more of a flamboyant continuation and expansion of the sun kissed noir universe of Los Angeles that Polanski brought to life in…
KADAKH (Dir. RAJAT KAPOOR, 2019, India) [spoilers]
There is a dead body in your apartment but you have a plethora of guests arriving for a party to celebrate Diwali very shortly. So what exactly do you do?…
Modernism by Other Means: the films of Amit Dutta – Srikanth Srinivasan (Lightcube, 2020)
Srikanth Srinivasan’s (aka JAFB who writes at his legendary site The Seventh Art) first monograph is a great book about Indian cinema. It is a great book about a filmmaker.…
AMERICAN HEART (Dir. Martin Bell, 1992)
The solitary yet exceptional full length feature by filmmaker Martin Bell is one of the purest attempts at neo-realism in American cinema, effortlessly detailing the painful relationship between a father…
