Oru Thekkan Thallu Case is Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...
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Digital Cahier
- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Rekha: Pushing the envelope, is Ranjan's recommendation
A woman wronged, embarked on a revenge trip has always been a popular thriller template. Malayalam filmmaker Jithin Issac Thomas reduces...
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Digital Cahier
- 7 days ago
- 2 min
Ajantrik & the 'close-up' katha: Ritwik Ravivar-2 by Amrit Gangar
Image: A screenshot from Ritwik Ghatak’s b&w film ’Ajantrik’ (Pathetic Fallacy aka The Unmechanical, 1957), for Ritwik Ghatak ‘human...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 17
- 1 min
A masterpiece from Philippines is Ranjan Das's recommendation for the week.
Love, betrayal, and revenge form the core of this astounding film from the Philippines. Set in a Manila slum where poverty impinges upon...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 12
- 2 min
THE ‘CLOSE-UP’ KATHĀ: RITWIK RAVIVĀR – 1 by Amrit Gangar
[Image: A screen-shot by AG] SHANIBARER CHITHI (SATURDAY LETTER) TO RABIBARER RITWIK (SUNDAY RITWIK) JĀTRĀ VIA ‘JUST CINEMA’, THE CARAVAN...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 10
- 1 min
Painting life with small strokes, is what this Ranjan's recommendation all about
In a small seaside town somewhere in Japan, a young ex-sex worker works at a roadside restaurant. When she is not working, she...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Swiss watches and Unrest: Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Set against the clock manufacturing industry in a small Swiss town in the 1870s, UNREST (Switzerland, 2022) deals with the brewing...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 25
- 1 min
A small town in Mexico forms the backdrop of Ranjan's recommendation this week
Crumbling small towns seeped in inertia have always exuded a cinematic charm that could be deceptive. In the hands of debutant Carlos...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Taste of Cherry: a masterpiece from Abbas Kiarostami is on YouTube
Taste of Cherry(1997) is one of the two finest films from Abbas Kiarostami. Under the Olive Tree being the other. Simple see the film...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Of Gods and Men from France is Ranjan’s recommendation for the week.
Inspired by true events that happened in the 90s in a remote village in Algeria, OF GODS AND MEN (2010, France) deals primarily with the...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 11
- 1 min
Crime and Ripstein from Mexico is Ranjan’s recommendation for the week
A crook wanting to turn a new leaf after a jail sentence, but being brought back to the world of crime by vested interests for one last...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 5
- 1 min
Un Homme Qui Dort(The Man Who Sleeps) a relatively unknown masterpiece on YouTube!
The story centers on an unnamed university student, referred to as "you" by the narrator, as he suddenly quits attending school, cuts off...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 3
- 1 min
With WW2 as the backdrop : Narvik is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
At the beginning of the Second World War Norway was officially neutral, a position that was respected by the Germans; but the Swedish...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 31
- 5 min
Jafar Panahi: structure, austerity, and social criticism by Sharad Raj
The Circle(2000) If there is an Iranian filmmaker suppressed, banned, and arrested by the despotic regime of Iran it is Jaffar Panahi....
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 28
- 1 min
Love in a super market: In the Aisles is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Working at the supermarket in a German town, two loners – one with a criminal past and the other a victim of an abusive marriage are...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 28
- 6 min
This is neither a review, nor is Pathaan a cinematic masterpiece, yet…by Sharad Raj
The economic parameters within which mainstream cinema works, world over is well known to everyone, as are the means of production,...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 22
- 1 min
Editor's Choice from Youtube: Bresson & Balthazar
It is way beyond me to describe Bresson or his films and the experience of watching them with adjectives. Watch Au Hasard Balthazar and...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 21
- 1 min
A film from Mexico is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Mexican maestro Arturo Ripstein unveils the horror of the Spanish Inquisition in 16th century Mexico, depicted through the arrest and...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
Ugetsu Monogatari-The Mizoguchi treasure by Sharad Raj
FILM: UGETSU MONOGATARI (THE TALES OF MOONLIGHT AND RAIN) YEAR: 1953 LANGUAGE: JAPANESE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPfl1dcTkI&t=438...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
A witty Malayalam entertainer, Kooman is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Popular Malayalam director Jeethu Joseph who gave us DRISHYAM (2013), a film that brought Malayalam cinema into national focus, followed...
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