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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
La Notte(1961) by Michelangelo Antonioni
“The final sequence of Antonioni’s La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 19, 2022
- 9 min
"Au revoir les enfants" – Childhood, Holocaust and the Cinema of Louis Malle by Vandana Kumar
A lot of films leave us moist eyed. Some go further and simply make us cry and reach out for a box of tissues. Very few make our hearts...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 29, 2022
- 3 min
A cup of tea, a heart attack, Ulmer and Detour by Sharad Raj
“I keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might have been like if that car of Haskel’s hadn’t stopped. But one thing...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 16, 2022
- 4 min
Memories of Tomas Alea's "Memories of Underdevelopment" by Sharad Raj
MOU YEAR: 1968 LANGUAGE: SPANISH Those were revolutionary times in Latin America. While Ernesto ‘Che’ Gauvera was formulating his...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 23, 2022
- 11 min
Cinema of Bangladesh & its legacy by Shabbir Ahmed
Introduction To understand any art form, it’s necessary to know its journey and the evolution it undergoes. To apply this to cinema, some...
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Digital Cahier
- Jul 3, 2022
- 10 min
Le Grand Amour – The Comic World of the Forgotten Pierre Étaix by Vandana Kumar
“Twice in my life, I understood what genius meant,” Jerry Lewis once said: “The first time when I looked up the definition in a...
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Digital Cahier
- Apr 24, 2022
- 9 min
Or (My Treasure) – Keren Yedaya’s lenses women & trauma by Vandana Kumar
Since the last 15 years or so, cinema from Israel, has been getting a lot more recognition globally – in terms of prestigious awards and...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 8, 2022
- 4 min
Corleones & the poetry of Crime: 50 years of "The Godfather" by Sharad Raj
The year was 1981, when at the age of 15 I had my first tryst with Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel, “The Godfather” in my hometown of...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 3, 2022
- 10 min
Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women):Crime Drama, Women and Claude Chabrol! by Vandana Kumar
I am writing my third article that revolves around Claude Chabrol-the undisputed master of the poetry of murder and one of the founding...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 12, 2022
- 10 min
Drifting Clouds – "The Poetry of the Quotidian" of Aki Kaurismäki by Vandana Kumar
To think of Finnish cinema, is to think of Aki Kaurismäki. Apparently, this perception isn’t entirely off the mark as the writer-director...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 8, 2021
- 8 min
Where Is the Friend's Home? Kiarostami and ‘The Poetic Minimalism’ of the Journey by Vandana Kumar
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) is unarguably the most known face of Iran on the map of World cinema. After seeing not just a couple of his...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2 min
The Chosen Path: Eric Iglesias's debut feature looks at the choice between the clinic and the church
The logline for the film: "A conservative girl will have to make choices about her faith, beliefs and friendships after discovering an...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 2, 2021
- 10 min
So Close to Reality: Martin Scorsese interviewed by Khalid Mohamed
A twisted taxi driver points an imaginary gun at the mirror. In his pokey room, a sign says, "Get yourself organazized.'' Out on the...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 1, 2021
- 9 min
‘Le Boucher’- Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder by Vandana Kumar
My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’ (‘La Nouvelle Vague’) was through Claude Chabrol’s ‘Violette Nozière’(1978). My admiration of...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 26, 2021
- 4 min
A murmur without noise: Sharad Raj looks at Louis Malle's controversial masterpiece
Louis Malle(1932-1995) Murmur of the Heart (Le souffle au cœur) is a 1971 film by French filmmaker Louis Malle also known for his other...
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