Category: Hidden Gems
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Our Film Editor shares with us a woman we should all know!
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In his latest edition of FOTM, Ashish guides us through the exhilarating career of Shanta Apte.
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Ashish shares a beautiful homage to actress, Padmini, in his FaceOfTheMonth series.
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Our writers look at the very best movies from A24.
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She was billed as ‘pari chehra’, the fairy-faced one. Her picture was in every paper. She was indeed young and lovely, her most remarkable feature being her large, magnetic eyes . . . (p. 169). . . . thus wrote, Saadat Hasan Manto about the woman who was considered as the first female superstar of…
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‘The biggest star in the world . . . and she’s not in Beverly Hills’, as David Cort titled his celebratory dedication in Theatre Arts Magazine (1952) to prophesise the superstardom of this dedicatee: a vivacious, versatile actor from Bombay, India, who would go to become one of the most iconic and cherished actors/superstars India…
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Stories of great kings, warriors, demigods, and the paranormal heavily influenced the beginnings of Indian Cinema, soon becoming one of its endemic and prevalent thematic trope/subject. The release of Raja Harishchandra (1913) paved the way for the coalescence of similar narratives that soon were categorised as mythologicals and historicals, simultaneously inspiring an upsurge of individuals…
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Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Red and black. Blurred, distorted. A donkey and a woman. Going round in circles. Birdseye view, until the letters ‘E’ and ‘O’ flash intermittently. Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO (2022) opens with its titular donkey performing in a Polish circus, pre-empting his spiralling through…
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Viewed at the World Premiere on Thursday 26 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. 450,000 Syrians have lost their lives to the civil conflict in Syria over the last decade following pro-democracy protests demanding President Assad’s resignation. When the government deployed excessive force in retaliation for the arrest and torture of teenage…
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Indian cinema is humongous. With more than 20 regional industries, it has transformed its global reputation as an enthralling entertainment industry both within and off the shores of India. Amid these variations within cinemas, three particular forms of cinema have stood apart in terms of gross film production and thematic experimentation: the film-industries of Bombay,…
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Thankfully, after years of being one of the most harshly overlooked directors of all time, Kelly Reichardt’s dedication at the end of her recent feature First Cow to Peter B. Hutton brought some attention to his work. Hutton’s passing in 2016 was a shake to the very foundations of modern experimental cinema (particularly in America)…
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In a new series, Harry Geeves shines a light on a great film that feels overlooked for its genre, Contact.
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An ignored 1972 film gets some love from Reece Beckett.
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Admittedly, it may be a little too soon to call a film only released last year a hidden gem as it hasn’t had long to find its audience. But given the slow response time to Khalik Allah’s work overall, now picking up thanks to his work on recent music videos for Solange and Nas, it…