A Chapter in World Cinema: Essence of Nature in Three Anime of Isao Takahata
By Rituparna Borah
As an appreciator and critic of world cinema, I hope we’ll get more Isao Takahatas in future. As of now, there is only one.
A Chapter in World Cinema: Ebbing Innocence in Theo Angelopoulos’ ‘Landscape in the Mist’
By Rituparna Borah
The director, Theo Angelopoulos, almost certainly aims to illustrate through the movie how humanity, disillusioned, aspires to go back to where it began: to its roots.
A Chapter in World Cinema: The never-ending search for ‘home’ in Wong Kar-Wai’s movies
By Rituparna Borah
Ever so subtly, with a diligent play of colours, facial expressions and moving monologues, Kar-Wai brings home the anguish of homelessness with acute finesse, thereby kindling unwonted emotions even in those of us, who wallow in the feeling of having a home.
A Chapter in World Cinema: Enchanting Disenchantment in Eran Kolirin’s ‘The Band’s Visit’
By Rituparna Borah
As we watch Kolirin’s movie, Max Weber’s despairing ‘iron cage’ goes into a tailspin from the pages of his manuscripts and we suddenly find it in The Band’s Visit: we revolve in a circle of conflicted feelings.
