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Confessions of a Subtitle Checker
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“People would be stunned hearing me shout out to my boss, ‘Is motherfucker okay or can bastard go?’”
Confessions of an assistant director
“The key to a successful assistant director is finding the balance between getting work done and doing it yourself.”
Funny Bone to Pick
Cartoonist Nirmish Thaker is tracing the history of cinema through caricatures, and you can be pretty sure he’ll give you enough to chortle about.
Renaissance Woman
Actor, director, social activist... Aparna Sen’s seventh film as director, The Japanese Wife, releases next Friday. She speaks on her new film and how her frustration with mainstream cinema led her to make her own movies.
Propaganda on a Screen Near You
Entertainment in Tamil Nadu is almost entirely motivated by politics, and the DMK is nowhere near loosening its grip on audiences.
One Hundred Years of Akira Kurosawa
Shakespeare, Tolstoy or American crime fiction, Akira Kurosawa fashioned them into his own unique brand of cinema. On his centenary, Open remembers the man whose films launched a thousand remakes.
‘In a Way I am Indebted to Farhan’
At his cosy apartment off Peddar Road in Mumbai, the director of India’s 1978 cult film Don is shaping his second innings in Hindi cinema. After a 31-year hiatus, Chandra Barot, 67, is raring to have one more shot at moviemaking.
Three Men in a Theatre
The astonishing story of three young men who got addicted to Hollywood in the late 1940s and could not give it up as they slowly became old men and the world around them changed.
Pan-Indian Ambition
Mammooty would have us refer to cinema made in India as ‘Indian cinema’. With his latest, Pazhaasi Raja, simultaneously releasing in five languages, he should certainly hope so.
Out of Thin Air
This film offers many of the old-fashioned pleasures of the documentary: it takes us to an unfamiliar place and tells us an unknown story. In this case it’s also an unexpected story.
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