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See You Down the Road
Noel de Souza
Nomadland tells the story of a woman on the margins discovering the joys and hardships of an itinerant life. Noel de Souza speaks to the Academy Award winning director Chloé Zhao and actor Frances McDormand about the search for America’s soul
Craving Controversy
If Bollywood’s storytellers start choosing to be political props rather than honest artists, then there is little hope
First They Came for the Conspiracy Theorists
Why not to be happy about Twitter’s ban on Kangana Ranaut
Charulata: His Allegorical Women
When the woman made a radical choice, Ray was uncomfortable. He was more comfortable showing women taking a stand against institutional orthodoxy
The Mind of Bengal
It is easy to see why Ray’s films were classed as arthouse in the West. In Calcutta, they were screened in cinemas which showed regular Bengali films, whose audiences in the 1950s and 1960s didn’t watch much Hindi cinema
The Inner Eye
Ray obsessed about the tiniest detail. A sceptic of the time had grudgingly admitted: ‘How did a city boy know that when a frog dies, it floats on its back?’
A Humanist Behind the Camera
Ray chose his stories with the dexterity of a jeweller picking his diamonds. And he was far from naïve on politics
From Genius to Divinity
Satyajit Ray never touched alcohol, and listened to a sonata by Beethoven on his turntable gramophone at breakfast. What else could possibly be required for the biodata of a Calcutta god?
He Kept You at Arm’s Length
But you could always trust Satyajit Ray to say what he meant. His opinions were sharp, to the point
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