Naseeruddin Shah, the actor, once claimed that “The roots may look lost but every big story in the Hindi film industry is from Shakespeare.” It might not be as simple as that but what Shah was pointing out was to the fact that there are many references to Shakespeare’s plays in Hindi film. Not just… Read More Shakespeare in Indian Cinema: Call for Papers
She unearthed fantastic prehistoric creatures that had been lost to the sands of time, and her achievements — overlooked and uncredited while she was alive — also almost remained buried. An unsung pioneer of paleontology, Mary Anning is finally getting some of the recognition she deserves thanks to the tireless work of academics and campaigners.… Read More Katie Hunt: 'Ammonite' and 5 more works about women overlooked by history
The inspiring documentary, “Writing with Fire,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the impact Dalit women in the Uttar Pradesh state of India have had reporting for “Khabar Lahariya,” a newspaper and website. The journalists, who are in the lowest caste in India, have been working for nearly two decades, despite being told what… Read More In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice
“I plan to add all the videos I take at the borders. Can’t promise consistency but can certainly promise that there is more to come. Not just from me but from this movement…” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQJ7xZ2HU2punZW1FeLFhR51a6tkNfTS Ravinder Kaur: Has Modi finally met his match in India’s farmers? The government’s hopes of turning India into the world’s workshop… Read More Indian Farmers' Protest – Work in progress videos
A Call to Spy is a rare World War II film that doesn’t seek to strike awe and fear — the requisites now to win battles. Quite in character with its heroes, a group of largely unheralded women spies (“the headless”, as they were called) who helped Resistance efforts in a France occupied by Hitler’s… Read More Shalini Langer – A Call to Spy: Radhika Apte-starrer is un-showy and un-bombastic
As a good sickular libtard I have taken in a huge amount of Netflix and other OTT platforms since March. That’s where the planet has not screeched to a halt, in which life does not skulk around behind masks and a six foot distance, in which the breath that keeps us alive does not kill… Read More Mitali Saran – Netflix and chilling effect
Two new films about tending the earth offer very different worldviews Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station on the White Mountain Apache Nation in eastern Arizona. Craig, a White Mountain Apache/Navajo chef, points to an empty refrigerated… Read More Maddie Oatman: Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.
Alexander Nanau’s extraordinary documentary “Collective” unfolds in the aftermath of a 2015 tragedy in the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv that gives this film its title. While 27 people died in the fire, more than 100 were injured and sent to area hospitals. However, an additional 37 of the 100-plus victims died as a result of bacterial infections while hospitalized. One father,… Read More "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back. By GARY M. KRAMER
She was once the most publicly adored woman in the world, yet felt a deep lack of love in her private life. Now a new film about Audrey Hepburn, the first made with the consent of her family, reveals her extraordinary sadness and pain as she candidly discusses the traumas inflicted by her father, her marriages… Read More Nosheen Iqbal: 'The best-kept secret about Audrey Hepburn is that she was so sad’
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