Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. -Ritwik Ghatak On February 6, 1976, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak passed away in a state hospital in Kolkata. He was only 51 years old, his body exhausted by tuberculosis and chronic alcoholism. For decades, he was remembered as the ‘tragic’ outlier of Indian cinema, a man whose debut feature, Nagarik (1952), remained unreleased for twenty-five years until after his death. Yet, fifty years later, the global cinematic landscape has shifted. We no longer ' ...
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Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Iranian screenwriter who co-wrote Jafar Panahi’s film It Was Just An Accident, has been arrested in Iran. The film won last year’s Palme d’Or and is nominated for Best Screenplay and Best International Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards. Mahmoudian was taken into custody for signing an open letter that criticized Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian government over their response to the nationwide protests that have rocked the country and led to widespread loss of life. According to Neon, the US distributor of the film, ' ...
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The Sundance Film Festival this year has unfolded against a backdrop of political anger and public grief, as filmmakers, audiences, and celebrities used the event to protest the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the fatal shooting of a Minnesota man. The protests come after the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, who was shot dead by ICE agents on Saturday during a confrontation in Minnesota. Pretti’s death occurred just two weeks after another fatal ICE shooting in the state, that of 37-year-old Renee Good, intensifying ' ...
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Mohammad Touqir Islam, director of Delupi, Shaaticup and Sinpaat, gave an exclusive interview to Cut To Cinema. The interview was conducted by Md Rabbi Islam. In your work, you use the concept of “Fictional Reality” or “Imagined Reality.” Exactly where does this differ from conventional docu-fiction? Do you change reality for the sake of your story, or do you arrange the story to align with reality? Actually, cinema stands on the foundation of a fictional story. Now the matter is, where do we take the references from—that is the ' ...
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Following the death of Béla Tarr on January 6, cinema has lost one of its most uncompromising moral forces. His films remain as slow, austere monuments, insisting on time, fatigue, and the dignity of looking when nothing seems left to believe in. Béla Tarr did not make films to explain the world. He made films to stay with it after explanation had failed. With his passing on January 6, his work now fully belongs to history, yet it feels uncannily attuned to the present. Long before collapse became a keyword, the Hungarian filmmaker had ' ...
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