In “Kaaduvetty,” director Solai Arumugam relates an interesting tale about women’s respect and their safety that people should normalize. But as the narrative unfolds, one sees the issue of respect, cutting across caste, race, and communities, making it even more combative – socially, at best. “Kaaduvetty” is a story of inter-caste love between Dakshayini, a […]
Radiant: Keith Haring’s career started in the underground but quickly soared to unimaginable heights. In 1978, his drawings of radioactive babies, credited to an anonymous artist known as Chalkman, began crawling across New York subway walls. A few years later he was a household name, flying by Concorde to daub liberating slogans on the Berlin
Rudi Soedjarwo’s new film Saat Menghadap Tuhan or When Facing God is the first production of RexCorp and the very first for five newcomers led by Rafi Sudirman, Abielo Parengkuan, Denisha Wahyuni, Dede Satria, and Cindy Sebastiani which was just recently launched by RexCorp a pioneer production house. Damar (Rafi Sudirman) in turn shapeshifts into
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King Baby, the film produced by Kit Redstone and Arran Shearing, was a project that could have flopped quite easily. The story in King Baby is a parody of the aggressive instincts that women possess, and the men and women are veneered in social constructs that mask the rising violence. It is not only a
Mountain Boy: Within Dr. Michele Ziolkowski’s children’s book series The Boy Who Knew the Mountains comes the feel good film “Mountain Boy” produced by Nancy Paton and Meredith Brett. Suhail an autistic boy, who lives in seclusion in the mountains, has been cut off from interaction with the outside after a certain sequence of events.
Cosmic Miniatures: During the last ten years, the fans’ pain of missing out on feature filmmaking, which had previously been a source of concern for the fans alone, has gained an almost global consensus that films are not made the way they used to. In the same time frame, the field of digital video technology
Most People Die on Sundays: It is often observed that some form of autobiographical accounts are essential for debut filmmakers particularly the directors who have also been actors. Iair Said, last seen in The Delinquents, tries to direct features after making a couple of shorts- and fails at being boring and son. As time goes
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The two Punjabi films that were released on the same date have finally been released and those are, Mansooba and Jatta Dolie Naa. The review of the latter has already been out and here is the honest and complete review of Mansooba. One of the promising looking ventures is “Mansooba” produced by Manjit Singh Mahal
How to every challenge, people have different responses which form the complexities of humanity, and the line that separates the good from the evil. Somu Sound Engineer by Abhi Basavraj manages to present this idea in the manner where, ‘A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a hundred moments of regret’ was
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The interesting part about indie films, and that’s the aspect that I cover, is that filmmakers get very creative in telling their stories. There are those who prefer a few actors or a few locations, while some use old footages in new ways. And some opt for animation. This is where Max Beyond comes in.
