The Film Sufi

Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room ( Jalsaghar , 1958) was rather different from his two earlier and more well-known works, Pather Panchali (...

In the wake of the Ed Snowden revelations about the US National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) illegal surveillance activities, I would expect ...

The Man From Earth (2007) is a science-fiction fantasy directed by Richard Schenkman and based on a short story by noted sci-fi writer Jer...

The Chess Players ( Shatranj Ke Khiladi , 1977) was something of a departure for writer-director Satyajit Ray , since it was a relatively ...

Near the top of any list of greatest Japanese films has to be Seven Samurai (1954), a 3½-hour epic set in the 16th century [1]. The film,...