Anna

Is Anna (Pierre Koralnik, 1967) desperately modish or a critique of desperate modishness? Like most social satires, it prefers to have its cake and eat it. Anna depicts a world that is superficial, conformist, ...

Twice a Man

What are the right words to discuss this? - Stephen Dwoskin on Gregory Markopoulos Advance Guard artists are so far in advance of their audiences that they often have to explain what it is that they are doing...

Desai, Manmohan

b. 26 February 1937, Bombay, British India d. 1 March 1994, Bombay, India ‘No event of any importance in India is complete without a goof-up’ - Ramachandra Guha Prologue It is one of the most famous mome...
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Shadows

Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) is full of shadows, but the murkiest shadow cast is that of race. Famously, its precursor was an improvisation session at the theatre workshop John Cassavetes ran in the mid-1950...
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Husbands

It is tempting to see the title characters in Husbands (1970) as older versions of the trio in John Cassavetes’ breakthrough film, Shadows (1959) – aimless New Yorkers indulging in noisy horseplay, haplessly pi...

Après mai

A teenager sits in class, barely listening to a lecture on classic French literature. The student begins the film actively political, taking part in demonstrations against an oppressive social order, thriving i...