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‘m’
recently started attending classes of a course on ‘cinema and the city’… it is a mphil level optional course for those doing mphil in cinema studies in jnu… my entry point is of course through the city part of the course… we saw the film ‘m’ today… directed by fritz lang… of the german expressionist school… made in 1931… one of the earlier movies on the serial killer theme…
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Tags: borges, cartography, cinema and the city, encyclopedia, excess, fritz lang, m, mapping, modern, urban
dekh raha hoon main kya?
recently been watching a few films…
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Tags: 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, crash, dekhta hai tu kya, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, film, gaze, han solo, michael clayton, neil gaiman, pedro almodovar, ray, star wars, stardust, the simpsons, women on the verge of nervous breakdown
what does the powerless do?
recently read joe sacco’s palestine and watched ararat made by atom egoyan… palestine is a work of political journalism using the medium of graphic novel… genre-bending stuff… great work of art… very interesting compositions… what attracts me most probably is the highly self-reflexive manner of narrating… as joe moves through the locales tis always in his mind that he is gonna draw ths thing, so always thinking about how to get an interesting angle – in reporting as well as visually… tht makes him to stand in a certain place when a strife breaks out between israeli soldiers and palestinians… joe clearly suffers from what probably every conflict-zone journalist suffer from – the naturalisation of violence…
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Tags: ararat, atom egoyan, graphic novel, jnu, joe sacco, minimum wage, palestine, palestine conflict
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