Archive for June, 2010

IA: Elusive Dream XI

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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IA talks about experimental auteur Tom Chomont and examines his role in the hierarchy of the 1960s Structuralist Cinema in America, while also inaugurating its annual Film Critic Symposium in its Issue 11.

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The Diaristic Cinema of Tom Chomont

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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Chomont, a dropout, had enrolled for a course in social documentary at Boston University, but decided to quit midway. He started working in a cinema as a ticket taker and was also programming, what was then called Underground.

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IA: Film Criticism Symposium-I

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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IA assumes a journalistic role, that of an objective bystander, and places a few questions in the midst of leading film critics, academicians and bloggers to locate the role of film criticism in India.

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IA: Film Criticism Symposium-II

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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Second Part:- IA assumes a journalistic role, that of an objective bystander, and places a few questions in the midst of leading film critics, academicians and bloggers to locate the role of film criticism in India.

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IA Weekly- Raavan

Sunday, June 20th, 2010
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It is important to comprehend what Ghatak may mean by stylistic divergence in the context of making a film. The inability to sustain a formal choice or an aesthetic principle throughout the film is an issue that plagues.

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Godard and Solanas in Conversation

Friday, June 18th, 2010
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The film has been the detonator of the act, the agent that mobilizes the old spectator. Furthermore, we believe in what Fanon said: ‘ If we must involve everyone in the fight for our common salvation. Jean Luc Godard

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