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  • Movie News

Huma Hussain’s ‘Nafs Said’ Tells the Story of an Indian Muslim Housewife Trying to Break Free

Welcome to The New School, a series highlighting striking, rising talents coming out of top film schools. Meet Nafs Said…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

To Make Skater Girl, Manjari Makijany Had to Make It Clear That She — Not Her Husband or Father — Was in Charge

Spoiler warning: The following contains some plot details of Skater Girl, co-written and directed by Manjari Makijany. https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/manjari-makijany-skater-girl "Who is…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

My Love Filmmakers Share What 6 Elderly Couples Taught Them About Long-Lasting Relationships

Netflix's latest love story isn't a reality show or a rom-com. It's a six-part docuseries chronicling a year in the…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Serpent: Where Is the Real Life Marie-Andree Leclerc Now?

Marie-Andrée Leclerc was the girlfriend of notorious convicted murderer Charles Sobhraj, also known as "the Bikini Killer" — or "The…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Serpent: Where Is the Real Life Marie-Andree Leclerc Now?

Netflix and BBC One's The Serpent tells the true story of convicted murderer Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend, Marie-Andrée Leclerc.…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Hotel Mumbai Director Anthony Maras Tells Us About Its Long Journey (Podcast)

Hotel Mumbai, the feature debut from Australian writer-director Anthony Maras, deserved more attention when it premiered in the United States…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto

Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das' biopic, Manto, follows the most tumultuous years in the…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2017

The Touring Talkies of India: India’s Mobile Theaters Are Becoming Extinct, As Doc The Cinema Travellers Depicts

Red mud-baked roads. A smoggy pink dawn. Air redolent with saffron. Loudspeakers propped precipitously. Two boys by a microphone hush…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Lipstick Under My Burkha: Alankrita Shrivastava’s Celebration of Female Desire Survives a Ban, Opens in India

For the past decade, the independent film scene in India has been thriving—in particular, movies that pick at the ancient…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Sex in the Village: An Interview with Indian Director Leena Yadav about Her Buoyant Parched

Womanhood, desire and pain. Is there a more complex intertwining of human experience? Narratives at this intersection are manifold, but…

8 years ago