Talking Films
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Tokyo Sonata’, the unequal music of an emotionally distant family
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s acclaimed drama is available on MUBI.
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Start the week with a film: ‘Yannick’ is a comic take on trolls taking charge of art
Quentin Dupieux’s French-language movie is being streamed on MUBI.
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‘Fighters, not losers’: Rajesh A Krishnan on the three heroines of ‘Crew’
Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon headline the comedy about air-hostesses giving it back to their crooked airline boss.
Nandini Ramnath
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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A dummy’s guide to propaganda films in Bollywood
What do we make of a rash of movies that have more to do with ideology than entertainment?
Nandini Ramnath
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Start the week with a film: In ‘The Wonder’, the strange truth behind a girl’s refusal to eat
Sebastian Lelio’s period drama, led by Florence Pugh, is available on Netflix.
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’, a star as well as an inventor
Alexandra Dean’s documentary is available to rent on Prime Video’s iwonder documentary channel.
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Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
John Frankenheimer’s classic stars Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury and Frank Sinatra.
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How Tamaki Matsuoka became an unofficial ambassador of Indian movies in Japan
A Japanese love affair with Indian cinema that is over 50 years old and going strong
Nandini Ramnath
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Traitor’ breaks the omerta on the Mafia
Marco Bellocchio’s Italian drama is available on MUBI.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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In Fritz Lang’s cinema, the deadly beauty of doom
Screenings of three of the German-American filmmaker’s most well-regarded films ‘Metropolis’, ‘M’ and ‘The Big Heat’ are a reminder of his singular vision.
Nandini Ramnath
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Start the week with a film: ‘Mad Max 2’ and the satisfaction of a sequel well done
George Miller’s dystopian action thriller is available on Prime Video.
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Behind a new Josef Wirsching photography tribute: ‘The vision to recognise historical value’
Debashree Mukherjee has co-curated ‘A Cinematic Imagination’ at Mumbai’s CSMVS museum and edited ‘Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema’.
Nandini Ramnath
The Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time