Posts from — March 2011
Still Magic: An Aladdin’s Cave of 1950s B-Movie Fantasy
by Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas’s essay on Indian B-movies of the 1950s that appeared on the Tasveer Ghar site. Click here to read it.
(Note: It is a five-page long essay, click on ‘Select page’ or ‘Next’ which will appear at the bottom right corner of the page.)
March 22, 2011 No Comments
The Allegory of the ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’, 3D
When I arrived at my hotel in Berlin to cover the film festival, I was surprised to discover a default image of a wood fire quietly crackling away on the flat screen TV on the wall of my room. I wondered what our caveman relatives would have made of a civilization that has come to this point: we don’t need a fire for heat anymore, but we still enjoy seeing and hearing one, even if it’s virtual. [Read more →]
March 15, 2011 No Comments