Volume I · MMXXVI · A Curator
A Curator
Vikram Joshi
South Asian & Middle EasternIndian parallel cinema, Iranian New Wave, Turkish, Lebanese, Palestinian work
"My grandfather worked at a cinema in Bombay in the 1950s; he projected Pyaasa. I have never gotten over this fact. I grew up between Birmingham and Bombay, watching Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mani Kaul at home and absolutely nothing of theirs in any cinema."
"The films I send run from Ray through Kiarostami through Asghar Farhadi through Elia Suleiman. There is a sensibility across this corridor — patient, devotional to faces, slightly absurd — that I am trying to put in front of you."
— Vikram
From recent slates
From Kiarostami, late period. Two characters in a car for almost the whole running time. The car is moving the entire time. The car is also, somehow, going nowhere.
Ritwik Ghatak's Subarnarekha. Long, difficult, and worth it. There is a moment with a train that I cannot describe without weakening it.
A Palestinian film. I will not say more about its politics — the film itself does not press them, and neither will I. Watch for the long take on the road.
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