Indian Cinema – Film Quarterly https://filmquarterly.org Film Quarterly offers serious film lovers in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews that examine all aspects of film history, film theory, and the impact of film, video, and television on culture and society. Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:27:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://s0.wp.com/i/webclip.png Indian Cinema – Film Quarterly https://filmquarterly.org 32 32 119996149 PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Kartik Nair https://filmquarterly.org/2024/04/14/page-views-live-a-conversation-with-kartik-nair/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 21:04:13 +0000 https://filmquarterly.org/?p=12402 12402 Seeing Things: A Conversation with Kartik Nair https://filmquarterly.org/2024/03/01/seeing-things-a-conversation-with-kartik-nair/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:18:42 +0000 https://filmquarterly.org/?p=12286 12286 Turning Sixty https://filmquarterly.org/2018/06/06/turning-sixty/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:53:33 +0000 http://filmquarterly.org/?p=8006 8006 Summer 2017: Volume 70, Number 4 https://filmquarterly.org/2017/06/12/summer-2017-volume-70-number-4-2/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 01:00:26 +0000 http://filmquarterly.org/?p=6948 Thriller’s Queer Feminist History Rotterdam & Sundance Festivals Writings on Juana Inés, Jackie, Earth and Kate Plays Christine RIP John Berger ]]> 6948 The Discomforting Legacy of Deepa Mehta’s Earth https://filmquarterly.org/2017/06/12/the-discomforting-legacy-of-deepa-mehtas-earth/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:05:46 +0000 http://filmquarterly.org/?p=6773 Earth at an important moment in Indian and global history. Writing from New Delhi, he had the opportunity to speak to Mehta in person about her life and work, and that discussion is woven into this column. Since making Earth almost twenty years ago, Deepa Mehta has seen her stature grow to include film festival premieres, an Oscar nomination, and a platform as one of the rare women auteurs on the international stage. She has lived in Canada since the 1970s, but her most celebrated films are not about immigrant displacement or hyphenated identity. Rather, she has always told Indian stories. From the groundbreaking story of a lesbian relationship between two housewives in suffocating arranged marriages (Fire, 1996) to the forced exile of widows in orthodox Hindu scripture (Water, 2005), she has confronted uncomfortable social realities in Indian society. Although she has been labeled an anti-national and had sets burned and cinemas attacked by the religious right for insulting traditional values, she has taken the challenges in stride and continued making films.]]> 6773 A Vocation in Film https://filmquarterly.org/2016/06/15/a-vocation-in-film/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:38:55 +0000 http://filmquarterly.futurepruf.com/?p=3617 3617 Autumn 2008: Volume 62, Number 1 https://filmquarterly.org/2008/09/01/autumn-2008-volume-62-no-1/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:27:17 +0000 http://filmquarterly.futurepruf.com/?p=553 Grindhouse, Paranoid Park, Redacted, Southern Indian Cinema, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Activist Documentaries, Adam Curtis, and a look back on 50 years of Film Quarterly READ: On Looking Back, The Rise and Fall of Film Criticism, Ghost Law, Spatter Pattern, and founding editor Ernest Callenbach looks back on 50 years]]> 553