The American movie goers have voted it to be the greatest movie ever made. It has been called a masterpiece, an example of exquisite movie craftsman ship and the greatest triumph of Orson Welles. I’m talking about Citizen Kane. Charles Foster Kane is a newspaper baron, a publishing tycoon who wins and loses friends as…
In my effort to watch old Japanese films, today I discovered a masterpiece by Masaki Kobayashi , Harakiri. The Japanese way of making films is an example in restraint and harmony. The representation of the emotions is intense and there is undeniably a remarkable classicism at work. Unity of action and unity of thought reign…
A novel is called a pocket theatre. It leaves so much to the imagination which is why it has to be the better. However there are certain kinds of novels which are enriched when portrayed in the visual medium; the historical, the mythological, the adventurous or the romantic. Reading a novel is a more personal…