Tag: cinema

Billion Dollar Barbie: what lessons should cinema draw?

This piece first appeared on my newsletter, Future Proof. You can subscribe for free — and if you enjoy it, maybe you can take out a paid sub. Paid subscribers are, famously, more successful and attractive. Inan interview with Rolling Stone, the actor Randall Park made t...

Delhi’s Old Cinema Halls

The Single screen cinema halls in old Delhi are heritage structures today. Some of these theatres were established in 1930s and were city’s prime entertainment hunts. They are now in shambles. These single screen cinema halls are located in Old Delhi’s Sadar Bazar-Paharganj area.These in...

Rio, 40 Graus: Kickstarting Brazil’s Cinema Novo

When Nelson Pereira dos Santos made Rio, 40 Graus, Brazil was experiencing a disorienting and violent transition both in the political sphere and the cinematic world. The ideology and techniques that would define the future were up for grabs and many people were wondering which way to turn. To ...

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE TACKY THINGS Learning from Toronto’s forgotten and prescient Imperial Six cinema

Toronto has a near-perfect record of dismantling and actively forgetting its history. Perhaps because it’s become a place of such rapid change, it’s inevitable that even the most notable people, buildings and events get swept aside in our fragile collective municipal memory, if we even h...