Ranjita Ganesan

Ranjita Ganesan

Ranjita Ganesan

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Animal instinct

26-06-2020 21:12:00

Gaav inspires reflection on widely held, and poorly judged, ideas of what it is to be and appear and behave 'human'
Inside Dr Caligari's cabinet

12-06-2020 21:18:00

Paying attention to words thoughtfully chosen for the intertitles, and observing the actors' purposefully exaggerated moods, is really a high form of meditation
Majestic inactivity

29-05-2020 20:38:00

In this screen fantasy, as also in life, the strange new circumstances put human nature to the test
Then and now in Chile

08-05-2020 21:59:00

In plots that are otherwise skilfully immersive, Larrain always leaves in some extraneous, even contrived, sequences that make you come up for air
The fascinatingly awful Turkish superhero films of a few decades ago

17-04-2020 20:53:00

Starting in the late 1960s, Turkey produced a number of low-budget, high-octane superhero and adventure movies
Homeward bound - cinematic take on the invisible lives of migrant workers

03-04-2020 20:29:00

Beyond the workers' labour, these films ventured to underline their personhood - their ideas, habits, sexual appetites, fears, and capacity for feeling
Falling into a nineties' cinema rabbit hole, and getting a reality check

13-03-2020 22:41:00

Kopitiam, Malaysia's first English sitcom from 1998, became available on Netflix not long ago.
Female TV comics brandish fantastic weapons: bravery, wit, self-deprecation

28-02-2020 22:05:00

McEnany and Bamford, slowed by bad periods, have earned their big moments
How Holocaust-era film The Shop on the High Street frames fascism

14-02-2020 23:46:00

A surreal happy ending and a final tragic one coexist in The Shop on the High Street, which benefits from intellectual honesty and thoughtfully edited frames
Senegal at sea

24-01-2020 22:03:00

Over the years, one has learnt to expect very little from the Academy Awards but Atlantics was robbed of a place in the nominations this year
Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is an utter master of unsubtle symbolism

11-01-2020 00:48:00

His indictments, variously of capitalism and of establishments, are clear as daylight
Improbable lessons for today from a propagandist film of a century ago

20-12-2019 23:01:00

The restoration itself is a reminder of the magic of colours and countries coming together
Iran's love for Indian films in general and Raj Kapoor in particular

06-12-2019 23:45:00

Hindi cinema's excesses have occasionally given succour to Afghans
Golden girls of comedy introduce black women in all their complexity

22-11-2019 22:49:00

The show is deeply rooted in black culture, having been written and acted by an all-female, all-black cast, and is laugh-out-loud funny even to those outside it
In good faith

02-11-2019 00:49:00

The result of young Muslim creators taking charge of their stories has been fresh and optimistic, a welcome departure from the lazy demonising or fetishising of the past.

Ranjita Ganesan

Animal instinct

Inside Dr Caligari's cabinet

Majestic inactivity

Then and now in Chile

The fascinatingly awful Turkish superhero films of a few decades ago

Homeward bound - cinematic take on the invisible lives of migrant workers

Falling into a nineties' cinema rabbit hole, and getting a reality check

Female TV comics brandish fantastic weapons: bravery, wit, self-deprecation

How Holocaust-era film The Shop on the High Street frames fascism

Senegal at sea

Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is an utter master of unsubtle symbolism

Improbable lessons for today from a propagandist film of a century ago

Iran's love for Indian films in general and Raj Kapoor in particular

Golden girls of comedy introduce black women in all their complexity

In good faith

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