From the slow cinema of the new Dhaka wave to the restored prints of the masters — reviews, essays and conversations on the moving image, in Bengali and in English. পর্দায় বাংলা, বাংলায় পর্দা।
Gorgeous to look at and tense for an hour, before a script that mistakes motion for momentum lets the air out.
The director on why she rejects coverage, and the scene she waited three weeks to film.
A new generation of cinematographers is reaching for vintage glass — and remaking what a Bangladeshi film can look like.
A production that followed the rains across three districts to capture a single, unrepeatable season.
The FDC backlots are quiet now — but a generation of independents grew up in their shadow, and never quite left.
For the first time in a decade, the Croisette spoke Bangla. Our correspondent on a quiet, telling year.
Inside the Dhaka archive where a handful of obsessives are racing decay to keep a national memory legible.
While the multiplexes rise, one projectionist keeps a sixty-year-old hall — and its rituals — alive.
