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Movie Lovers We Love: Chitra Neogy Teaches "Film as a Transformative Process"

20 May 2013 7:33 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

Most students walk away from a typical film courses with a better knowledge of the medium’s history and an impressive vocabulary. However such a standard, superficial approach to cinema can leave the viewer unsatisfied, missing out on the rich, powerful qualities of the art form. Professor and filmmaker Chitra Neogy asks more of her students in her class "Film as a Transformative Process" at New York University. Challenging them with difficult foreign films such as Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" or Theodoros Angelopoulos's "Landscape in the Mist," Neogy creates an environment in the classroom that takes students into, what she calls, a deeper language of themselves. "It’s really transformative in the sense that the kinds of films I choose to show are reflective of another language," Neogy told Indiewire. "It’s very intimate, the atmosphere, and intimidating in the sense that the films act as mirrors upon the self. »

- Erin Whitney

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Aleksei Balabanov obituary

20 May 2013 2:29 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Film-maker known for his dark take on post-Soviet Russia

Aleksei Balabanov, who has died aged 54 after suffering a seizure, saw himself as the "anti-establishment rock'n'roller of Russian film" with an aim to make "scandalous, harsh cinema". Many of Balabanov's films are metaphorical black comedies that gaze unflinchingly at the bleakness and violence of the last days of communism and post-Soviet society, with classic Russian rock music on the soundtrack. His first two features, Happy Days (1991) and The Castle (1994), were based on Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka respectively, and Balabanov's nihilistic oeuvre also takes in Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Bulgakov, whose Notes of a Young Doctor was the basis of Balabanov's Morphia (2008).

"I don't make movies with ideas. Ideas make for bad cinema," he said. "I don't make my movies for the intelligentsia, but for the people. That's why they like my films." This was demonstrated by the commercial »

- Ronald Bergan

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