“If it’s in life, it should be in the movies”: An Interview with John Sayles & Maggie Renzi
Published in Spring Magazine
Spring Magazine’s Carlie Macfie and Sarah Shahid spoke with legendary independent filmmaker and author John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi on their recent visit to Toronto for Declarations of Independence: The Cinema of John Sayles, a retrospective of their films currently screening at TIFF Lightbox.
What Bugonia gets wrong about the human species
Published in Spring Magazine
Bugonia stretches that aspect of internet culture into our contemporary moment, where the conspiracies are wilder, the economy is worse, and Donald Trump has openly declared war on truth.
The radical hope of “One Battle After Another”
Published in Spring Magazine
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another may be the most important American film made this year. I will go on a step further and say it’s the most relevant American film of the 2020s.
Abolishing film censor board is a positive step
Published in New Age
As masses of people engage in discussions on state reform, we must remember that simply changing the individuals in certain roles and positions means changing the managers of the state while keeping the old state apparatus intact. Abolishing the Censor Board has shown that radical steps can be taken
Funny Boy, representation and dangers of bourgeois apathy
Deepa Mehta condenses a complicated history of struggle within layers of bourgeois trivialities – a reductive approach to the radical politics underlining the Tamil Eelam liberation movement. Published in Spring Magazine.
Village Rockstars directed by Rima Das
Part of Crucial 21st Century Cinema Directed by Women project.
Comfort food for the diaspora
Published in New Age
How does the modern South Asian individual perceive concepts of identity and progress? The South Asian Film Festival (SAFF), which ran from November 4 to 6, explored this question. With a focus on South Asian stories, language, and art, the SAFF was a much needed breath of fresh air in a city that often fails to recognize its diverse minority culture.