Kapurush (The Coward)
The UCLA film archive is in the midst of its Festival of Preservation, and last weekend, it exhibited two rare short features Satyajit Ray released in 1965 as a double bill: Kapurush and Mahapurush (The Holy Man). Sixteen of Ray’s films (deteriorated by India’s humid climate) have been restored since 1993, [...]
Entries from August 2007
Kapurush - O - Mahapurush
August 21st, 2007 by Doug Cummings · No Comments
Categories: Film review
Out 1
August 2nd, 2007 by Doug Cummings · No Comments
I spent the past weekend experiencing Jacques Rivette’s magnificent, nearly 13-hour Out 1 (1971) at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, a film B. Kite recently described in Cinema Scope as having “joined that pantheon of broken and vanished objects ([The Magnificent] Ambersons, Greed, once and still to some extent Smile) in which, even against [...]
Categories: Film review