Surya Gupta

Still from Ritwak Ghatak's "My Lenin" a Documentary short film from 1970s Bengal. These past few month I've inadvertently fallen into the role of "projector" for my friend's dorm hangouts. I'll hook my laptop to the tv and spend hours showing music, tv shows, movies, Wikipedia articles, whatever ends up the object of our conversation. I'll occasionally pull up a film from my watchlist and throw it on, or start explaining the Kuleshov Effect, it's almost like teaching a class on nothing and...

The Beatles in costume (photo edited by me) Two weeks ago I was at this antique and costume store and was flipping through their DVD collection and came across this really bad-looking movie called ' Caveman' that just so happened to star Ringo Starr of the Beatles and also Dennis Quaid. I ended up watching off Tubi the other day, not something I'd recommend as it wasn't a very good film, but it opened the door to the wonderfully confusing relationship between the Cinema and the Beatles. As...

French New Wave is a beautiful part of cinematic history. A reinvention of cinema in a lot of senses, a rebirth, an urge to use something "old" and create something "new." Well Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, an homage to a giant of the era, Jean-Luc Godard, does none of that. Still for film, Nouvelle Vague (2025) Streaming on Netflix The film's greatest downfall is it's execution. The setting, concept, and characters are all quite interesting in theory, but the way they came together ...