Hours in the Dark Essays on Cinema

Home , Aparna Sen, Chomana Dudi, Girish Kasaravalli, James Ivory, Jonathan Demme

T.G. Vaidyanathan

DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS 1996 Contents

Preface ix

Perspectives from the West 1 1. Towards a Century of Cinema 3 2. Denouement in the Modern Film 9 3. Western or Anti-Western? 20 4. The Welles Charisma 23 5. Fassbinder: Breaking the Heart Without Betraying the Mind 26- 6. Bergman's Swan Song ' 30 7. Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-up (1966) 36 8. Costa-Gavras, Z (1969) 40 9. Milos Foreman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 45 10. Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather Part II (1975) 49 11. James Ivory, Roseland (1977) 54 12. Vittorio and Paulo Taviani, Padre Padrone (1977) 58 13. Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 62 14. Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981) 65 15. Jonathan Demme, The Silence of die Lambs (1991) 68 16. Martin Scorcese, Cape Fear (1991) 72

Some Aspects of Modern Indian Cinema 77 1. The Problems of Post-colonial Cinema - 79 2. Art and Commerce: Is There a Choice? 86 3. Films from Literature 91 viii Contents

4. Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (1982) 95 5. Aparna Sen, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) 109 6. Aparna Sen, Paroma (1985) . 114 7. Shyam Benegal, Junoon (1978) 118 8. Shyam Benegal, Trikaal (1985) 127

Saryajit Ray: Artist and Craftsman 129 1. The Humanism of Ray 131 2. Pather Panchali (1955) 136 3. Death in the Apu Trilogy 150 4. Nayak (1966) 158 5. Seemabaddha (1971) 162 6. Shatranj Ke KhiladT{V?rf) 170

A View of the South 179 1. Kannada Cinema: An Overview 181 2. The Cinema of Girish Kasaravalli 187 3. Girish Kasaravalli, Tabarana Kathe (1987) 197 4. Girish Kasaravalli, Bannada Vesha (1988) 202 5. Girish Karnad, B.V. Karanth, Vamsha Vriksha (1971) 205 6. B.V. Karanth, Chomana Dudi (1975) 214 7. Pattabhi Rama Reddy, Chanda Marutha (1977) 219 8. Prema Karanth, Phaniyamma (1982) 223 9. Baragur Ramachandrappa, Abftf (1989) 229 10. Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Swayamvaram (1972) 232 11. M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Nirmalayam (1973) 236 12. P. Madhavan, Mythological Syndrome in Tamil Cinema 247 13. K. Balachander, Arangetram (1973) 253 14. J. Mahendran, Udhiri Pookal (1979) .258

Conversations 263 1. Alea and the Cuban Revolution 265 2. A Portrait of Polanski 269 3. Youssef Chahine, 'Lilli Marlene* and the El Alamein Battle 272 4. Marianne Ahrne and the Invandrare 276

Annotated Bibliography 279