Mythologies | Roland Barthes

The difficulty of starting with a contemporary author, of philosophy, having tall reputation is that they seem not to engage with areas which seem basic or eternal but are the by-products of a generation or two feeding upon those basic or eternal things. It’s the same feeling that I seem to have with certain directors [...]

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No Smoking

Watched No Smoking few days back at Habitat Center, Anurak Kashyap was a guest there and did a session of Q&A after the movie. Though he advised before the movie began that the movie be seen as the fight of a man against the system, but the obvious reference provided in the movie by naming [...]

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Reading Jung

…Philemon and other figures of my fantasies have brought to me the crucial insight that there are things in psyche that I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own existence..[..]..”If you see people in a room you would not think that you made those people, or that you were responsible for [...]

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Crash

Crash (by David Cronenberg) no doubt is by far the best movie that I have watched this year. I did watch a few movie this year where director has a theme that he explores it very well and you are satisfied by the movie, but Crash just bamboozles you what what it presents and how [...]

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