Televisual

lizlet:

I wrote a thing for AJ Christian’s “Indie TV Innovation” series on Televisual, if you want to check it out.

indicia:

Bollywood Recommendations

So I had few requests in my askbox about recommendation for older Bollywood movies. Since no one gave me a timeline I figured people wanted “classics” to watch. Let’s get one thing clear, these are my recommendations which means these are movies I watched and enjoyed so you don’t have to agree. Second, I only went back till 1930’s because I have mostly watched talkies and silent films are not my thing. Third, besides the 30’s I chose 10 movies I enjoyed per decade which means, yes, I have left out a lot of the classics and I am sorry but I have my biases and I chose according to that. Fourth, I debated whether or not to include 90’s for a while and in the end I decided to not include it and not just because I don’t consider 90’s movies to be classics despite nostalgic sentiments. But mostly because movies before the 90’s were for proletariats but it completely changed in the 90’s since the target audience was now yuppies and the films went retro and more family oriented. IF you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

30’s

→ Laila Majnu:  Kanjibhai Rathod (1931)
→ Devdas:  P.C. Barua (1935)
→ Acchut Kanya:  Franz Osten (1936)
→ Adami:  V. Shantaram (1939)

40’s

→ Padosi: V. Shantaram (1941)
→ Naya Sansar: NR Acharya (1941)
→ Sikander: Shorab Modi (1941)
→ Kismet: Gayan Mukherjee (1943)
→ Anmol Ghadi:  Mehboob Khan (1946)
→ Taqdeer: Jayant Desai (1945)
→ Dharti ke Laal: KA Abbas (1946)
→ Neech Nagar: Chetan Anand (1946)
→ Jugnu: Shaukat Hussain Rizvi (1947)
→ Aag: Raj Kapoor (1948)

50’s

→ Barsaat: Raj Kapoor (1950)
→ Awara: Raj Kapoor (1951)
→ Daag: Amiya Chakrabarty (1952)
→ Parineeta: Bimal Roy (1953)
→ Anarkali: Nandlal Jaswantlal (1953)
→ New Delhi: Mohan Seghal (1956)
→ Naya Daur: BR Chopra (1957)
→ Pyaasa: Guru Dutt (1957)
→ Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi: Satyen Bose (1958)
→ Kaagaz Ke Phool: Guru Dutt (1959)

60’s

→ Mughal-E-Azam: K Asigf (1960)
→ Anuradha: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1960)
→ Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi: Kishore Sau (1960)
→ Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam: Abrar Alvi (1962)
→ Bandini: Bimal Roy (1963)
→ Guide: Vijay Anand (1966)
→ Teesri Manzil: Vijay Anand (1966)
→ Padosan: Jyoti Swaroop (1968)
→ Ittefaq: Yash Chopra (1969)
→ Bhuvan Shome: Mrinal Sen (1969)

70’s

→ Guddi: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1971)
→ Pakeezah: Kamal Amrohi (1972)
→ Garam Hawa: M.S Sathyu (1973)
→ Koshish: Gulzar (1973)
→ Abhimaan: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1973)
→ Sholay: Ramesh Sippy (1975)
→ Nishant: Shyam Benegal (1976)
→ Bhumika: Shyam Benegal (1977)
→ Amar Akbar Anthony: Manmohan Desai (1977)
→ Ghar: Manik Chatterjee (1978)

80’s

→ Sparsh: Sai Paranjype (1980)
→ Umraoo Jaan: Muzaffar Ali (1981)
→ Arth: Mahesh Bhatt (1982)
→ Angoor: Gulzar (1982)
→ Ardh Satya: Govinda Nihalani (1983)
→ Masoom: Gulzar (1983)
→ Mirch Masala: Ketan Mehta (1985)
→ Bhumika: Shyam Benegal (1977)
→ Mr. India: Shehkar Kapur (1987)
→ Salaam Bombay!: Mira Nair (1988)

ultramaricon:

(Shamelessly dropping screenshots from my pretentious art film. I’M SO SORRY!!!!)

From “Things We Both Know (Not Our Real Names),” a poem by Roy Pérez adapted into a weird little queer art film by Finn Paul.  

That’s me and tortillero. 

(Complete poem appears in FENCE Magazine #25.)

“Oh hark, Alison! The theater calls. Answer! You were a smash in summer stock,” Audra McDonald shouts to her sister, Alison, as she signs autographs and collects flowers.

“I never did summer stock. That was you,” Alison replies, flatly.

“I have so many good reviews, I’ll just give you one of mine,” Audra says. “You just need to lose a few pounds. 30 or…35. Remember when you had meningitis? You were attractive then!”

Alison McDonald spoofs her 4-time Tony-award winning sister in her web project, She Got Problems. 

entertainmentweekly:

Oh, man — ish is going down this Sunday, when Game of Thrones airs its second season finale. Theon is having a fit of pique! (It rhymes with eek.)

More preview photos here!

Vice on YouTube could be poised for awesome.

At Newfronts, Web Networks Take On Television!

We have a winner (okay, soon).

After I Hate Being Single and Lena Dunham got press for representing Brooklyn, I decided to cobble together a list of scripted web shows set or filmed in Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx — with a couple extras thrown in. Of course there are tens of thousands of web shows, many of them shot in New York city, so this is just a sampler. 

HERE’S THE LIST.