Reading films with great care
It was a fortunate event for me to participate in renowned film critique and writer John W. Hood's workshop on 6-10th instant, titled “Aesthetics of Satyajit Ray's movie: four classic films” at Bangladesh Film Institute, Dhaka. He wrote many books on Indian/ Bengali classic films. Among them two are highly acclaimed. Those are: The Essential Mystery: Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema and Beyond the World of Apu: Films of Satyajit Ray. John Hood's style of reading a film is not biased to any person, or any society. Rather, he is much more devoted to the distinct art of films. To analyze Ray's movies, he uses such an investigative approach which catches not only the context of the story but also the camera/cinematic elements, the filmmaker's emphasis and most importantly, the comparative analysis of Ray's particular work to his other works.
To develop our film industry and film aesthetics, every film society can arrange such programmes. My heartfelt thanks to John Hood for sowing an innovative seed in our minds to read films with great care.
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