Calcutta is a city in a state of permanent surprise, where amazement is around every crumbling corner, and astonishment lurks over every rickshaw-puller's shoulder. It is a city that never ceases to shock those who pass through, and it is also a city that manages to delight and enthrall those who are stalwart enough to stay and brave enough to mak... [Read More]

Certainly the most underrated of the best-known directors to emerge from the French New Wave of the 1950s, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was also one of the most versatile. Unlike his contemporaries Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, et al., Malle was born into French nobility (as an heir to the Beghin beet-sugar fortune), which only makes The Documentaries of Lo... [Read More]