Category: media

Remember When Sex And The City Was Considered Excellent Television? (How Quickly We Forget)

“Even as The Sopranos has ascended to TV’s Mt. Olympus, the reputation of Sex and the City has shrunk and faded, like some tragic dry-clean-only dress tossed into a decade-long hot cycle. … But Sex and the City, too, was once one of HBO’s flagship shows. It was the peer of The Sopranos, albeit in a different tone and in a different milieu, deconstructing a different genre.”

Bollywood’s Pre-History: When Movies First Came To Mumbai (Much Earlier Than You Think)

“Movies first came to Mumbai on 7 July 1896. The Lumière brothers sent a man named Marius Sestier to screen their short films to a mostly British audience at the swanky Watson hotel. … But local photographer Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar (popularly known as Save Dada) was at one of those first Mumbai shows – and he was promptly moved to order a camera of his own from the UK.”

Decoding Late-Period Woody Allen

Richard Brody: “These later movies fall into two patterns. There’s Analogue Woody … and Symbolic Woody … The difference is simple: the former films are stories of motives, the latter, stories of theories. The former emphasize writing as a way of exemplifying character; the latter films use situations and devices to embody ideas.”