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'Gangs of Wasseypur,' a Bollywood crime epic from director Anurag Kashyap

Indian crime epic ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ on MUBI

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, gangsters, inspired by a true story, International Cinema, MUBI, SVOD 08/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Vengeance spans three generations and seven decades in Anurag Kashyap’s sprawling crime drama inspired by a true story and featuring 25 original songs.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Charulata’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, historical, International Classics, socially aware cinema, SVOD 05/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ray considered this drama of a gifted and sensitive young woman in 19th century India his masterpiece.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Big City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, socially aware cinema 05/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

The tenth feature from the great Bengali filmmaker look at life in the economic desperation in 1950s Calcutta as the banks collapsed.

Chhabi Biswas stars in Satyajit Ray's masterpiece from India

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Music Room’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Classics 05/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

Graceful and melancholy, this 1959 classic observes the old-world feudal life of the 1920s fading into irrelevance with both sympathy and disparagement.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Apu Trilogy’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, International Classics, SVOD 05/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

The three films that follow the life of a boy from his impoverished childhood in a rural village to the city and adulthood brought Indian cinema to an international audience.

Shah Rukh Kha and Kajol in the Bollywood musical

Bollywoodmania! A dozen of the best Indian musicals on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, International Cinema, music 01/13/2018 Sean Axmaker

Bollywood is more than a genre. It’s more than a film industry. It’s a culture in its own right, and Amazon Prime has hundreds available to stream. Which gives subscribers an opportunity to discover a cinematic way of life. In the most general of descriptions, the Bollywood movies of India tend to be long (around […]

Jackie Chan stars in the China / India co-production directed by Stanley Tong

Jackie Chan in ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, International Cinema, martial arts, Netflix, SVOD 10/07/2017 Sean Axmaker

For Kung Fu Yoga (China, 2017), Jackie Chan returns to the Indiana Jones-inspired adventure comedy of his 1986 hit Armour of God, albeit as an older, more modest archaeologist adventurer, for this co-production between China and India. Jackie is Professor Jack Chan, ostensibly the same character he played in The Myth, who is lured back […]

Blu-ray: Jackie Chan in ‘Railroad Tigers’ and ‘Kung Fu Yoga’

Action, Blu-ray, DVD, martial arts, Well Go 08/20/2017 Sean Axmaker

It took so long for Hollywood to finally find a way to harness the unique mix of martial arts mastery, dance-like grace, playful humor, and giddy charm that had made Jackie Chan a superstar throughout the rest of the world that he was almost too old to show off the extent of his physical prowess […]