Features
Thursday, March 22 2007
Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair
With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.
Reviews
Wednesday, February 3 2010
Amelia
Scenes of Amelia Earhart's early career as a social worker at a racially integrated settlement house in Boston were taken out, as were other critical facts.
Friday, November 13 2009
Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection)
A family drama, as mosaic of modern, globalizing India, as a love story that sneaks up on you, and as a discourse on post-modernity and tradition.
Friday, October 23 2009
Amelia
Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
The Namesake
Whatever else you get out of this movie -- a give-take equation that depends largely on your willingness to follow Nair’s lead -- it’s worth watching for Tabu’s superlative turn alone, which would earn her an Oscar if there were any justice in the First World.
Monday, March 12 2007
The Namesake (2006)
Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.
Blogs
Friday, October 9 2009
Amelia dir. Mira Nair (new film / trailer)
The legacy of iconic pilot Amelia Earhart still sparks curiosity today. Amelia Earhart is now the subject of a new biopic simply entitled, Amelia, starring…
