CINEMA FOR THE PEOPLE

Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy (Meghe Dhaka Tara [1961], Komal Gandhar [1961] and Subarnarekha [1962] is some of the finest-ever South Asian filmmaking.

Tackling religion, self-preservation, pandemics, PTSD, and paranoia, A Prayer for the Dying covers a lot of interesting territory in just 90-ish minutes.

Digger, the latest from uncompromising Mexican auteur Alejandro González Iñárritu, seems purposely designed to frustrate any angle of enjoyment a casual viewer might pursue.