India’s National Film Development Corporation – National Film Archive of India has completed 4K restorations of the entire feature filmography of auteur Ritwik Ghatak and will present them at a month-long retrospective at BFI Southbank in London running through June, marking the
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JSON feed →MUBI Fest Chicago is returning July 10-12, headlined by a special screening of Jane Schoenbrun’s Cannes-winning “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” With screenings held at the Music Box Theatre, the Salt Shed and the Gene Siskel Film Center, this year’s theme is centered arou
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