The Parallel Cinema Club

A film club working to inculcate art film culture with the intention of a community viewing experience.

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This is what to expect on Day 1 of The Parallel Community Festival!

@ashwaystar will be starting it off with the master who started surreal cinema - best part is: it has a discussion following it!

Register here to get the festival pass or the day pass!
https://t.co/eHKxQAFMIo

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@ashwaystar Almost everything we curate

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Day 3: Adit AM and Nithish KP are hosting two films from two different hemispheres of the world!
Screening "Gertrud" by Carl Theodore Dreyer and "Yearning" by Mikio Naruse!
Register here: https://t.co/eHKxQAFMIo

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Our first ever film festival in Bangalore is for the members, by the members, of the members!

For passes (day and festival passes):
https://t.co/eHKxQAFMIo

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Day 2: Sudhakshina Ghosh is hosting Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Kingdom of Diamonds) by Satyajit Ray!
Discussion after the screening!

Register here for this film: https://t.co/eHKxQAFMIo

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This retrospective offers a rare chance to see a ghost work, one that quietly deepens our understanding of his documentary impulse beyond the better-known Rabindranath Tagore. Don't miss this!

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The next Satyajit Ray screening is also one that was banned until 2012 in our country!

TPCC Bangalore: Lesser Known Ray
Film: Sikkim
Date and Time: July 9th (Thursday) at 7:45 PM
Register here: https://t.co/HxIshsvNxx

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Ray’s unobtrusive camera and spare narration allow the landscape itself to become the protagonist, turning the film into a meditative, almost musical portrait of a place on the brink of vanishing.

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Unjustly tucked away among his heavier masterworks, it stands as a sharp social satire on greed and middleclass aspiration. Revisiting the gem in a retrospective reminds us that Ray’s genius could draw laughter just as deftly as it could stir the soul
🎟️: https://t.co/MaYRndy8C2

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TPCC Bangalore: Lesser Known Ray

Screening Parash Pather by Satyajit Ray, tomorrow!
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: Angala, Cox Town

Register here: https://t.co/MaYRndy8C2

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Anchored by Tulsi Chakraborty’s impeccable comic timing, the film brims with visual wit and charmingly inventive early special effects that reveal a master filmmaker at play.

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TPCC Bangalore:
The final film from his retrospective!

This will the kind of Fassbinder you would have never seen before!

Register here: https://t.co/uQOt9trTed

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Screening tomorrow!

🎟️: https://t.co/Cax3X51Cx2

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The jewel of The Japanese New Wave, and it's your time to watch it!

Japanese horror always hits different, and this is no exception!
Come watch Woman in The Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara at Sabha, Blr on 26th June, Friday at 8:00 PM!

🎟️: https://t.co/Cax3X51Cx2

#bangalore

[The Parallel Cinema Club @parallelcinemas]

The jewel of The Japanese New Wave, and it's your time to watch it!

Japanese horror always hits different, and this is no exception!
Come watch Woman in The Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara at Sabha, Blr on 26th June, Friday at 8:00 PM!

🎟️: https://t.co/Cax3X51Cx2

#bangalore

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Programming Notes

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Tomorrow, we're having Jia Zhangke's most revered film.. yet!

Screening Still Life by Jia Zhangke at Angala, Cox Town.
Time: 7:45 PM

🎟️: https://t.co/peQaOpFtsz

Find the programming notes below 👇🏿