Criticism may have ended with Daney according to Godard, but some zombies still roam in the wasteland of cinephilia.

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June 8, 2025

Hyperactive Voids : The Story of Scenarios (Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno, Jean Paul Battagia and Nicole Brenez)

(Non-narratives do have “spoilers”, but these aren’t the kind that affect your viewing, right?) Two of Godard’s last films, Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” and Scénarios, which were previously only circulating in festivals and languishing in the encrypted financial walls of an NFT service, were finally released by Arte, one of the films’… Continue reading

criticism, Films

direction, Documetary, experimental film, film, Foreign Films, French cinema, Godard, Review, violence
January 1, 2024

Capsule Corner #1

(This is the first article in a series which basically consists of my capsules on some films.) Jigarthanda Double X (Karthick Subburaj, 2023): Power might grow out of the barrel of a gun, but it can be both appended and countered by the lens of the camera. This sentimentally tacked-on thesis to the comic-gangster cinephilia… Continue reading

criticism, Films

12th Fail, Action, Bollywood, Drama, genocide, Indian cinema, Jigarthanda Double X, Killers of the Flower Moon, martial arts, violence

About Me

I am Anand Sudha, a PhD in Applied Physics who dabbles in film criticism. I am a blank slate (mostly) who patches pieces of personality from everyone and everything I admire. Just consider me as an insecure William Blake from Dead Man. Somehow, I have tricked some magazines like InReview, Film Companion and Ultra Dogme into publishing my work, which you can access by clicking on the “Published Writing” page to look at my work for other sites and magazines.

My older blog contains some embarrassing pieces written during the heady arrogance of youth , but you can click on the link below if you want to see some of my older writing. I have imported some links from the blog to this site as they contain my more recent work. This blog will be updated whenever I have the time and mainly contains pieces published only here.

In case you were wondering about the tagline, the end of cinema and criticism in the Godardian sense points to an end for a certain tradition or mode of the art form, paving the way for newer modes. Of course, that critic is me. Sometimes, candour is mistaken for arrogance, but more importantly, silly jokes using French words have to be made.

For those who want to contact me regarding articles, you can send an email to anand.narayanan.n@gmail.com.

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Hyperactive Voids : The Story of Scenarios (Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno, Jean Paul Battagia and Nicole Brenez)

Capsule Corner #1