Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

For June's Special Subject, we look at three films by Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak about the aftermath of the Partition of India: Meghe Dhaka Tara/The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Komal Gandhar/E-flat (1961), and Subarnarekha/Golden Lining (1962). Refugee life, classism, intersectional analysis, melodrama, the confusion of familial and romantic relationships, and the possibility of hope within a despairing worldview are a few of the topics that come up for discussion.   Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:          Brief prologue on Ritwik Ghatak 0h 13m 00s:          The Cloud-Capped Star (1960; dir: Ritwik Ghatak) [Meghe Dhaka Tara] 0h 49m 49s:          E-Flat (1961; dir: Ritwik Ghatak) [Komal Gandhar] 0h 58m 17s:          Golden Lining (1962; dir. Ritwik Ghatak) [Subarnarekha]     +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Catch up with Dave’s fledgling Précis du cinema efforts on the Anagramsci Blog or on Letterboxd * Find Elise’s latest film piece on Depression era film romance *And Read lots of Elise