Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Dec 19, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard |Michaela Cavanagh |Rollie Pemberton

Fifteen minutes into Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960), you sense that this is a movie about lying adults. Anna (played by Lea Massari) is on a yacht cruise with a group of friends near an abandoned island off Sicily. She is lolling about the waves in her swimsuit when she cries that she has spotted a shark. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), her architect boyfriend, rushes to her aid and escorts her safely back to their boat.

Nov 29, 2024 | airmail.news | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022 by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap In his 2005 memoir, Istanbul, the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk describes being more interested in the imaginary world as a child than in the real one.

Oct 23, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Rollie Pemberton |Carleigh Baker |Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard

Welcome to Mind in Bloom, a column deconstructing current events, music and art. A couple weekends ago, on a layover after playing a show in Hamburg, I found myself with some friends at a rock bar on a typically soggy night in East London. Having recently gotten the Sunfly mascot tattooed onto my forearm, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was karaoke night.

Oct 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Halfway through his new memoir, Al Pacino recalls a crisis that unfolded on the set of The Godfather while filming in Sicily. Pacino was shooting a wedding scene with the actor Simonetta Stefanelli, and at one point director Francis Ford Coppola asked him to speak to the local people who were forming part of the background. But none of these extras understood English, and Pacino, despite growing up in an Italian household in New York, didn’t quite speak the language of his grandparents.

Sep 15, 2024 | msn.com | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

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