Soham Gadre

1 week ago | lwlies.com | Soham Gadre

About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Soham Gadre

Near the beginning of Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines, Stanley (Lewis J. Stadlen), the head of the advertising department, barges into an editorial meeting and delivers the bad news: “We’re going to have to cut some of your copy this week.” Nearly everyone who has held a freelance or staff position at a publication has heard something similar. I have mostly done freelance writing on the side of a more stable job that pays my rent, but I did work as a contracted writer at a few places.

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre

Last year was the first time I was introduced to the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look” program and I was so surprised by the selection of films and especially Lois Patiño‘s  Samsara, which became my favorite film of 2024 and topped all of my year-end lists, that I couldn’t wait to cover the program again this year. The value of something like MoMIs “First Look” is that it decidedly focuses on experimental, documentary, and international cinema.

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre

Often referred to as “The Soviet Walt Disney”, I’ve gotten to the point of preferring the opposite designation – Walt Disney is “The American Aleksandr Ptushko”. Ptushko came later of course, beginning as an animator with The Missing Certificate (1927) and eventually becoming one of the Soviet Unions and later the world’s most imaginative auteurs with the release of the landmark historical fantasy film Ilya Muromets in 1956.

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Soham Gadre

When we think of clichés, the word is often used to describe mainstream cinema, particularly Hollywood, where tropes and narrative arcs and twists are well-worn and repeated. The word doesn’t get used enough I don’t think to describe festival material however.