Dreams

"I see a wall papered over..."
"Yuddham Sei is nearly over..."
"With the shuffle of feet..."
"J.K. sinks into a wooden armchair..."
"Akira Kurosawa steps into a painting..."
"Mysskin can't remember the dream..."

Hope

"There are places in the modern world..."
"Tamil films are made for an audience..."

Space

"The director inside that office..."
"Space is social morphology..."
"Through the 1970s, most Tamil films..."
"The sound of a gentle voice..."
"There is no shot list..."
"Real, live, industrial, raw..."
"Late that morning, the film's music director..."
"These images and sounds..."
"Whose knife, whose blood, whose earth..."

Art

"A literal origin, a beginning..."
"In the film that they've been making here..."

Love

"His name is Anbu, love..."
"At a certain moment early in Malaikottai..."
"Love, lingering on his beloved..."
"This bond, I felt it..."
"Not far from Interlaken..."
"This song also gives body to a fantasy..."
"The song booming across the space..."

Desire

"yeah, it's desire for you..."
"less like a scar than a sluice..."

Light

"Night has fallen on the colonial world..."
"Light invites an epic scale..."
"Nirav was someone I already knew..."
"So Parithi and his friends rush..."
"Amy has slipped out of the train..."
"Then comes that song..."

Color

"The film is called Va, Quarter Cutting..."
"Here's a film crew, setting up..."
"The film eventually looks like a peculiar..."
"A shipping yard somewhere in Chennai..."
"Arguments for the feelings provoked..."
"There are films in which colors obviously..."

Time

"You hear the clatter of their shiny..."
"Sasha and Billa face each other..."
"An auto body workshop, somewhere in..."
"Sometime later, back in Chennai..."
"There is Sandhya's accident..."

Imagination

"Swetha first sees Rocket Raja..."
"Imagination is an alarmingly creative..."
"In Indian literary tradition..."
"On a flat expanse of bare brown ground..."

Pleasure

"There's a young woman named Priya..."
"Indian cinema is replete with troubling pleasures..."
"After a few days of work..."
"She's a local girl, but she can also talk..."
"Wherever the camera goes on its boom..."
"Were you born to look seven lifetimes..."

Sound

"He beams, thinking of her..."
"This song, Iragai Pole, spans a few minutes..."
"A dystopian city..."
"The song, meanwhile, is a hit..."

Voice

"The power of voice is a power of animation..."
"There was a young, bespectacled woman..."
"The film, Tamil Padam, was a massive hit..."

Rhythm

"There's a problem here..."
"Two young boys catch their breaths..."
"I should take an example..."
"When Sreekar speaks of invisible cuts..."
"The director knows that certain people..."
"Here's another quarrel..."
"Sort of like a remote control..."

Speed

"Here's the cut that Anthony's always..."
"Anthony's finally back at four..."
"Fight scenes in Tamil cinema..."
"The iPod again, watching the rushes..."
"There are 141 shots in 207 seconds..."

Wonder

"The world is disenchanted..."
"Two days later, the cop..."
"The special effect should be understood..."
"The casting of those peacock feathers..."

Fate

"After all that has happened..."
"India has long been imagined..."
"Sadness, Spinoza writes..."
"Dum dum dum dum..."
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