In this episode, we discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, including how the film differs from traditional mysteries, how Kurosawa depicts violence, and how the filmmaking hypnotizes.

See where Cure is available to watch.

Supplemental Material:

• The Criterion Collection's Cure Blu-ray

• Eureka! Masters of Cinema's Cure Blu-ray

• Cure on The Criterion Channel

• (There Is No) CURE

• Cure: Erasure by Chris Fujiwara

Additional Audio Sources:

• Cure Trailer

• Eureka! Masters of Cinema's Cure Blu-ray

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Announcement: Scene by Scene is transitioning to one episode per month. This new release schedule is temporary. More information in the episode.

In this episode, we discuss Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star, including the Indian Partition’s influence on Ghatak, Ghatak’s unbalanced compositions, and how Neeta “looking” communicates character information.

See where The Cloud-Capped Star is available to watch.

Supplemental Material:

• The Criterion Collection's The Cloud-Capped Star Blu-ray

• The Cloud-Capped Star: A Cry for Life by Ira Bhaskar

• An Anguish at Arm’s Length: Supriya Choudhury in The Cloud-Capped Star by Devika Girish

• Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Ashahani on The Cloud-Capped Star (The Criterion Channel)

• Ritwik Ghatak and the Lost Art of Self-Destruction by Amborish Roychoudhury

• “I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak by Derek Malcolm

• PORTRAIT OF THE DIRECTOR - Ritwik Ghatak | Doordarshan National

• Derek Malcolm on Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star

• Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak by Jacob Levich

• Ritwik Ghatak and his ‘Partition Trilogy’ by Biswadeep Sengupta

• Partition: Why was British India divided 75 years ago?

• The Great Divide by William Dalrymple

• The Story of the 1947 Partition as Told by the People Who Were There by Guneeta Singh Bhalla

Additional Audio Sources:

• The Criterion Collection's The Cloud-Capped Star Blu-ray

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In this episode, we discuss Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach, including the theme of tradition vs modernity, the film’s structure, and the techniques used to transition into flashbacks.

Supplemental Material:

Nova Media's That Day, on the Beach Blu-ray

That Day, on the Beach (Internet Archive)

That Day, on the Beach (rarefilmm)

Edward Yang (Contemporary Film Directors Series) by John Anderson (Book)

That Day, with Edward Yang | PTS Foundation

A One and A Two: Edward Yang Retrospective | Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Edward Yang, a Visionary at a Crossroads (Jean Michel Frodon) | Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Werner Herzog on Edward Yang

Our Time, Our Story: 20 Years' New Taiwan Cinema (2002)

When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang (1993)

INTERVIEW: Reality Check: Edward Yang’s Living Creatures Do “A One and a Two” by Augusta Palmer

The Engineer of Modern Perplexity: An Interview with Edward Yang

Great Directors: Edward Yang by Saul Austerlitz

Additional Audio Sources:

That Day, on the Beach Trailer

That Day, on the Beach (Internet Archive Transfer)

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