#687 A River Called Titas 1973 // Bangladesh // Ritwik Ghatak Criterion Collection (LINK) Ritwik Ghatak’s penultimate 1973 film A River Called Titas taking place in East Bengal indeed echoes a lot from Soviet masters, like Alexander Dovzhenko, in its use of montage as well as profound and elegiac landscape shots. It alludes to Jean Renoir’s The River (1951)… Continue reading #687 A River Called Titas (1973)