{"id":8542,"date":"2013-05-26T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T17:57:28","slug":"the-cloud-door-1994-mani-kaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8542","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud Door (1994, Mani Kaul)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, colorful 30-minute movie.  Main character is a ringneck parakeet who escapes from a lonely princess, flies away to be captured by Irfan Khan (he&#8217;s asleep and has no lines).  The bird, who speaks as fakely in Hindi as Hollywood parrots do in English, convinces a pretty goth boy to release it and leads him to the princess.  Sensual-looking movie, with more bare breasts than I&#8217;ve seen in an Indian movie before, and a longer-held close-up on a navel than I&#8217;ve seen in <em>any<\/em> movie.  Katy didn&#8217;t get it, and NY Times agreed, calling the movie: &#8220;a succession of brightly colored images that almost tell a story.&#8221;  Somehow this is based on three different literary sources, despite its short length and basic story.  I&#8217;ve read that Mani Kaul was a great artist, never checked him out before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/clouddoor1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>From Upperstall&#8217;s bio: &#8220;undoubtedly the Indian filmmaker who along with Kumar Shahani has succeeded in radically overhauling the relationship of image to form, of speech to narrative, with the objective of creating a &#8216;purely cinematic object&#8217; that is above all visual and formal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/clouddoor2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, colorful 30-minute movie. Main character is a ringneck parakeet who escapes from a lonely princess, flies away to be captured by Irfan Khan (he&#8217;s asleep and has no lines). The bird, who speaks as fakely in Hindi as Hollywood parrots do in English, convinces a pretty goth boy to release it and leads him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,239,113,1690],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-birds","tag-india","tag-mani-kaul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}