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Bedatri D. Choudhury

Bedatri studied Literature and Cinema in New Delhi and New York, and loves writing on gender, popular culture, films, and most other things. She lives in New York, where she eats cake, binge watches reruns of old TV shows, and makes notes about strangers she meets on the subway. You can give her a holler on Twitter @Bedatri.

Posted inFilm

A Celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous Stories

by Bedatri D. Choudhury August 20, 2020November 5, 2020

The BlackStar Film Festival consistently resists forces that try to define culture in majoritarian terms.

Posted inFilm

Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press

by Bedatri D. Choudhury August 6, 2020November 5, 2020

Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines.

Posted inFilm

Reclaiming the Legend of Bruce Lee

by Bedatri D. Choudhury June 8, 2020November 5, 2020

The new ESPN documentary Be Water seeks to both reassert Lee’s legacy and humanize him.

Posted inBooks

A Queer, South Asian Utopia Comes to Life in This Graphic Novel

by Bedatri D. Choudhury May 28, 2020

Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine imagines what happens when femmes, as Donna Haraway writes, “make kin, not babies.”

Posted inArt

The Body Is Both Vulnerable and Powerful for One of India’s Most Prominent Printmakers

by Bedatri D. Choudhury February 14, 2020February 12, 2020

The Soul (Un)Gendered: Anupam Sud, A Retrospective at DAG gallery is the first retrospective of Sud’s work in the USA, and is good introduction to her intense and existentialist art.

Posted inFilm

Approaches to Feminism by Way of Shirley Jackson and a Black Beauty Pageant

by Bedatri D. Choudhury February 7, 2020February 6, 2020

At Sundance, Shirley and Miss Juneteenth explored ways women claim control of their own narratives.

Posted inFilm

At Sundance, Examining the Relationships Between People and Their Governments

by Bedatri D. Choudhury February 6, 2020February 5, 2020

Documentaries at the festival looked at ordinary people in Cuba, journalists in the Philippines, and lawyers for the ACLU.

Posted inFilm

Kahlil Joseph Imagines a News Channel Foregrounded in Black Excellence

by Bedatri D. Choudhury January 31, 2020January 30, 2020

With BLKNWS, Joseph combats the racist and one-dimensional gaze of the news media.

Posted inFilm

The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Watching Basquiat in Downtown 81

by Bedatri D. Choudhury November 6, 2019November 6, 2019

A time capsule that holds the legendary artist in immortal youth, the cult classic also preserves a certain New York, which has now changed beyond recognition.

Posted inFilm

A Movie Envisions the Trial that Eric Garner Never Had

by Bedatri D. Choudhury October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

Roee Messinger’s American Trial: The Eric Garner Story envisages a future that was denied to Eric Garner and his family, thanks to the extremely racist and flawed legal system in the United States.

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Agnès Varda Says Goodbye to Life and Art In Her Poignant Final Film

by Bedatri D. Choudhury October 9, 2019November 4, 2019

In Varda by Agnès, the revered director makes her own cinematic eulogy.

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An Unearthed Cinematic Time Capsule of New York Hustle and Bustle

by Bedatri D. Choudhury September 27, 2019November 4, 2019

Film poet Manfred Kirchheimer shows off beautiful restored footage he shot in NYC from 1958 to 1960 in Free Time.

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