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Monsoon Wedding DVD Review

Famed Indian director Mira Nair returns to her roots and strikes a colorful balance  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Mira Nair's Short Films

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. Criterion’s new DVD/Blu-Ray release of Monsoon Wedding offers not just a beautiful new print of one of the most successful foreign films ever released in America, but also a majority of its directors short films. Its seven shorts span the length of Mira Nair's career, from just out of school to last year. Perhaps moreso than her feature work, which has included some films that seem made more obviously for pay rather than...  read more

The Namesake

Lahiri's novel, already essential reading for anyone stuck in an unfamiliar place, is honestly and earnestly rendered here, and The Namesake will resonate with anyone who's ever felt the crush of a compound identity.  read more