While doing research for another project, stumbled on this very interesting interview. From the intro:
"He has been referred to as a "rebel with a cause," an "enfant terrible of the '70s, and is widely recognised as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema's "second revolution." However, from his speech and writings, one gathers Dharmasena Pathiraja is more interested in re-examining the values that underpin such popular labels than to let his work be framed by mere posturing. If Lester James Peries has been credited with the establishment of an indigenous Sinhala cinema coinciding with Sri Lanka's political, social and cultural revolution during the mid-1950s, and whose works were categorised as "art films" dissimilar to those of mainstream filmmaking, Dharmasena Pathiraja's arrival on the scene in the 1970s would redefine a socially conscious Other to Peries' gaze on "bourgeois idealism." For Pathiraja, critical engagement would be his "alternative.""
Read the rest of the interview at Kinema.
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"He has been referred to as a "rebel with a cause," an "enfant terrible of the '70s, and is widely recognised as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema's "second revolution." However, from his speech and writings, one gathers Dharmasena Pathiraja is more interested in re-examining the values that underpin such popular labels than to let his work be framed by mere posturing. If Lester James Peries has been credited with the establishment of an indigenous Sinhala cinema coinciding with Sri Lanka's political, social and cultural revolution during the mid-1950s, and whose works were categorised as "art films" dissimilar to those of mainstream filmmaking, Dharmasena Pathiraja's arrival on the scene in the 1970s would redefine a socially conscious Other to Peries' gaze on "bourgeois idealism." For Pathiraja, critical engagement would be his "alternative.""
Read the rest of the interview at Kinema.
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Blog 1
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Blog 2
http://katherynmcgaffigan2.
Blog 3
http://katherynmcgaffigan3.
Blog 4
http://katherynmcgaffigan4.
Blog 5
http://katherynmcgaffigan5.
Blog 6
http://katherynmcgaffigan6.
Blog 7
http://katherynmcgaffigan7.
Blog 8
http://katherynmcgaffigan8.
Blog 10 (no blog 9, numbered wrong)
http://katherynmcgaffigan10.
Blog 11
http://katherynmcgaffigan11.
Blog 12
http://katherynmcgaffigan12.
Blog 13
http://katherynmcgaffigan13.
Blog 14
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Blog 15
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Blog 16
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