#LetterboxdFriday NEECHA NAGAR - 🇮🇳 Curious hodgepodge of styles: by turns social realism, expressionism, melodrama. And it's Hindi, so it inevitably throws in some musical numbers. The people of 'the Lower City' rise up against the cruelty of the municipal government. No-one actually mentions the British, but it's India in 1946. The subtext is clear. ('This our land, not your land') Movie's in a bloody awful state though. Memo to India: 'film preservation' is not a dirty term ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE HERO - 🇮🇳 One of Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces. One of the best to ever do it Satyajit Ray ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ KOKUHO - 🇯🇵 Decade-spanning three-hour kabuki epic. Shade over-long perhaps, but mostly rather wonderful ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR.PARNASSUS - 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 Terry Gilliam enters the self-parodic phase of his career ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched