Editor's note: All Things Come to He Who Waits by Sudarshan Ramani A brief stock taking of this month's catalogue, with a gaze back at some of the more dubious public and private media spectacles of the last four months.		FACEBOOK  TWITTER
	An Era of Soft Economics by Gautam Valluri An examination of Andrew Dominik'sKilling Them Softly, the best liked post-noir crime film of 2012, with special attention given to its socio-economic portrayal of the recession-era American landscape.
	The Wandering Company by Harmanpreet Kaur A discussion of post-colonial and hybrid identities in Ruth Prawar Jhabwala's collaborations with Merchant-Ivory through an examination of titles such as Shakespeare Wallah, Heat and Dust and Bombay Talkie.
	The Sinister Chandelier by Anuj Malhotra Hitchcock's thrillers, from The Lodger onwards, forges a geometry of terror using objects found in a living room. As such, the direction terror takes in his films is often in reverse of its route in the films of Fritz Lang.
	Wes Anderson's Kingdom by Sudarshan Ramani A trip in time and space to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom where we catch up with a couple of pre-teen lovers on the run. The various parts of Wes Anderson's apparatus gears together to form one of the sweetest and most beautiful love stories in recent cinema and perhaps one of the most important films of Anderson's career.
	The Real Rocknrolla by Satish Naidu The late Tony Scott is one of the key architects of mainstream action cinema over the last thirty years. Satish Naidu examines his style, the hidden depths of his heroes behind the kinetic surface of his blockbusters and the influence he has had on filmmakers like Michael Bay.
	Projectorhead Almanac, circa 2012 by Various  A compilation of the diary entries of a few cine-enthusiasts, with recollections, regrets and rewatches of a year in cinema, as they saw it.
	The Magical Cabinet of Suarteh Yrboq by Rahee Punyashloka The works of the Brothers Quay, with particular attention to the disorienting meta-spaces that they create so effortlessly and the effects and ruptures they provoke in the viewer.
	Top of the Heap: A Look Back at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival by Sudarshan Ramani The festival wrapped up in October but this small dossier includes a list of the best titles played during the festival, an interview with one of the main orchestrators and the transcript of an excellent panel: enough to account for the small delay.
	An Interview with Ian Birnie by Sudarshan Ramani Ian Birnie has programmed in New York, Los Angeles and for the last two years in Mumbai, he discusses his career and offers a range of interesting observations on festival organization and cinephilia.
	Film Restoration in Indian and Global Contexts The Mumbai Film Festival organized what some call the first panel on Film Restoration and Preservation in India. Here's a transcript of this wide-ranging fascinating discussion.
	Lost in Translation: Trials and Tribulations of the Academy Award's Best Foreign Film Category by Soham Gadre Cultural and Economic issues in the great horse race for international validation at the Academy Awards.
	Book Review: Zona by Anamaria Dobinciuc A reflection on Geoff Dyer's extended monograph on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
	General Review: Independent Titles, Special Screenings and Film Festivals by Anuj Malhotra, Sudarshan Ramani and Andres Tapia-Urzua Deccani Souls, Patang, Ninja, Holy Motors, Amour, The Gardener and more.
	General Review: Screen Diary by Rahee Punyashloka Alms for a Blind Horse, Mekong Hotel, Cosmopolis, Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, Rapture and Ex Press.
	General Review: Theatrical Releases by Anuj Malhotra, Sudarshan Ramani and Soham Gadre The Master, The Bourne Legacy, Ted, To Rome With Love, Gangs of Wasseypur II, Skyfall, Talaash, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Arjun: The Warrior Prince.
©2011-13 Projectorhead. All Rights Reserved.