The most popular initiatory Hindu tantric tradition, Srividya (Tradition of the Auspicious Mantra), has played a significant role in the institutional and devotional life of South Asia and the diaspora. In India, leaders of major temple and monastic institutions are Srividya gurus and initiates; hymns to its…

1958 > France > Directed by Jacques Tati
With Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati's eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home and garden of his brother-in-…