The bright orange clay target quickly made its way up and out over the old hayfield and seemed to level off in the thermals just as the widening load of 9 shot from a 12 gauge broke the target into ...

World art cinema has lost an important voice. Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud, the acclaimed director of “The Clay Bird,” has been killed in a bus crash near Dhaka. His wife, Chicago-born producer ...

Starring Nurul Islam Bablu and Russell Farazi. In Bengali with English subtitles. Unrated. When major historical events happen to most people, they are usually experienced first on the periphery and ...

The 40-yard mark is where most shotgun enthusiasts see their shooting take a nosedive. There are a few reasons why this happens. The first is simple: The farther a target is from your shooting ...

Documaker Tareque Masud makes a confident transition to narrative drama with "The Clay Bird," returning to his childhood in the politically turbulent period before East Pakistan gained independence ...

Though The Clay Bird has a very specific and interesting historical backdrop, its greater appeal lies in the story of people caught in the conflict between politics and religion, modernity and ...