Archive for April, 2009

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    G.I. Joe – Full length trailer
    Right on the heels of Transformer 2’s kickass trailer, another one makes it’s way. If the pulse pounding two minute action is any indication, then we have a very very hot summer coming our way!
    by PFCdesktop at April 30th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    Festivals, Awards, Celebrities, Recognition – But where is Indian Cinema?
    iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: Shrey.dna [at] gmail [dot] com Film Festivals, Award Nites, Celebrities, Recognition – But where is Indian Cinema? Film Festivals in India/Foreign Lands about Indian Films are a big joke. Except for a rare rebellious one or two, like Beyond Bollywood. While making this statement, I go by the film listing and not by...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 30th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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    Born Into Brothels
    If nurtur properly, sense of good art can be developed even among brothel’s children. Making of Oscar winner documentary proves it. IMDB
    by Rk at April 30th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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    The Lives Of Others – A German Movie Set In 1984
    The movie is about policing the cultural scene in East Berlin[GDR] and cutting down the creative liberty of playwrights. Do watch it. Imdb Link
    by crazyrals at April 30th, 2009 at 07:04 pm
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    Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen… kickass trailer
    by PFCdesktop at April 30th, 2009 at 05:04 pm
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    Contemporary Indian Cinema, our Society and Youth
    Watching Indian films and making films in India can be inordinately difficult if one’s thoughts and sensibilities are radically different from those of the accepted Indian society. A society gets the kind of cinema it deserves and therefore the popular mainstream cinema that rakes the moolah in Bollywood is just the kind of stuff the popular and mainstream Indian...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at April 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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    Khosla ka Ghosla : How much you know about it
    No points, no award, no reward! Nothing other than fun can be obtained through this post. Post is for the lovers of Khosla ka Ghosla. Basis of the post = How much you know or want to know about KKG and how mintutely you have seen the film? If you like to be involved, try and have fun. Respective contributors will answer the questions later. What about sharing something...
    by PFCdesktop at April 30th, 2009 at 09:04 am
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    Greed is Good… Gekko is back!
    Wall Street 2 has been given the green light. Oliver Stone will direct the sequel and Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko. It is not clear if Charlie Sheen will be back though talks are on for Shia LaBeoff to star opposite Douglas. It is interesting to see many projects based on the financial sector being given the go ahead in Hollywood considering the times of recession....
    by PFCdesktop at April 30th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    IFFLA ’09 : 7 days in slow motion
    iView Author: Nick (Phoenix, USA) Email: withheld IFFLA ’09 : 7 days in slow motion ‘You must have had a pretty dreadful childhood to be so screwed up.’ A pretty clichéd line, you might have heard people narrate hundreds of times, in movies, in social circles, most of the times as a joke. It’s beyond doubt that early years are a big foundation to an individual’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 30th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    Have You a Script That Tells It All In Two Lines?
    Two unrelated incidents made me put on hold a post I was writing after a gap of almost two months for pfc..These two incidents converged to give shape to this post instead.. Recently I attended a felicitation function where Javed Akhtar Saab was given an award by Enlighten Film Society for his life-time services to the world of Hindi Cinema..And during a tete-e-tete session...
    by krysh at April 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    Mallika Sherawat in Jennifer Lynch’s Hissss
    Jennifer Lynch (d/o David Lynch) takes her third venture to India with Hissss starring Mallika Sherawat and Irrfan Khan. Trailer Addict has the trailer, which may not stay live for long…
    by PFCdesktop at April 29th, 2009 at 04:04 pm
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    IFFLA ‘09 : Impressions
    iView Author: Evelyn Tu (Princeton, USA) Email: withheld IFFLA Impressions : Little Zizou, Leaving Home, Quick Gun, Siddharth, Supermen of Malegaon One of the beautiful things about IFFLA is its location at the ArcLight Cinemas on Sunset Boulevard, where all the movies are screened together and drinks and food are copiously served. I met so many people there, I’m...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 29th, 2009 at 03:04 pm
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    Hulla:for the lost sense of surprise
    Full name? Raj Puri Arey middal name, baap ka naam Shiv Puri Haan to tera full name Raj Shiv Puri hai.. Kitne saal se Mumbai mein rehta hai? 6 saal se 6 Saal!! 6 saal se Mumbai mein reh raha…… BEGINNERS LUCK Common place irritations..bad jokes… Hulla is a delight, quite simply, away from all the noises that it created. Commonplace loud neighbours, the ones who shy...
    by Tushar at April 29th, 2009 at 09:04 am
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    The Believer
    Nazism, history. Present, a self-loathing Jew. Hatred so strong, can love be bygone? Intense. IMDb
    by Arthi V at April 29th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    Blogging ON the set
    Perhaps for the first time ever, a studio has actually set aside a unit publicist to actively blog and update Twitter from the set of a movie, from the sets of one of the most buzzed about movies of 2010, Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. You can follow the blog here.
    by PFCdesktop at April 29th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    The Last Gunslinger
    Feroz Khan was many things to many people, cowboy, rockstar, star, actor, director, producer, friend, lover to me he was a mentor, a father figure and a friend, the fact that I co-wrote Janasheen or that he acted in Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena is co-incidental. I was 6 years old when Qubani released, a word I could barely pronounce, so that summer vacation I would run up and...
    by Suparn Verma at April 29th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    Oscars and Filmfare
    This year, for the first time I was able to watch Oscars and Filmfare within a short span. Filmfare holds a special place in our household as my wife and I have been watching it on television regularly for last 10-12 years. Earlier, the award winners had a curiosity factor as Bollywood wasn’t as common on every TV channel as it is today. Later on, we still kept watching...
    by A. Singh at April 29th, 2009 at 07:04 am
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    Coffee House….That Hopefully Doesn’t Exist…
    Its the end of April and I just did a random check on the number of movies released this month. Hindi films, I mean. I did this because I just saw one today and what it set me off to do is find this list. I came across seven, of which I haven’t heard of two until now. I may get curious about these two, may be interested too but I don’t think Ill venture out...
    by Arthi V at April 28th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    Man Of The Year : Poll-Khol Aur Jhol
    Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. - A dialogue from the movie Since politics is in the air, the campaigning for 3rd phase of polls is over, this is the right time to watch a movie about election of a US President to the office. This movie, written and directed by Barry Levinson, released in 2006 and stars Robin Williams...
    by crazyrals at April 28th, 2009 at 07:04 pm
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    IFFLA ‘09 : Yes Madam, Sir
    When director Megan Doneman and Dr. Kiran Bedi were called on stage to present the film, the over 350 – 500 audience stood up and clapped to welcome the first Indian woman cop and the director of the documentary. And many in the audience were still unaware of who Kiran Bedi was, until they saw the documentary. The same standing ovation followed the ending of the...
    by PFCdesktop at April 28th, 2009 at 08:04 am
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    Sports On Celluloid
    What  is   common  to  sports  and  movies? Well  at  the  end  of  the  day,  both  of  them  give  us  a  kind  of   vicarious  satisfaction,  fulfilling  our  inner  fantasies.   When a Maradona  dodges  past  10  players  to  score  the “Goal of the  Century”,  we  are  as  thrilled  to bits  as  we  are  watching ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at April 28th, 2009 at 06:04 am
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    Amita Malik : the grand old lady of Indian Media journalism
    iView Author: Biswa Prasun Chatterji (Mumbai, India) Email: biswaprasun [at]gmail[dot]com Content : Amita Malik : the grand old lady of Indian Media journalism ‘The grand old lady of Indian film & media journalism’, Amita Malik passed away in February, 2009. She was truly the first of her kind in India. Even, I remember Mr.Prannoy Roy decorating her with...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 28th, 2009 at 04:04 am
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    Need a Girlfriend??
    Need a Girlfriend?? Steven Soderbergh’s next digital odyssey is hitting the screens pretty soon. Starring real life porn star Sasha Grey, this one seemed to have tickled quite a few bones at Tribeca if you go by this snippet from their festival program.
    by DPac at April 27th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    ISLAM : Empire Of Faith
    A good introductory documentary. A wonderful narration by Ben Kingsley. IMDB link
    by Rk at April 27th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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    Samurai’s Bushido in Cinema
    iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: Shrey.dna [at]gmail[dot]com Samurai’s Bushido in cinema I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my Enemy. I have no armour; I make Benevolence my Armour. I have no castle; I make Immovable Mind my Castle. I have no sword; I make No Mind my Sword. - The Samurai Creed The Dawn of the Samurai Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Shchinin...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 27th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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    Pyarelal on Lata : LP musical equation
    Flashback: It is 2005. Pyarelal (the famous second half of Laxmikant- Pyarelal) is in Dubai to attend a tribute show. I along with Kaustubh- (KCP for the PFC readers!), we are dutifully chaperoning him to various TV and radio-stations for various interviews. We enter a studio of a famous Pakistani TV- channel. The host happens to be a veteran Pakistani TV-presenter, who...
    by Dr. Mandar V. Bichu at April 27th, 2009 at 02:04 pm
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    Gabhricha Paus: The Damned Rain – My IFFLA’09 Experience
    iView Author: Anand Samant (Fullerton, CA USA) Email: anandsamant[at]gmail[dot]com Gabhricha Paus: The Damned Rain – My IFFLA’09 Experience P.S: This is not a review of the movie but an attempt to share with others about me, my journey to IFFLA and my impression about the movie Going slightly back into my past, being born in 1982 got exposed to few good...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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    Pan’s Labyrinth – Ofelia In Wonderland
    A must watch! Imdb Link
    by crazyrals at April 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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    Feroz Khan R.I.P.
    Swashbuckling stylish actor – director Feroz Khan passed away on Sunday. Many of his movies have been discussed on PFC including most his bringing the cowboy to India capers. Feroz started his career in B grade movies and quickly progressed to the top playing in such movies like Safar and Aadmi aur Insaan for which he won…
    by PFCdesktop at April 27th, 2009 at 09:04 am
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    December Boys
    Of 4 orphan kids undergoing a summer vacation and how it changes things for them. Rating- 3/5 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465436/
    by Sethumadhavan at April 27th, 2009 at 06:04 am
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