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    15th Kolkata Film Festival 2009 – Day 5
    On Sunday, they had the worst films scheduled. It was pretty hard to decide which ones to watch as most films were similar, all equally unimpressive. Katalin Varga was playing at noon. Since it had won a couple of awards at MAMI recently, thought of giving it a try. All the movies I watched had one common theme. They all dealt with abuse on women be it rape, murder or...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at November 16th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    15th Kolkata Film Festival 2009 – Day 4
    It just gets better and better. All the 3 movies that I saw today were impressive to say the least. This year German movies are taking all the honors. I have seen 3 German movies and those 3 movies impressed me the most till now. Now Andrzej Wajda is coming to Kolkata tomorrow from what I have heard. If it’s true, tomorrow is going to be special. Made in Hungaria Dir:...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at November 15th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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    15th Kolkata Film Festival 2009 – Day 3
    Day 2 was much better than Day 1. So I hoped it continues with Day 3 too. It did. I did a couple of changes to the schedule and it worked again. Zift Dir: Javor Gardev Bulgaria/ 92 min A neo-noir with a narrative style like Tarantino and Ritchie is what I was told about Zift. I didn’t think twice. It tells the story of Moth (Zahary Baharov) who is out on parole after...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at November 13th, 2009 at 03:11 pm
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    15th Kolkata Film Festival 2009 – Day 2
    After a slightly disappointing first day, I went back and rescheduled couple of films from Day 2. It did wonders. But the highlight of Day 2 was to meet Helena Ignez, the actress of The Woman of Everyone and daughter of director Rogerio Sganzerla, both of whom had come to present the film. The Woman of Everyone Dir: Rogerio Sganzerla Brazil/ 93 min The movie should have...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at November 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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    Kolkata Film Festival – Day 1
    With so many films to choose from I was really confused. I also had to make sure I choose movies by looking that their running time. Finally, after a few hours I was done with my schedule for Kolkata Film Festival. I will be watching 26 movies 7 days. Phew! Some crazy week this is going to be. I started with Fellini as I thought most people would have seen his work so...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at November 11th, 2009 at 05:11 pm
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    Wanted – The Return of Machismo
    When we search the word ‘Hero’ in the dictionary, it says ‘a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities’. After watching Wanted one gets the same feeling. Wanted is all about Hero-ism. It brings back the days when Hindi cinema was about macho-ism. Where the hero would be so larger than life that nothing will happen...
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at September 19th, 2009 at 05:09 pm
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    Mohandas – A Man Lost in his Own Nation
    “Fake lives are real and the real does not even exist.” I heard about the movie Mohandas a few months back. I searched on Youtube and after playing with the keywords for a while, finally found the trailer. I was interested as I loved Mazhar Kamran’s work in Satya. After finding the trailer interesting, I kept waiting to hear more about the movie from someone on PFC....
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at September 4th, 2009 at 02:09 pm
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    Antaheen – The Longs For Love
    ‘Antaheen’ is a collage of love stories, without saying the most abused phrase in Hindi (or Indian) cinema ‘I love you’ even once. Perhaps that is why I identified with it so much. The love shown here seems real, one that can happen in our lives and change them forever. Love comes in many different ways at various points of the lives of the characters in ‘Antaheen’....
    by Aniruddha Chatterjee at August 4th, 2009 at 02:08 pm
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