Posts Tagged ‘Book’

  • Casting Ouch! A Star is Found (Book Review)
    A film stays with you when you begin to identify n actor with a role he played in it. Marlon Brando becomes synonymous with Godfather. What if Ernest Borgine and Ryan O’Neal played the roles of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino? Humphrey Bogart was not the first choice for Casablanca-George Raft was. Critics who sniggered that Daniel Craig was a loser as the new James Bond...
    by Indu Raman at July 10th, 2009 at 01:07 pm
  • Ice, Opium, Amitav Ghosh and some lessons in history
    This isn?t a post on cinema though I have made some tenuous connections. This is a post on history, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, global trade and some personal observations. September, 1833. As the Tuscany, that had set sail from Boston about four months ago, approached the Hooghly and made its way up into Calcutta, there was palpable excitement among the officers of...
    by Subrat at July 12th, 2008 at 02:07 am
  • Film & Cinematography : The Practical Illustrated Media Handbook
    iView Author: Prabhu Jhingran (Lucknow, India) Email : mediamantra2000 [at] gmail [dot] com The Practical Illustrated Media Handbook : Film & Cinematography At the outset, we should not hesitate to admit that in several regions of our country, the standard of imparting media education is far from being satisfactory. The rush of young people towards the media-print...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 7th, 2008 at 04:04 am