Posts Tagged ‘Cannes’

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    Sharmila, Uma Da Cunha in Cannes juries
    Actress Sharmila Tagore and film critic-programmer Uma Da Cunha will serve in the Cannes Juries this time. And that’s the only Indian representation in the festival, which does not have any Indian entry this year also. Tagore will be in the main competition jury, headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert. Da Cunha will be a member of the Un Certain Regard section...
    by Runumi G at May 4th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Mrinal Sen: Mini retrospective at Cannes is not possible
    A mini retrospective of the famous film maker Mr Mrinal Sen, winner of prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, at Cannes is not possible because most of his representative films are in bad conditions. Padam Bushan Mrinal Sen says “The festival authorities had zeroed in on my Calcutta trilogy films on the situation in the 70s – namely Interview, Calcutta 71 and...
    by Rk at March 17th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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    Soi Cowboy
    I see at least one film everyday. It’s often a tall order and I have to plan in advance to have a supply of good films on hand. I am a member of two video rental shops, a big commercial one and one small art-house place. I also rent from the internet rental house which sends me 2 DVDs by the post, according to my wish list. I watch them and post them back to them...
    by PSji at July 25th, 2008 at 05:07 am
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    India in Cannes: Hum Panchhi Ek Dal Ke in Short Film Corner
    Hum Panchhi Ek Dal Ke. No, not the 1957 film or the 2006 one. It is a short film made this year. Just 9 minutes long, dialogue less, in colour & B&W. Directed by Manoj Srivastava, who is known more in his avatar of a Deputy Director with the Directorate of Film Festivals of Government of India in Delhi, it was one of the Indian films that were entered in the...
    by Runumi G at June 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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    STOP PRESS – Indian film in Cannes!
    I was surprised the other day when I came upon a headline in the New Indian Express (Chennai edition dated Saturday May 17 2008 11:48 IST) which said ‘Cannes honour for Billa’. It said “A year after Veyil, the Tamil movie directed by Vasantha Balan, was officially nominated to the Cannes Film Festival; yet another Tamil movie makes it to the Mecca of movie makers.”...
    by PSji at May 22nd, 2008 at 06:05 am
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    India in Cannes-2
    There are five Indian films in one of the sections of Cannes this time, after all. All in the Short Film Corner section, which is one of the side-bar sections of the festival. This, apart from Vijay Anand’s Guide which is being screened in the Classic section. The five films, to be screened in the Short Film Corner section. are Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke (Of Haves and...
    by Runumi G at May 14th, 2008 at 08:05 am
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    India and Cannes: A Reluctant Courtship
    “India embraces the cinema of the whole world…In a future issue, I shall show why India is the creation of the whole world.” Jean-Luc Godard It has been 14 long years since an Indian Film has made the Competition Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival. And that particular Competition Selection, Shaji Karun’s second feature Swaham (1994), happens to...
    by thani at May 12th, 2008 at 07:05 am
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    India in Cannes
    It’s Cannes time again. And it is time for some of our filmmakers to go and screen their films in the “market”, on space and time bought against hefty sums, outside the festival’s official sections, and then come back and claim through their PR companies – and the ‘anything goes’ media is only too happy to reproduce these claims – that their films have...
    by Runumi G at May 6th, 2008 at 02:05 pm
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    Anand Aur Anand : Raju “Guide” to preach at Cannes
    Some 63-64 years ago late Chetan Anand had won the Grand Prix award at Cannes Film festival and had become the first Indian film maker to get this honour and now it’s the turn of his younger brother, the ever green star Dev Anand, to attend Cannes, where his most outstanding film “Guide” has been selected in the section of classic films. That is a good news as now...
    by Rk at April 9th, 2008 at 03:04 am
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