Posts Tagged ‘Documentary’

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    This Is It : It never happened but it did
    The film unravels in its ultra-slick avatar, much of what one would have seen in the concert had it happened. And witnessing it with all the helpings of technology for once it makes sense to have the film out and jam the funk out of the cacophony much of what is media and anti-MJ lobby generated noises about things which would be anything but just to the music he gave...
    by Tushar at October 29th, 2009 at 03:10 am
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    Paragraph 175
    Probably history was after all, meant to be a study of human consciousness in guilt. Of course, there is always a need to realize something valuable out of the past, that a study about the past is after all a human being’s reverse-troubleshooting guide. Probably that’s the reason why there are beautiful pictures of stoic, stiff-lipped people in our high school...
    by Fazil at October 23rd, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    Capitalism: A hate story
    Beware, the bespectacled hat man cometh!! And he brings with him his accoutrement and entourage of cameramen/women to lay bare the festering wound in the dream-nation of USA that spread like gangrene to other parts of this dollar-dependent world. Yes, it’s Michael Moore again, with his giant strides nulled by his almost child-like voice –over. The object of his ire...
    by Aneesh (An Jo) at October 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    Capitalism: A Love Story
    Language: English Director: Michael Moore Writers: Michael Moore ( Screenplay ) Release Date: 2 October 2009 ( U.S.A ) Cast: Michael Moore Producers: Michael Moore, Anne Moore Music: Jeff Gibbs Cinematography: Jayme Roy, Daniel Marracino Film Editing: John Walter, Conor O’Neill, Todd Woody Richman Enter your reviews and rate the movie in the comments below. Movies...
    by PFCdesktop at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) – Review
    Crime Scene: Do Not Cross Written and Directed by: Michael Moore Starring: (unintentionally) Ronald Reagan, George W Bush, Goldman Sachs Executives, Families from foreclosed homes, Workers from a bankrupt factory and Moore (intentionally). “Is the future generation going to remember us like this?” Cut to ‘America’s Funniest’ videos of cats...
    by Jateen at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    Documentary Film Festival: Taj Enlighten Film Society
    We all complain about being fed around with bad cinema. We all talk about change, and how we dont have Fellinis and Truffauts in our world of Dil Bole Haddipa. But many of us talk, and talk, and simply talk. Very few walk the talk, very few run against the stream, and actually catch something worthwhile, something they secretly admire on this website, or many other movie...
    by Jehan Handa at September 26th, 2009 at 01:09 am
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    Open Frame ‘09
    The Public Service Broadcasting Trust, in partnership with WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace), Max Mueller Bhavan and INPUT (INternational PUblic Television) is organising its annual International Film Festival & Forum between September 11 and 17 2009, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The festival focus is on the intricate relationship...
    by Runumi G at August 22nd, 2009 at 06:08 am
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    MIFF entry opens
    Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (M.I.F.F.) call for entries: M.I.F.F. is a biennial event. The 11th Mumbai International Film Festival (M.I.F.F. – 2010) is scheduled to be held from 3rd to 9th February, 2010 in Mumbai. The entry form, rules and regulations for M.I.F.F. – 2010 are available on website www.miffindia.in and...
    by Runumi G at July 3rd, 2009 at 01:07 am
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    The Cove : Trailer
    A chilling documentary on dolphins and the mafia that kills them for profit. Louie Psihoyos, Richard O’Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embark on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan and end up uncovering many secrets.
    by PFCdesktop at June 15th, 2009 at 06:06 pm
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    Masti Bhara Hai Sama- Dattaram reminisces
    #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Today, Dattaram Wadkar...
    by Dr. Mandar V. Bichu at May 31st, 2009 at 12:05 am
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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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    yes madam, sir – LA Premier
    yes madam, sir, the documentary on Kiran Bedi, is the Closing Night Gala film this year at IFFLA - the first documentary chosen as a Gala film at the fest!
    by PFCdesktop at April 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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    Indian docu wins award at Montreal film fest
    Children of the Pyre, a feature documentary shot in Varanasi by Delhi-based filmmaker Rajesh Jala, has won the AUDIENCE AWARD for the Best Feature Documentary at the Montreal World Film Festival. The 74-minute film is about seven young boys who work at the Manikarnika Cremation Grounds on the banks of the Ganga. The film apparently “created a stir at the festival...
    by Runumi G at September 3rd, 2008 at 04:09 am
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    54th National Film Awards Announced
    The 54th National Film Awards for the year 2006 were announced today. The whole awards & entries list is here: http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf. However, some salient features: 1. At last, Soumitra Chatterjee has won a national award for the best actor – for the Bengali film Podokkhep. In 2001, he had won a special jury award for Goutam...
    by Runumi G at June 10th, 2008 at 01:06 am
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    FILM CLUB in Anakapalle?!?!?!
    I just returned to Mumbai after my “INDIA darshan ” as I was filming 6 documentaries for AID INDIA (Association for india’s development -an NGO) along with our very own K K (Kavita Krishna). I must thank her for offering me this opportunity and choosing me over many other volunteers (including her sis) … she was being professional she says !!! Anyway...
    by Medium at May 3rd, 2008 at 01:05 pm
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    The Berlin Wall & Wagah Border
    Supriyo Sen is someone whose name is familiar to only die-hard documentary lovers in India. But make no mistake – he is one young filmmaker in India whom we will hear a lot more about in the years to come. Let’s get introduced to him here on PFC: Sen’s can be expected to be an oft-heard name in next year’s Berlin International Film Festival. His project Wagah,...
    by Runumi G at April 15th, 2008 at 06:04 am
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    Precedent – the curse of Indian Entertainment
    India is set up to be the most creative place on earth. The diversity of its people is now being accentuated by the variety of mindsets jostling with each other for some kind of supremacy. One of the key ingredients of evolution and creativity is cross-pollination, and India is better endowed for that to happen more than any other country in the world. Our entertainment...
    by Jaideep Varma at March 20th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
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    This Manjha comes with a sharp edge
    54. That is the number of films that I and two of my co-jury members watched in just five days at the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation films (MIFF). The festival was held over seven days, from February 3 to 9, but the films in the Indian competition section (in which I served on the critics jury chosen by the Indian chapter...
    by Runumi G at February 25th, 2008 at 04:02 pm
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    My Petty Effort…
    iView Author: Sourav Bhuyan Mumbai, India EMAIL: souravbhuyan[at]gmail[dot]com My Petty Effort….
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2008 at 04:01 am
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    Rs 1 crore prize money in Osian’s Cinefan
    This surely marks a high in the Indian film festival circuit! According to an announcemnt today, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema will give away over Rs 1 Crore (approx. USD 250, 000) in Prize Money for its Competition Sections and Lifetime Achievement Awards. The festival will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in New Delhi from 10-20 July, with its Mumbai...
    by Runumi G at January 16th, 2008 at 06:01 am
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    Reco of the Month – Tropa de Elite
    “In the dark depths of the nether world, for wanderers searching for the ultimate prize clues are everything”. Oh well!! that was as cheesy as it can get.. :-) but couldn’t resist. Cheesiness apart, it is so subliminally true! for all those geeks with cool names stalking the net for music, movie and the like… (porn? Nah… porn is passé..) everything...
    by DPac at December 13th, 2007 at 02:12 am
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    38th IFFI-Goa : Indian Panorama announced
    The Indian Panorama for the 38th IFFI (Goa, Nov 23-Dec 3) has been just announced. Lenin Rajendran’s “Ratri Mazha” (Night Rain) in Malayalam and Samir Chanda’s “Ek Nadir Galpo” (Story of a River) will represent India in the Asian-African-Latin American Competition section. The Panorama section will open with another Malayalam film, Shyamaprasad’s “Ore...
    by Runumi G at October 16th, 2007 at 06:10 am
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    COLUMBUS! COLUMBUS!!
    The United States celebrates October 8th, as Columbus Day with a holiday, few of us are aware however that it is also the Indigenous People’s Day. While we Indians continue to populate the land that is not ours for financial benefits, we could assuage our guilt a little if we made ourselves aware of the stories that are being silenced. In the name of English , in...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at October 10th, 2007 at 09:10 pm
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    Introducing Vibhu ‘Chabi Wali Pocket Watch’ Puri
    In the hype surrounding the controversies relating to the 53rd National Film Awards, the mention of a special jury award to FTII graduate Vibhu Puri’s Chabi Wali Pocket Watch in the Non-Feature category almost went unnoticed. Well, the fact of the matter is, most of the awards in the Non-Feature section go unnoticed by the media these days, as both channels and newspapers...
    by Runumi G at August 20th, 2007 at 09:08 am
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    Khoya Khoya Chand, dil dosti etc : ‘First Look’ Thoughts
    Writing this post as I am going through a glossy book that introduces Sudhir Mishra’s Khoya Khoya Chand and a flier on Manish Tiwari’s directorial debut dil dosti etc, both products of Prakash Jha Productions. Sudhir’s film will release on October 26, and Manish’s on September 28. Manish Tiwari, as the flier introduces him, is a PhD from Cambridge...
    by Runumi G at August 14th, 2007 at 08:08 am
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    are things really changing?
    I was looking forward to watching ‘Jashn-e-Azaadi’, the documentary by Sanjay Kak at Prithvi on the 30th and i get this email today: “Dear Friends, We write to bring to your notice yet another violation of the freedom of expression in India. On Friday, 27 July 2007, a posse of policemen attached to the Dadar police station in Bombay broke into a private...
    by Smriti Vij. at July 28th, 2007 at 06:07 am
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    Voices from the Waters : Day Three & Four
    The festival has concluded and has, like all the festivals, has left a warehouse of memories, experiences and conversations. Before I go into the films of Day Three and Four, I would like to confess that it gets telling on your reactive senses if you try to catch up with all the films, because a festival is lot more about than just films. In this particular one, they...
    by Tushar at June 11th, 2007 at 02:06 pm
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    INTO GREAT SILENCE : Philip Groning
    With this film,Philip Groning has been compared to Vermeer. To Bresson,Trakovsky,Dreyer,Mallik and to the Dardenne bros.Doing away with cinematic trappings to such an extent that the bare soul shines through,he has been able to present the film as the subject itself instead of a ‘representation’.Watching INTO GREAT SILENCE is as good as being physically in...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at May 7th, 2007 at 10:05 am
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    Montage to Planet Earth
    This is probably the best video I’ve played with. Amazing stuff and extraordinary content. I’m talking about “Planet Earth” series. It’s among the best I’ve seen from BBC. “Space” is the other series that I liked. I’m currently watching “Long way round”, “Cosmos”, Adam Curtis’ collection...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
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    Cinema going Digital
    21st Century and we are still stuck with the idea of shooting on celluloid film. Well this is true but things are definitly changing now. If I talk about the feature length motion pictures, they are still shot on film because of numerous reasons(we discuss later in the article), but for the documentary, indie film makers and for few others who are not afraid of experimenting,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 6th, 2007 at 03:03 pm
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