Posts Tagged ‘English – Other’

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    Don can easily be caught at his blog now !
    Don ka Intzaar to 11 mulkon kee police kar rahee hai par Don ko pakadna mushkil hee nahin namumkin bhee hai Amitabh Bachchan , the owner of baritone, had won the hearts of the audiences when he had delivered above mentioned dialogue in old Don, using pauses at most appropriate places to make it more impressive . And this is not about his screen persona Don in the film,...
    by Rk at April 18th, 2008 at 06:04 am
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    When Scorcese came to Bollywood
    Loong Loong ago Martin Scorcese before he became the ‘rage’ that he did eventually became, he came to bollywood. He had a terrible hand written script of what was to be called as Mumbai Taxi. It was a half decent script, and was based on the taxidrivers in mumbai..the haftawaalas, the traffic police constables, the prostitutes on the streets of mumbai, the...
    by kartik krishnan at April 16th, 2008 at 03:04 am
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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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    My Blueberry Nightmares
    Awful Awful Awful. Beyond terrible. This is going to be a quick and dirty post. At 90 mins, the movie feels padded, what with half the movie shot at 48fps. Kar Wai explores new lows in acting, exposition, storylessness, general wankery, and the ancient philosophy of keys and doors. Also, Jude Law douchebaggery is really explored. Norah, don’t act. Ever. Again. Jude...
    by dabba at April 7th, 2008 at 08:04 am
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    2008
    The following are, in no particular order, a few hopefully good super hero movies that I anticipate will make my/our mainstream movie watching experience worth its buck! HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY Guillermo del Toro returns, with the dark horse of this year’s comic-book movie, bolder bigger and better than its 2004 predecessor, to give the other superheroes a run...
    by wb at April 1st, 2008 at 02:04 am
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    Shantaram: And OSCAR may go to Amitabh Bachchan!
    Shantaram may bring an OSCAR to Amitabh Bachchan in the category of best supporting actor. If Khader Bhai’s character is given same importance in the film as it has been given by Gregory David Roberts in his book then this character provides a solid ground to AB to play the role in a wonderful manner and perhaps he grabs an OSCAR for this powerful supporting role. ...
    by Rk at March 26th, 2008 at 05:03 am
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    The Gumshoe – my short screenplay
    In 2006, my Indian co-worker’s 8 year old son came into the office for “bring your kids to work day.” The boy was precocious, and for some reason I took a liking to him (may be I was projecting my id). I conjured up an image of him in a chocolate brown Fedora, and brown overcoat with a magnifying lens in his hand. He was solving some kind of case. The...
    by dabba at March 23rd, 2008 at 08:03 pm
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    Two Films In Search Of An Audience
    It is a pleasure to reach out to genuine lovers of cinema through PFC. If our cinema had the same vitality and the independence of thought that PFC displays every day, perhaps it would speak for our times much more meaningfully than it does now. My reason for writing for PFC is to interact and listen to genuine cinema viewers and enrich myself, besides sharing my experiences...
    by Jaideep Varma at February 9th, 2008 at 03:02 am
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    World Cinema coming home to us
    Seems times are changing at last – for the better, and fast. After all these years of scouring the film festivals and pirated DVD shops (unless we have deep pockets to splurge on the highly-priced original DVDs of foreign films), it seems 2008 is bringing some happy tidings for us, the lovers of world cinema (that is, anything that comes from outside the country...
    by Runumi G at January 25th, 2008 at 01:01 am
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    3:10 to Yuma: What Westerns Have Become
    iView Author: SARANG (Honolulu, USA) E-mail: Withheld 3:10 to Yuma: What Westerns Have Become 3:10 to YUMA (3TY) was the movie I was eagerly waiting to watch last year. After all it is a western. I have always had a ‘love-affair’ with westerns. From my parents to my relatives, all always had praises for them. DJango, was the first western I saw ever. I still...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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    Simpson Withdrawals
    Life officially stinks. I really mean it. The day job I do is hardly an enriching experience and the only thing other than my passions for making movies that kept me getting up every working day was the fact that there used to be a sitcom line-up in the morning in Star World(English Channel in India and part of Murdoch’s empire). The thing I loved about this line-up...
    by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at January 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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    2007 Academy Award Nominations
    Its Oscar time again and most of the usual suspects have gone through as expected. A few do raise eyebrows for their inclusions in some major categories while some big omissions in the best picture/screenplay categories will be up for debate. Here’s how the final list looks… Performance by an actor in a leading role George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner...
    by ravptor at January 22nd, 2008 at 09:01 am
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    Agantuk : Director of Directors “Satyajit Ray” says Adieu to the audience !
    “Agantuk” is the last “cinematic discourse” of the Satyajit Ray, who got realisation in the medium of cinema. His cinema is never superficial and even his lightest film carries several levels of undertone. He was a fantastic writer also and its not a somewhat strange fact that he created his cinema on the pattern of a good literature only. The satisfaction and...
    by Rk at January 21st, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    Goodfellas – scorcese teaches cinema
    I have a love-hate relationship with mob movies. At a level they are cool, but some kind of uncmfortable feel is always there when a mob movie ends. The connection is always not made like I would at the end of a movie like say Parenthood for example. The reason being a constant feeling of separation from the layer of society at which these movies are based on. Me being...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 3rd, 2008 at 09:01 am
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    A Mighty Heart: A Politically Correct Look into Pakistan
    Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart can be an illuminating study of how a director can use his talent to project his worldview and create something subtly different from his source material, and, also how cinema today is dominated by commercial concerns and often gets beaten into flatter and sanitized versions from what was held as its potential. Michael Winterbottom...
    by Padmaja Thakore at December 30th, 2007 at 08:12 am
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    Aaron Sorkin: The Master Screen-Writer.
    “A film is a one night stand but television is a love affair”. That’s Aaron Sorkin when quizzed why he chose to make a television series after having written brilliant movies like A Few Good Men and The American president. This coming from a man who wrote the scene of poetic outburst of Michael J. Fox in the oval office when debating how it is important for a man...
    by ravptor at December 15th, 2007 at 06:12 pm
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    KHOYA KHOYA PRINT
    Methinks I have to start a coconut breaking session each time I venture out into the snow/rain/sleet and thus dangerous roads for a hat-kay movie. It happened with No Smoking and it has happened yet again. Rahu Kalam emo? ‘Iron Leg’ anukunta. The Gults will get that but you get the gist right? So I finish a rushed edit with Amina and offer her Pakistan-say-visiting ...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at December 9th, 2007 at 01:12 pm
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    Crossover, Whatever….
    Hi PFCians. Can you please help me resolve this dilemma? I am often left wondering – What is a ‘crossover’ film? This came to my mind recently, when “Loins of Punjab” got released and many reviews described it as a ‘crossover’ film. If we go by the commonly-held perception (created by the media that is ever-eager to create a label), a crossover film usually...
    by Runumi G at November 9th, 2007 at 03:11 pm
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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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    Browntown – Part 2: Trailer + NY premiere
    Continued from Part 1… Having bagged the role, it was now time for me to flesh out the character. The producers and the director had already decided on the look for Ravichandran – they wanted the quintessential elements of a Kollywood hero: the big hair, the mustache, the paunch, the south yindian yenglish accent. If Mohanlal had been in their budget, he...
    by striker at October 4th, 2007 at 06:10 am
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    It’s all about faith
    iView Author: APOORVA GAURAV (Bangalore, India) EMAIL: apoorvagaurav[at] gmail dot com It’s all about faith All the chaos surrounding the Indian entry for Oscars has left me puzzled. I hadn’t seen either of the films causing the controversy but still was amazed at the confidence of Ms. Bhavna Talwar for calling the jury biased. I am a big fan of Pankaj Kapoor...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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    Browntown – Part 1: The Audition
    I’m not a huge fan of auditions, but when you’re past the point of remembering how many you’ve been to, you learn how to deal with them. Usually, the character description within the casting notices help me get into the right mindset for the role, but one too many times, I’ve fallen into the trap of over-preparing and end up losing the spontaneity...
    by striker at October 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    Rome 2007 Line-Up Announced
    The second Rome Film Fest, which runs Oct 18-27, has announced its full programme. World premieres in the Cinema 2007 programme include: * La Recta Provincia (Raul Ruiz) * Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) * August Rush (Kirsten Sheridan) * Hafez (Abolfazl Jalili) * L’Abbuffata (Mimmo Calopresti) * And The Spring Comes (Chang Wei...
    by Vijay at September 27th, 2007 at 09:09 am
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    The Hangman
    During the 5-day NY guerrilla shoot of Nishikanth’s “Mumbai Meri Jaan” and the location hunt for Nishi’s next, our Guide/Project Manager/Production Incharge was a creative genius called Vishal Bhandari and like many reading this, I never ever have heard of him. A graduate of NY Film Academy, un-credited writer and production maverick of the NY shoot of Vettiyadu...
    by ravptor at September 23rd, 2007 at 11:09 am
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    5 great cities in movies
    There are times when a city assumes character in a film – its streets, the restless masses, the landmarks and monuments all speak in a distinct common patois – and it becomes inexorably linked with the narrative. This article is tribute to five such cities (and tips its hat to two other) that have inspired generations of film-makers. I watched Manhattan (Woody Allen,...
    by Subrat at September 22nd, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2008 Call for Entries
    IFFLA 2008 Announces Call for Entries The Sixth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narrative, documentary, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format. IFFLA will run April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes...
    by Vijay at September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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    Training Day
    I love Denzel Washington! Great performer and actor, has a fantastic stage presence. “Remember the Titans”, “Malcolm X”, “Philadelphia”, the list goes on and on and then there was “Training Day”. Whoa…what a performance, Academy award,Best Actor. But wait a minute, he plays a bad guy, rogue cop!, would I want to see...
    by Cliff at September 11th, 2007 at 01:09 pm
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    OUT OF AFRICA – TRIBUTE TO OUSMANE SEMBENE
    In the ensuing cacophony of losing two great giants of world cinema [ Antonioni and Bergman ] and deservedly so, we seem to have forgotten that another one passed away very quietly just a few moons ago. On June 9th 2007 the first ever African Director to have made a feature film left us bereft of an authentic African voice. Sembene had been on the jury of various prestigious...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at September 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 am
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    Neville Tuli’s ‘vision’ about Cinefan
    Recently I had interviewed Neville Tuli, the founder chairman of the Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art, which organizes the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian (& Arab – from this year) Cinema, in New Delhi. While some parts of the interview have been carried in my paper Deccan Herald, I am reproducing the whole text of the interview for PFC readers, for...
    by Runumi G at August 27th, 2007 at 08:08 am
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    Benegal gets Dada Saheb Phalke
    Hi friends. One great news – Shyam Benegal has been chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He truly deserves it for all the great films he has made, though personally I feel he has slowed down a lot bit in recent years. Here’s the official announcement: Shri Shyam Benegal one of the pioneers of new Indian Cinema has been selected for the prestigious Dadasaheb...
    by Runumi G at August 8th, 2007 at 01:08 am
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