Posts Tagged ‘film critic’

  • When Should Critics Stop Writing Official Film Reviews?
    Take a situation. If a judge wanted to take one of the sides in a proceeding. A Jury member had his own film nominated to be sent to Cannes. Or, the daughter of the promoters of a beauty pageant were to participate for the crown. Unthinkable. Right! Yes, writing this post, I know I am going to attract the wrath of some friends in the industry. One of my earlier posts already...
    by Deepak Singh at November 22nd, 2009 at 07:11 am
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do
    iView Author: Josyula Srikant (Los Angeles, USA) Email: jsrikant [at] gmail.com Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do- (B. Franklin) Movie critics should not be a paid profession. How can one get paid for passing a judgment on someone? It just doesn’t make sense. Someone makes a movie. He puts a lot of work in to it. At least the guy is...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 9th, 2009 at 05:01 pm
  • 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