Posts Tagged ‘film’

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    PANCHAM UNMIXED, a film on R.D.Burman – DVD releasing
    Collector's Edition A feature length-film that evokes awe, admiration and nostalgia … Attempting to explore legendary composer RD Burman’s music, Pancham Unmixed: Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai (an unending journey) takes an incisive look into the composer’s reflective artistry and buoyant-but-also-lonely inner being. Featuring a host of close friends, colleagues and admirers,...
    by Chetan Trivedi at October 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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    Unregulated Independence
    In no other field of work do you witness such a plethora of posturing, a surfeit of self-serving delusion as in the realm of Independent cinema.  There I have said it! After I had been hired, following yet another terrific round of auditions by yet another Independent Producer/Director all set to make their Film Festival Circuit movie, I got the dreaded, rather by now,...
    by Tori Roy at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 pm
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    A FILMMAKER CONVICTED
    iView Author: SHITIZ SRIVASTAVA and SHAMBHAVI MISHRA (Lucknow, India) Email: SRIVASTAVAPROBABLE [at]gmail[dot]com Content : A FILMMAKER CONVICTED Judge: Mr. Filmmaker. You are standing in front of jury today and convicted in several cases. All the cases will be called one by one in front of the jury and your defense in each of them will be called. You are allowed...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 19th, 2009 at 07:04 pm
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    Film Editing in an Ideal World
    Editing is an invisible art form. The less people notice it, the better it is. Unless one is specifically sitting down with a film and watching it to study the way it is cut, a good editor only allows the audience to experience his or her work on a subconscious level. When editors themselves watch a movie for the first time, it is but natural to be observing the cutting...
    by Vijay at March 27th, 2009 at 01:03 am
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    Song-struck I went in…
    It has happened to us filmis before. Many a times. Dumbstruck by a song or two we’ve walked into the CineMandir & came back cheated. It happens to me very frequently. More often than not, the culprit is the Sultan of Sell Out Films – Vishesh Films. They have the knack of grabbing their audience by their musik (usually addressed to the large number of members...
    by Magik at December 18th, 2008 at 07:12 am
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    Everyone’s a Critic – MIFF’ologues Part 01
    Musings from The Melbourne International Film Festival 2008. For those who went ‘Oh! not another diss at the critics!!’ – Surprise!!! It aint! This was the tag line for this years bonanza. In MIFF Exec. Director Richard Moore’s own words “it’s an acknowledgement of the collecive spirit that MIFF engenders in this great southern city”....
    by DPac at August 17th, 2008 at 04:08 am
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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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    Making Short films
    I recently met Manjeet Singh, an author on PFC in Mumbai. We had a long and interesting chat about films and particularly on his feature film project. As he wants to make to make a short film first and wanted to understand the basic differences between a full length feature and a short length feature, so instead of writing only to him, I thought I should share it with...
    by PSji at May 4th, 2008 at 02:05 pm
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    MUMBAI STORIES 1 – Mango Vodkatini
    I was standing at the bar of a famous night spot in Mumbai sipping at Mango Vodkatini watching the young and old, bold and the beautiful, the rich and the famous. So are you back in India? said a suave looking man with greying hair. I recognised him like I recognise most of the rich and famous in Mumbai. I knew all these guys when they weren’t so rich and famous...
    by PSji at April 17th, 2008 at 01:04 am
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