Posts Tagged ‘French’

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    I Love You: Positively Disturbing Scenes from the Mall
    “So you know the words by heart. You can play the tune blindfolded. You can even wear that black leather jacket, chew a cigar, sharp shoes…. keep your hat on. But the question remains- Can you feel the blues? Do you have the soul for it?” - Toots Sweet Life can be one helluva drag. We all live with that. Or there’s that gun under the pillow. Too messy,...
    by Siddharth Pillai at May 8th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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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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    French Film Festival in Australia
    This Friday evening, I climbed onto the plane to Paris. The take off was so bad that to take off my mind from the uneasy sensation in my stomach and head, I picked up the Air-france magazine. I was turning pages looking at pictures, cursing the pilot and the weather when I stumbled upon advertisements of these two interesting film festivals. Unfortunately the first one...
    by Neeraja at March 23rd, 2008 at 06:03 pm
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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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    Spoorloos: What A Disappearing Act!
    One fine day I noticed that I have around 20-odd films lying with me that I am yet to watch. So, I rummaged through them and randomly started selecting. Hence, over the past three days, I have watched “Turistas’ (USA), followed by ‘Wolf Creek’ (Australia), and “Spoorloos” (Netherlands/France). Films watched in such a random order almost...
    by Rupak Ghosh at December 26th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
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    My two winners from the Official section at Seminci
    Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band’s Visit) by Eran Kolirin Winner of the Best Script Award and Best New Director Award in 2007. The Band’s Visit is a very simple but sweet story about an Egyptian Police band that travels to Israel in order to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab culture centre, but for some reason they are left stranded at the airport. The director...
    by Monica at November 6th, 2007 at 03:11 pm
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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 Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Extraordinary!
    Last Night I watched Julian Schnabel’s latest film “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” at a preview screening for SAG at Raleigh Studios. And I was mesmerized by the film. Since its a film that will not get a very wide distribution, I wanted to do my part to spread the word for everyone to watch this amazing piece of film. Before I get into the film...
    by Mainak at September 21st, 2007 at 03:09 pm
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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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    You need another kind of PARTNER
    In a typical David Dhawan fashion this post does not have any structure and still it makes sense. Hitch released in India and in no time Partner was announced. Derailed arrived on Indian screens and soon The Train got signalled. Cellular got connected to Indian shores and within a month Speed was launched. I am not talking of all the remakes and copies and inspirations...
    by krysh at July 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 am
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    GHOST OF MARQUIS DE SADE HAUNTS BOLLYWOOD
    Ever since SRK has been honoured by French Government with its highest cultural award, my doubts are confirmed that there is French Connection which neither Gene Heckman knew of nor Anees Bazmi could fathom with his stolen French Kiss. And the connection lies in Bollywood’s association with Marquis De Sade. Yes the same guy who propounded that pain and cruelty enhanced...
    by krysh at July 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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    8000 kilometers away from India
    When Shah Rukh Khan came to France for Veer-Zaara, in 2006, there were 2000 people inside the Virgin Megastor on the Champs Elysées waiting for him. And 2000 more waiting outside. The watchmen had to close the door of the store, because the crowd was so eager to see their beloved star that it became dangerous. Women were fainting and girls crying. At the same time,...
    by Oph at July 8th, 2007 at 02:07 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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    L’Enfant
    I thought my first post for PFC should be a brief review of a special film. “L’ Enfant” by the Dardenne brothers is that special film. The story revolves around a young couple, Bruno (Jeremie Renier) and Sonia (Deborah Francois). They’ve just had a baby boy, Jimmy, and the film begins with Sonia looking for Bruno eager to show him his son. While Sonia desperately...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 1st, 2007 at 10:05 pm
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    For cinephiles in Mumbai: National Film Circle
    Received from Worldwide Film Distribution yahoogroup… Please spread the word! Let me take this opportunity to introduce you about me and social activities of our organization. … I am working with a government organization, one of the most important & entertainment department called “NATIONAL FILM CIRCLE” is given to me and I am looking for...
    by striker at April 26th, 2007 at 04:04 pm
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    Valley of Flowers – Rescheduled
    For those of you who attended the screening of Pan Nalin’s Valley Of Flowers, we apologize for the cancellation which took place due to an unforseen projector malfunction. Please note that the screening has been rescheduled now, in the same large theater #10 (no glitches this time!) as follows: Saturday, April 21 – 3:30 p.m. Please make sure you bring your...
    by Vijay at April 19th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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    Tokyo Cowboy (1994) : Western Utopia of East
    Cinema has become a powerful medium and when it was not there, people used to imagine through the books but cinema brings visuals before them and represents story in such a way that it looks real for the time, scenes are moving on screen. But cinema has after effects also and we the audience treat so many things real, shown in the films and start making a world on that...
    by Rk at April 11th, 2007 at 03:04 am
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    Eerie “Innocence”
    The Film: Innocence The Cast: Zoé Auclair, Laisson Lalieux, Astrid Homme, Lea Bridarolli The Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic 2004, Belgium/France/UK The Plot: It’s the story a 6 year old Iris, who finds herself getting out of a coffin and getting in to a boarding school. Set within a woodland forest, the school itself is simultaneously an idyll and a prison. Bianca,...
    by chandnimalik. at February 17th, 2007 at 02:02 am
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    13 Tzameti
    Between being cranky most of the week, recovering from a cold, staying put on the border of irritation and frustration, the Black Friday storm brewing both in front and behind the PFC screen, and tons of other mundane meaningless jobs… I picked up 13 Tzameti as my Wednesday evening movie on my overloaded, praying for a break DVD player. Getting right into it, 13...
    by oz at February 15th, 2007 at 01:02 pm
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    Recent Watch: Pirates, 11:14, Tickets & more…
    Lagging quite behind on my movies seen over the last few weeks… I’m still having trouble assorting my iTalkies queue which doesn’t have the movies I wanna see and instead I’m filling it up with movies “I think are good” and in turn end up being crap… for one I’m highly disappointed with Shankar’s “Boys”...
    by oz at January 8th, 2007 at 11:01 am
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