Posts Tagged ‘Italian’

  • 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
  • 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
  • Fellini’s La Strada ( The Way )
    Name: SAAD NAWAB (Vadodara, India) Email: saadnawab [at] gmail [dot] com Cinema for the ages – Federico Fellini’s “La Strada (The Way)” Federico Fellini’s “La Strada (The Way)” is a done to death plot of cinema till now. But some films are, well, made to be different, to last. A simpleton girl, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina)...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 25th, 2007 at 04:10 am
  • 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
  • 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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    ‘The Sheltering Sky’ – Painting With Light in the Sahara
    At the heart of the human condition lies a vast emptiness. An emptiness that we try to fill with the things of life….actions,events,people,memories…. Here on the physical plane, the closest manifestation of that endless expanse is the desert, where shamans, mystics and truth seekers of all persuasions have gone since the beginning of time to be one with...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 27th, 2007 at 05:07 pm
  • life, death and coma
    Recently saw two movies. somehow similar. dont move and talk to her. one spanish, the other italian. am not big fan of those hi-fi, sci-fi, mind-blowing, mind-fucking movies. just give me a good story. human drama where characters involve me in such a way that i just want to listen to them, be part of their stories for next 2hours. these two films turn about to be the...
    by Phoenixnu at June 28th, 2007 at 05:06 am
  • Three Days in a Film Class
    (reconstructed from bits on my mind and pages of a scratchpad from a film appreciation workshop I recently attended) It has been 3 days since the workshop got over and I got stuck yet again in the mundane inanities of credit card debit card salary reimbursements short of funds broke and the works. But I rewind to Friday and see this cloudy morning when I am lost somewhere...
    by Tushar at June 27th, 2007 at 02:06 pm
  • 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
  • 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
  • Festival Catch – Che ne sara di noi
    It seems that there is a film festival of some sort happening every week in Miami, this is a city that loves film! Last week was the Italian Film Festival, and as it turns out my hostess in Miami last week is friends with one of the volunteers, who had passes to see Mater Natura and the Mater Natura after party. I was excited to see this movie after reading the blurb on...
    by t! at October 12th, 2006 at 10:10 pm