Posts Tagged ‘Japanese’

  • 16
    Last Life in the Universe: Love and Longing in Dimension Blue
    Miles from home, miles to go. Miles spent dozing in uncomfortable recline, in queues, eating out of sterile plastic containers, shuffling among strange faces in strange places, eyes open just till the laptop battery holds through. Continuous transit through a hyperreality where the sun never shines enough to out-bright the plastic white daze of the corridors of passage....
    by Siddharth Pillai at April 2nd, 2008 at 02:04 am
  • 9
    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
  • 18
    Ikiru Ka Anand
    First of all let me tell you I am not a film reviewer.. I don’t want to be one as I believe all the reviewers have their own biases and preferences like any other audience watching the film. I also believe most of the great films have boring reviews and sometimes the greatness of a film is beyond the reach for many of the reviewers.. of course all badly made films provide...
    by Pavan Jha at September 30th, 2007 at 03:09 pm
  • 2
    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
  • 7
    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
  • 5
    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
  • 8
    The Taste of Tea
    I enjoy slow movies on lazy Sunday afternoons. It’s that time of the weekend when the partying or other tiring activities of Friday evening and Saturday have just left you craving for some quiet, slow time. You wake up late, shower, eat a full lunch, and stretch out on the couch around 2:30 pm, and turn on the TV, and turn the volume down to a calm level. Next Sunday,...
    by Vijay at July 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
  • 51
    Japan-o-rama
    I recently had a great opportunity to view a three episode BBC series by eminent journalist Jonathan Ross on the Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong cinema. The episode on the Japanese cinema started with “how it has started losing its sheen in the recent years,” which got me thinking and is the reason of this article. Now, I know there are a lot of people here...
    by Pankaj Johar at July 13th, 2007 at 04:07 am
  • 5
    Hazard – No Horror Here
    I am at the Hole in the Head Film Festival, the horror offshoot of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. I am here because a movie I worked on is premiering here tomorrow night (tonight), but I made my friends drive up a day earlier than expected so I can see some movies, and one film in particular – Hazard. The newest film by Sion Sono, the genius behind Jisatsu...
    by t! at June 9th, 2007 at 02:06 am
  • 3
    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
  • 13
    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
  • 23
    Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles – Program Announcement
    In celebration of its fifth anniversary, IFFLA has added a day making it a 6-day long event that runs April 17-22, 2007 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Hollywood. Tickets are now on sale online at www.arclightcinemas.com or at the ArcLight Hollywood box office. For more information on how to attend the festival, please visit www.indianfilmfestival.org. Check...
    by Vijay at March 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am
  • 22
    Post Mortem Report on Seven Samurai
    Saw Seven Samurai Last Night, It was one hell of piece of art. After watching it I realized why people call Akira Kurasowa as one of the best in cinema history. Ok all praises apart after 30 minutes into the movie I couldn’t resist my self comparing with our own Sholay. When ever a new character was introduced I compared it with sholay’s character. Here is short synopsis: The...
    by Varun at March 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
  • 9
    Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low
    There are few things I hate worse than being patronized. I am smart. I am educated. I can understand nuance and gray areas. And, there are few things that bother me more than wasting 90+ minutes of my life watching a movie that patronizes me, that doesn’t think I am intelligent enough or knowledgeable enough to understand basic human emotion or not-so basic human motivations,...
    by t! at November 26th, 2006 at 08:11 am
  • 13
    Akira kurosawa
    Akira kurosawa’s RAN : Waah-miyan- shake-sphere – his best Warning: This is a looong review … Spoilers and dialogues galore!!! There’s something about Shakespeare’s plays… his tragedies in particular which rivet you and grab your attention. Be it the two adaptations by Vishal bhardwaj (Omkara- Othello, Maqbool- Macbeth) or kurosawa’s Ran (King Lear) and...
    by kartik krishnan at October 28th, 2006 at 02:10 am
  • 10
    Don & Kurosawa
    I never really thought I would utter these two words in the same breath. This is something I have been thinking about for a while and discussing with friends, so just thought I’d put it out there for you guys to weigh in on as well. Chandra Barot & Salim-Javed’s “Don” and Akira Kurosawa’s epic masterpiece “Kagemusha” (The Shadow...
    by Vijay at October 26th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Page 1 of 11