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Utpal Borpujari
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on Jan 25 2008 @ 1:23 am -
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Movies, News & Gossip, Chinese, English - Other, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin America, Medium, Persian, Spanish, Sweden, Television
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 minus Hollywood).
Suddenly, Indian companies have started taking marketing rights for a large number of world cinema and at least two dedicated channels to telecast cinema of that kind are readying for launch. And, trust the French to do it - more and more French films are being screened, at least in Delhi and Mumbai, screened mostly free of cost through tie ups with multiplex chains, to introduce the casual moviegoer to the variety that rides with their cinema (hope other countries would also have as …









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Set in 1950 Korea, it tells the story of two brothers who are forcefully drafted to fight in the Korean war. When Lee jin-Seouk is taken by South Korean forces to serve, the protective elder brother Lee jin-Tae follows an unsuccessful attempt to bring him back by asking to serve alongside his inexperienced sibling, all in an effort to sheild him. As war thickens and blood and guts spill from all directions, jin-Tae realizes that he needs to find a way to get his brother out of the battlefield, and back home to their mother. He risks his life, volunteering for the riskiest of missions, in an effort to impress …