Posts Tagged ‘Mira Nair’

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    Amelia
    Language: English Director : Mira Nair Writers: Ronald Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan ( Screenplay ), Susan Butler, Mary S.Lovell ( Source material ) Release Date: 23 October 2009 ( U.S.A ) Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor Producers: Hilary Swank, Ronald Bass, Ted Waitt, Kevin Hyman, Lydia Pilcher, Don Carmody Music: Gabriel Yared Cinematography: Stuart Drybough Film...
    by PFCdesktop at October 21st, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    I VIEW FILM 2009 in NYC!
    I VIEW FILM Poster Engendered is an annual, New York-based transnational arts and human rights festival that brings together the best in contemporary South Asian cinema, visual arts and performance to explore the complex realities of gender and sexuality in modern South Asia, especially at the intersection of ritual and religion. The festival is designed not only to raise...
    by PFCdesktop at August 24th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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    Salaam Bombay to Slumdog Millionaire
    In 1988, a film centered on Mumbai’s slum-street-kids attracted international attention. It won quite a few awards at major film-festivals and even got an Oscar nomination as the best foreign film. That film was Hollywood-based director Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. 20 years later, British director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire portrayed the same world and did even...
    by Dr. Mandar V. Bichu at April 21st, 2009 at 08:04 pm
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    Satyajit Ray : From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy
    The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be hosting “First Light: Satyajit Ray From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy,” a retrospective of the Indian helmer’s work running April 15-30. Six of the movies will appear in new prints from the Academy Film Archive: “The Expedition,” “The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha,” “The Music Room,” “The Coward and...
    by Rk at April 6th, 2009 at 04:04 pm
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    Being Desi in Hollywood: The struggles of Indo-Americans on the big screen
    iView Author: Roshni Mulchandani (Fremont, California, USA) Email: withheld “Being Desi in Hollywood: The struggles of Indo-Americans on the big screen ” Although Indians have a pretty significant presence in America that only continues to grow, our representation in the media is scarce — and leading characters (if actually given a leading role) are...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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    4 Quick Ones: Short Films about AIDS
    Before we sink our teeth into the film bit, I have to mention this pleasant surprise I had yesterday. I was in Bhubhaneswar for an open quiz along with a couple of my friends…. the quiz was really exciting, and after a nail-biting tie-breaker with a team from Infosys, we won….but it got better. The mild-mannered, soft spoken guy in glasses sitting at the table...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at November 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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    Sivan’s Before The Rains
    Before the Rains is a landscape movie, a sensuous story of love between an English spice exporter and his married Indian housemaid, shot and directed by Santhosh Sivan in God’s own country, Kerala. Deepak Chopra in his recommendation compared the movie to E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” and stories like “In the Bedroom”, “Little...
    by wb at July 10th, 2008 at 03:07 pm
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