Posts Tagged ‘PFCRonin’

  • PFCRonin : The Winner
    PFC Ronin Firstly, a big thank you to the jury for helping PFC out and sticking through all the six rounds of Ronin. Most of the contestants stuck through all the rounds, a big thank you. The contest has given us more ideas that we plan to use for the contest next year. Finally the winners. The PFC Ronin for 2008 is Trasie Stittsworth (Los Angles, USA) Here’s the...
    by oz at February 23rd, 2008 at 08:02 pm
  • Final Round : Saaransh
    Round SIX The movie to be reviewed by the contestants is Saaransh Here are the submitted reviews for Round Six! Contestants are listed in order of their rankings after Round Five. If two or more contestants share the same ranking, they are listed alphabetically. 1. Praveen Gopal Krishnan (Bangalore, India) Saaransh : More than just a gist. Death and love are recurring...
    by oz at February 11th, 2008 at 08:02 pm
  • PFCRonin : Round Five – Droh Kaal
    Round FIVE The movie to be reviewed by the contestants is DROH KAAL Here are the submitted reviews for Round Five! Contestants are listed in order of their rankings after Round Four. If two or more contestants share the same ranking, they are listed alphabetically. 1. Praveen Gopal Krishnan (Bangalore, India) Droh-ed by Droh Kaal It’s hard to imagine what kind...
    by oz at February 4th, 2008 at 07:02 pm
  • PFCRonin: Round Four – The Reviews
    Round Four The movie to be reviewed by the ten contestants is SUNDAY The backup movie review, if the main movie did not release in the city of any contestant was Anukokonda Oka Roju. – All contestants were given a 1000 word count limit to write their reviews within. Here are the submitted reviews for Round Four! Contestants are listed in order of their rankings...
    by oz at January 28th, 2008 at 08:01 pm
  • Halla Bol Review: Conscience, Goregaon-Style!
    [This is a re-posting of a review originally posted elsewhere, on PFC, on January 14, 2008 at 8:04 pm] Street Theatre practitioner, & Cinema-Hero-aspirant, Ashfaque (AjayDevgan) has just managed to get the go-ahead from his father, to chase his heroic dream in Bombay. He meets the ladylove of his life, Sneha (VidyaBalan), in a farewell-walk in the environs of a Goregaoned...
    by thani at January 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
  • PFCRonin : Round Three – The Reviews… and Rankings
    Round Three The movie to be reviewed by the ten contestants is Bombay to Bangkok The backup movie review, if the main movie did not release in the city of any contestant was Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. – All contestants were given a 1000 word count limit to write their reviews within. Here are the submitted reviews for Round Three! Contestants are listed...
    by oz at January 21st, 2008 at 07:01 pm
  • PFCRonin : Round Two – The Reviews
    Round Two The movie to be reviewed by the ten contestants is Halla Bol! The contestants were given an option to review Andrei Rublev, if Halla Bol had not released in their city. – Please note the word count restriction for Round Two was 1000 words. The panel of judges will review these movies and we should have the rankings of the ten contestants after round one...
    by oz at January 14th, 2008 at 08:01 pm
  • PFCRonin : The Ten Contestants
    There were 92 reviews that came in until the window closed. Another few dozen came in after we closed the window and unfortunately these had to be left out of round one. The last two hours before the close saw a flood on submissions. It all came down to 15 top notch reviews and it got tough for PFC’s internal panel to get them down to 10. After much discussion...
    by oz at January 6th, 2008 at 08:01 pm
  • TZP – I Love Aamir, I hate Aamir
    [Sorry for the deliberately late post.] Saw TZP alone on a saturday night. Everyone knows the film is about the relationship between a dyslexic child and his mentor/teacher. No amount of praise is sufficient for the first half. Please take a bow Mr Khan/ Mr Gupte for the in depth research into the mind of a kid. The film instantly set its benchmarks (wrt kid’s understanding)...
    by kartik krishnan at January 5th, 2008 at 05:01 am
  • Taare Zameen Par (2007)
    A tale of an Artist. Starring: Darsheel Safary, Amir Khan. Screenplay by: Amol Gupte. Directed by: Amir Khan. A drop of a red paint falls on a canvas. Then a finger comes and adds some yellow color to that drop. The drop shows some light turbulent mixing of smaller pigments of yellow and red, then that same finger starts mixing those colors. Then appears a creation of...
    by Jateen at December 29th, 2007 at 02:12 am
  • PFCRonin – The Next Generation of Movie Reviewers : Call for Entries
    Game On! Time to play. And play hard. And the playground to battle it out is open to everyone (well… most of you). So without wasting any more time, here’s what PFCRonin is all about… Announcing PFCRonin The contest to search for the best of the best. In movie reviewing. So lets begin… What is PFCRonin? Ronin \Ro”nin”\, n. [Jap. r[=o]-nin,...
    by oz at December 15th, 2007 at 08:12 pm