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A little chit, a little chat, a little bit of this & that;meaning news, views & lotsa reviews from an independent journo based in Bombay aka Mumbai
The British comedy “Pride” is set to open Filmfest Hamburg on 25 September. Festival Director Albert Wiederspiel comments: “It’s a real pleasure to be able to open with a film that’s not only hugely relevant on a socio-political level, but also moving, funny and full of twists! It’s a typically British film – in the best tradition of “The Full Monty” or “The Commitments”. And what provides a better counterpoint to the ever-sunny H...
9th Rome Film Festival: Call for Entries
The prestigious 9th Rome Film Festival (FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL FILM DI ROMA) has called for entries in all categories for the 2014 festwhich is scheduled to be held from October 16-25, 2014 in the Italian capital.The Festival will give priority to feature films that are world premieres. Films will also be offered the possibility to participate in The Business Street (October, 17-21),&nb...
DOORDARSHAN TO HAVE SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY SLOT
FINALLY! After years of appeals from doc film-makers, the Indian govt run Doordarshan will telecast award-winning and acclaimed documentaries, short fiction and animation films at prime time. From next month, the films dealing with a range of social issues will be telecast on a special 30 minute slot every Monday said Indian ...
12 Years a Slave’: visceral and riveting
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor,Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o,Paul Giamatti,Alfre Woodard, Taran Killam, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson
Director: Steve McQueen III
Slavery is as old as the hills.The Romans, Assyrian,Babylonians,Egyptians, Jews, Arabs, Scandinavians all kept slaves. In the Far East, the Japanese didn't lag
behind. Nor did India with bonded labour. Slave...
The Mumbai International Film Festival goes National
The Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2014) currently underway at the NCPA has gone national in its 13th edition.
For the first time, it will screen a selection of films from the national and international competition section simultaneously at special MIFF Zones in Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore and Nagpur. In all, 32 hours of short feature,non-feature and animatio...
The Mumbai International Film Festival goes National
The Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2014) currently underway at the NCPA has gone national in its 13th edition.
For the first time, it will screen a selection of films from the national and international competition section simultaneously at special MIFF Zones in Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore and Nagpur. In all, 32 hours of short feature,non-feature and animatio...
LONE SURVIVOR: ode to to bravery & courage
Starring:Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Eric Bana, Jerry Ferrara, Ali Suliman, Yousef Azami
Directors: Peter Berg
Adapted from the memoir "Lone Survivor,The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10" which Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell co-wrote with Brit...
Deadline Extended toOctober 10, 2013! - Viewing Room and Work-in-Progress Lab 2013 at NFDC Film Bazaar 20-24 November Goa
Work-In-Progress Lab
Where a panel of international film experts will mentor your film.
Open to feature length films & documentaries in the rough-cut.
Viewing Room
A special section for films seeking finishing funds, festival placement & world sales.
Open to films of all ge...
Assamese Film: Local Kung Fu
Starring: Kenny Basumatary, Sangeeta Nair, Utkal Hazowary, Bonny Deori
Director Kenny Basumatary
Helmed by novelist and martial arts practitioner Kenny Basumatary who also stars in the film, this action-comedy in Assamese ( and a smattering of Hindi with English subtitles) was screened at last year's Osian Cinefan Festival in Del...
Assamese Film: Local Kung Fu
Starring: Kenny Basumatary, Sangeeta Nair, Utkal Hazowary, Bonny Deori
Director Kenny Basumatary
Helmed by novelist and martial arts practitioner Kenny Basumatary who also stars in the film, this action-comedy in Assamese ( and a smattering of Hindi with English subtitles) was screened at last year's Osian Cinefan Festival in Del...
iffi 2012 : 43rd international film festival of india
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar inaugurated the 43rd International Film Festival of India, IFFI 2012 this evening at a star studded gala featuring The Life of Pi, Academy Award Winning Director Ang Lee’s 3D adaptation of Booker Award winner Yann Martel's masterful novel by the same name.
The ten day extravaganza will celebrate Indian cinema in its hundredth ye...
The Dark Knight Rises
Starring: Christian Bale,Michael Caine,Tom Hardy,Gary Oldman,Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson,Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno Temple, Matthew Modine, Cillian Murphy,Tom Conti
Director: Christopher Nolan
Don't be fooled by posters proclaiming the end of the caped crusader in Christopher Nolan's third (and concluding?) chapter of his Batman trilogy which began with BatMan Begins (2005) followed by The Dark Knight ( 2008) It coul...
The Bourne Legacy
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Oscar Isaac, Stacy Keach, Albert Finney, Scott Glenn, David Strathairn, Joan Allen
Director: Tony Gilroy
Fast-paced and emotionally nuanced, Tony (“Michael Clayton,” “Duplicity”) Gilroy's powerfully staged spy thriller-actioner has little in common with Eric Van Lustbader 's 2004 novel The Bourne Legacy, fourth in the series created by Robert Ludlum. Lustbader shared an agent with Ludlum, and rein...
Award winning Kashmiri film to open 20th Filmfest Hamburg
The 20th edition of Filmfest Hamburg has announced its opening movie:an award winning Indo-American co-production which is set in Kashmir.
The red carpet will be rolled out at the port city's CinemaxX Dammtor next month for the screening of "Valley of Saints" in the presence of its New York-based director Musa Sayeed and Hamburg’s mayor Olaf Scholz. Also lined up to attend are the film's producer Nicholas Bruckma...
Ice Age 4 : Continental Drift
Starring: Ray Romano, Denis
Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage,
Keke Palmer, Josh Gad, Nicki Minaj, Heather Morris, Aziz Ansari, Kunal
Nayyar
Directors: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier
I read on the web that there have been at least four 'Ice Ages' in the Earth's geological past, the first taking place 2.3 billion years ago. Whether all of the species in the Ice Age franchise existed in the sam...
Novelist Anne Rice'S 2005 book Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc)which imagines Jesus at the ages of 7-8 is being made into a film slated for release sometime in 2013.
Rice originally had a movie deal with Good News Holdings, but that fell apart in 2009, and the project was shelved indefinitely. But after watching The Stoning of Soraya M, Rice felt like she'd found the right person to bring her story to the silver screen: Am...
Subversive horror actioner
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Starring:Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Jimmi Simpson,Erin Wasson
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
If Hollywood can churn out
literary-horror mashups like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, why not a
period epic in 3D like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Why ever not
indeed! In this subversive fantasy/horror/actioner directed by Timur
Bekmambetov, vampires hold swa...
A HEARTWARMING TALE OF LIFE & FRIENDSHIP
THE INTOUCHABLES
Starring François Cluzet, Omar Sy,Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Cyril Mendy
Directed & written by Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
There's
a comic scene in this French film about a true life
cross-racial,intercultural friendship where Abdel “Driss” Yasmin (Omar
Sy) the cocky live-in caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, a wealthy
quadriplegic, says Rimsky Korsakov'...
Osian's
Cinefan 2012,Indian Asian and Arab film festival held in association
with the government of Delhi will spotlight 200 films from around 50
countries. Starting from 27th July to the 5th of August, this year's
edition highlights the following:
Freedom of creative & Cultural Expression: This theme will
run through the overall programming of events at the festival (according
to a communique received from Osian's. )
Environmental
Cinema: Showcasing film maki...
GEORGIA US DIOCESE TO MAKE A FORAY INTO FILMMAKING
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Filmfest Hamburg PRESS OFFICE IS BACK
head of office:
Caroline Schmidt-Gross
Tel: +49 40 399 19 00 23,
e-mail: presse@filmfesthamburg.de
schmidtgross@filmfesthamburg.de
assistant: Ulrich Ortlieb
Tel: +49 40 399 19 00 30,
e-mail: ortlieb@filmfesthamburg.de
assistant: Moritz Piehler (from 17th of July)
e-mail: piehler@filmfesthamburg.de
For questions about Filmfest Hamburg they are ava...
'To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.' (Thomas Campbell,1777-1844,Scottish poet)
There they were, Jahnu Barua, Udayan Vajpeyi, MitaVashist,
and Siddharth
Sinha among others,going down memory lane and paying rich tribute to and
sharing their experiences of the acclaimed film-maker and Renaissance
man, Mani Kaul inside the jam-packed Films Division theatre here today,
Painter, musician, teacher and film maker whose movies have been h...
Looking forw to Saif Ali Khan & Deepika Padukone's new movie Cocktail helmed by Homi Adajania who'd directed The Chotta Nawab in Being Cyrus.
Cocktail is a romantic comedy film directed by Adajania under Saif Ali Khan's banner Illuminati Films
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Irrfan Khan and Sally Field
Director: Marc Webb
For some readers, Holden Caulfield, the 16-year-old protagonist of J D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, is the epitome of teenage angst, anger and rebellion. Like many teenagers, Peter (Andrew Garfield) Parker, a solitary high schooler and the alter ego of SpiderMan, does not keep his word. He...
Speaking at FICCI FRAMES 2012 in Mumbai on Friday, Ashok Chawla, Chairman, CCI, urged entertainment and media enterprises and related trade associations to initiate competition compliance programs. Trade bodies could be used for price coordination or market allocation amongst member companies, he cautioned.A competition compliance programme would include imparting awareness and training to employees who may engage themselves or are exposed to anti competitive conducts. It not only reduce...
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