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Cannes 2008-Out of Competition: Woody Allen?s Catalan kind of love
2008-05-18 00:00:00 Woody Allen presented his latest work from his ?European tour? at Cannes this year. After making three films in the UK, the US filmmaker moved to Catalonia, Spain to shoot Vicky Cristina Barcelona, shown out of competition. Received to mix reactions by the international press, but certainly proof of the ... More About: Love , Competition , Woody , Woody Allen
Jannat: What A Suffer-ring?
2008-05-17 00:00:00 Yasser Usman reviews Kunal Deshmukh's Emraan Hashmi starer Jannat If there is a heaven (Jannat) on earth, it's not here, it's not here, it's not here... These were my thoughts while coming out of the theatre after watching the first day first show of Jannat. Jannat was a film publicized as a ... More About: Ring
Cannes 2008: Thunder rolls in Three Monkeys
2008-05-16 00:00:00 In competition at the Cannes Film Festival for the third time in six years, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan presented Three Monkeys to the press yesterday evening. The work explores in greater depth the aesthetic and social issues that inspired his four previous features. With his dazzling settings, sense of framing ... More About: Thunder , 2008
Cannes 2008: ?What?s essential is to get to the heart of the film?-Sean Pen
2008-05-16 00:00:00 There was media excitement this afternoon on the Croisette at the press conference given by the official competition jury for the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Journalists? attentions were focused on president Sean Penn, who responded well about film at the Q&A session, with a fair share of provocations, but strayed into ... More About: Heart , Essential
Indira: Waking People from Their Slumber!
2008-05-15 00:00:00 G Narasimha Raghavan's entry for DearCinema review contest, a piece on Suhasini's 1996 film Indira (Priyanka) How many films does one get to see where the female protagonist questions the correctness of her own actions? Or, how many films give precedence to individual predilection, rather than pigeonholing female actors in rigid ... More About: People
Cannes?08 Opening: Auteur films and glamour on the red carpet
2008-05-15 00:00:00 Julianne Moore, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, and the members of the jury headed by Sean Penn will this evening lead the procession of stars making their way up the legendary Palace steps at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which proudly maintains its position as the largest ... More About: Films , Red Carpet , Opening , Glamour
U Me Aur Hum: An Overdose of Romance
2008-05-13 00:00:00 Better luck next time Ajay, focus on the script is all I can say, writes Vedavyasa Bhat after watching Ajay Devgan's directorial debut U me and Hum A new born baby, Alzheimer's, friends with troubled marriages, a doting husband. These are the key elements of the 2nd half of the ... More About: Romance , Overdose
Meet the Spartans: A True Spoof Movie
2008-05-13 00:00:00 Vedavyasa Bhat reviews Jason Friedberg's Meet The Spartans Its a spoof. What can you expect from a spoof ? Lots of slapstick comedy, lots of caricaturing of popular stars, films and personalities ? Lots of cheap, crass, gross jokes and lots of sexual references! Meet the Spartans gives you all that and ... More About: Movie , True , Spoof
Cannes 2008: Directors? Fortnight
2008-05-13 00:00:00 French films out in force There are 13 French productions and co-productions on the line-up of the 40th Directors? Fortnight, which kicks off on Thursday as part of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. The six majority French productions in official competition include works by directors who have competed at Cannes on previous ... More About: 2008
Iron Man: An Honest-to-god Superhero
2008-05-11 00:00:00 Anirvan Ghosh reviews Jon Favreau's Iron Man (2008) All within the space of a traditional nuts-and-bolts studio summer picture, the area in which Jon Favreau's Marvel adaptation succeeds most broadly is its barely-hidden subtext deliberately de-politicized in favor of more a more universally guided moral compass. We have the summer's first ... More About: Superhero , Honest
Russian Film Festival in Mumbai
2008-05-10 00:00:00 Russian Culture Centre is organizing a five day film festival in Mumbai . Five contemporary Russian films will be screened at 6.00 p.m. at Cultural Centre of Russia, G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai-36. May 26, 2008 Irony of Fate 2 2007/90 min/ Director: Timur Bekmambetov It's been thirty years since Zhenia Loukashin met Nadia. Both ... More About: Russian , Film , Festival , Film Festival
One Missed Call: A feeling of Deja Vu
2008-05-08 00:00:00 One Missed Call left Vedavyasa Bhat unimpressed A stranger Calls, The Ring and many other suspense/horror flicks usually remade from Japanese hits have caught our imagination or bored us to death at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Feeling , One Missed Call
Iron Man And the League of Extraordinary Superheroes
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Satyen K. Bordoloi comes back impressed with Iron Man and says that Iron Man is a truly unique superhero, one this conflicting world is in desperate need of In a scene clichéd of superhero films, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: League , Extraordinary , Superheroes
3:10 to Yuma: Westerns are Back!
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Vedavyasa Bhat reviews James Mangold's 2007 Russell Crowe and Christian Bale starer 3:10 to Yuma Westerns are back! Absolutely thrilled to have watched this one. Who doesn't love a lovely western... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Back
Summer Interlude
2008-05-05 00:00:00 Ankur Agarwal reviews Swedish master Ingmar Bergman's 1951 film Sommarlek (Summer Interlude) also known as Illicit Interlude and Summerplay To say a simple thing, yet beautifully, yet effectively, to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pather Panchali: The Ballad from Nischindpur
2008-05-04 00:00:00 Abhijit Sarangi writes about Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road) Have you ever looked at a painting and become suddenly happy, Have you ever felt the mad rushes of some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Ballad
The Night of The Sunflowers: A Fascinating Thriller
2008-05-02 00:00:00 Jugu Abraham writes about Spanish director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo?s feature debut ?La noche de los girasoles (The night of the sunflowers)? (2006) Here's a thriller with an interesting title that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Thriller , Night , Sunflowers
Cannes 2008 Competition: Cantet, Mereilles and Gray join Palme d?Or contend
2008-04-30 00:00:00 Programme additions have finally been unveiled for the Official Selection of the 61st Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25). Three new titles have been added to the list of 19 features vying for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Competition , Join , Gray , 2008
Jana Aranya: A Forgotten Classic
2008-04-30 00:00:00 And the winner of week-II of the DearCinema Review Contest is Dr. Balkrishna Nayak, today we present his review of Satyajit Ray's 1976 film Jana Aranya When the Satyajit Ray canon is dissected, ?Jana... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Classic , Forgotten
Gems, A Few of Them
2008-04-29 00:00:00 Ankur Agarwal writes about his favourite films An "Author's Pick" is always a very bright idea and a very bad idea. Bright, since first of all it enables the reader to have some of the reviews which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Gems
Skolimowski to open Directors? Fortnight at 61st Cannes Festival
2008-04-29 00:00:00 Jerzy Skolimowski?s new film Four Nights with Anna will have its world premiere screening in the Directors? Fortnight at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival . This French/Polish... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Open
Requiem for a Dream: Despair and the Refrigerator
2008-04-29 00:00:00 In the series of shortlisted reviews from DearCinema Review Contest, today we present the winner of Week-I, Abhijit Sarangi's review of Requiem for a Dream It was inevitable, the refrigerator will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Despair
Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Gripping
2008-04-27 00:00:00 In the series of shortlisted entries from DearCinema Review Contest, today we publish the joint winner of week I, Anirvan Ghosh's review of Sweeney Todd : The Demon barber of Fleet Street That Tim... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sirf: Terrible Torture
2008-04-27 00:00:00 Sirf almost had a philosophical effect on me. I started wondering why are such films made? writes Aniruddha Basu The price for getting impressive films like Life in a Metro is that viewers will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Torture
Tashan: Mindless, Illogical, Nonsense!!!
2008-04-25 00:00:00 You are most welcome to watch TASHAN but please! please! Do not expect anything meaningful out of it and I promise you'll not be disappointed, writes Yasser Usman Hey! But who asked you to take your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Nonsense , Tashan
Cannes 2008: Un Certain Regard
2008-04-24 00:00:00 At the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14 -25), the Un Certain Regard selection will continue its tradition of exploring the diversity of world cinema. The list of 19 features unveiled... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: 2008
NDTV Lumiere Annouces Acquisition of Finnish Master Aki Kaurismaki?s 10 Tit
2008-04-24 00:00:00 Films to be released in theatres, home video, television and DTH NDTV Lumière, the newcomer into world cinema segment in India has announced its acquisition of the rights to the films by noted... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Master , Acquisition
Cannes 2008: Official Selection Unveiled
2008-04-24 00:00:00 There will be a breath of fresh talent at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), whose official selection was unveiled at midday today in Paris by festival president Gilles Jacob... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Official , Selection , 2008
Haneke?s next to be a German film on education system
2008-04-24 00:00:00 Audiences will have to wait another year to discover the latest project by Austrian master Michael Haneke, who has returned to Europe after directing the US remake of Funny Games.Shooting on his new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Education , Film , System , German
Samsara: Sex in A Kamandal
More articles from this author:2008-04-24 00:00:00 Smriti Mudgal reviews Pan Nalin's 2001 film Samsara It is difficult to write a review on a a film like Samsara which revolves around spirituality because spirituality is something not many have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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