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Devdas I, II, III - But only one
2008-03-29 00:00:00 Smriti Mudgal writes about her favourite film Bimal Roy's Devdas Not often is a theme so compelling that film after film is made on the same. Devdas if I am not mistaken has seven remakes of which I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Author?s Pick: Repulsion (1965)
2008-03-28 00:00:00 Tom Elce writes about his favourite film Roman Polanski's Repulsion Having seen so many wonderful films (and having not seen so many possibly wonderful films), the task of deciding upon five select... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Author , Pick
UTV World Movies to screen 2008 foreign category Oscar Winner The Counterfe
2008-03-27 00:00:00 "platinum collection" of international award winning films to be aired in April UTV World Movies , has announced to screen a special series of international award winning films in April. Titled ?World... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Screen , Oscar , Foreign
Shekhar Kapur to don Minghella mantle
2008-03-27 00:00:00 Shekhar Kapur, the Golden Globe nominated director of films such as Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, is all set complete one of late British director Anthony Minghella?s unfinished... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
?Once? Upon A Time
2008-03-27 00:00:00 Rituparna Chatterjee gets bowled over by the most promising musical in recent times. Every now and then comes along a musical that tries to be more opulent and spectacular than its last predecessor.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Time
Fados: Direction Upstaging The Song and Singer
2008-03-26 00:00:00 Jugu Abraham writes about Spanish director Carlos Saura?s stunning documentary on the Portuguese folk song tradition "Fados" (2007) Seventy-six year young Carlos Saura charmed film lovers with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Song , Singer , Direction
Race: Not Enough to Get Your Hearts Racing
2008-03-25 00:00:00 Race tries too hard to differentiate itself from other Bollywood thrillers /suspense movies that are usually without a strong storyline, writes Parul Goel This year, my Holi celebration consisted of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Racing , Race , Hearts
Griha Pravesh: Warm and Sensuous
2008-03-24 00:00:00 It is a delicate romance where subtlety is the key, writes Smriti Mudgal about Basu Bhattacharya's 1979 film When Basu Bhattacharya makes a movie, his protagonists inevitably have same names - Amar... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Orphanage: Satisfying and Scary
2008-03-23 00:00:00 Tom Elce writes about the scariest film that he has seen this year "The Orphanage " is destined to draw comparison to "The Devil's Backbone," producer Guillermo del Toro's frightening and atmospheric... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Scary , The Orphanage
Trois couleurs: Bleu: Pain of love, desire for liberty
2008-03-22 00:00:00 From the famous Three Colours trilogy by Krzystof Kie?lowski, Ankur Agarwal reviews here Blue. Bleu (in English, Blue), from the Trois Couleurs trilogy of Krzysztof Kie?lowski, is all about the pain... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Love , Liberty , Pain
Be Kind Rewind: Sparks of Comedy Genius
2008-03-22 00:00:00 Be Kind Rewind shows sparks of comedy genius, but sporadically so, writes Justin McGuire In brief: Jerry and Mike erase every video in Mr. Fletcher's video store, a local landmark that is close to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Comedy , Genius , Sparks , Be Kind Rewind
Author?s Pick: Masoom
2008-03-20 00:00:00 Smriti Mudgal writes about her all favourite film Shekhar Kapoor's Masoom (1983) I am glad we got an opportunity to write about our favorite films on DearCinema courtesy Mr. Bikas Mishra, otherwise... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Author , Pick
Farewell, Arthur C. Clarke
2008-03-20 00:00:00 Renowned science fiction writer and co-author of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 Sci-fi masterpiece ?2001: A Space Odyssey? Arthur C. Clarke died early Wednesday. He was 90. According to an AP report he left... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Farewell
Remembering Anthony Minghella
2008-03-19 00:00:00 Tom Elce remembers Anthony Minghella, the academy award winning director who passed away on Tuesday Anthony Minghella, 1954 - 2008 Born there in 1954, Anthony Minghella went from the Isle of Wight to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Remembering
Oscar Winning Director Anthony Minghella dies at 54
2008-03-19 00:00:00 Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella has died aged 54, a spokeswoman for his agent said on Tuesday. Minghella won the Academy Award for best director in 1996 for the wartime romance The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Oscar , Winning , Director , Dies
Vantage Point: Enjoy the Car Chases
2008-03-18 00:00:00 Nothing terribly original, but competent. This actually sums up my feelings of the entire movie, writes Justin McGuire The competent Vantage Point can be boiled down to a complicated kidnapping... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Enjoy , Vantage Point
The Circus of Fellini
2008-03-17 00:00:00 Rituparna Chatterjee explores the genius of Federico Fellini and the unique world he created in his films When Shakespeare wrote, ?All the world?s a stage,? I?m sure he didn?t expect a man called... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Circus
Last Harry Potter film split in two
2008-03-17 00:00:00 In a strategy akin to the Kill Bill films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final Potter book, will be released in two parts. Producer David Heyman finds it is difficult to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Film , Split
Author?s Pick: Favorite Five
2008-03-17 00:00:00 laalit Lobo writes about his all time favorite five films Pick ing your favorite films is like the predicament a child faces when he or she is asked "who do you love more, mummy or papa?" It's a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Author , Favorite
Coen Brothers: What?s Next!
2008-03-15 00:00:00 Would they lose their individuality with greater funding? Would the quality of their productions deteriorate with a wealth or riches? I doubt it. In fact, one can only hope that their sweep of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Brothers
Curtain Closes on 10th MAMI Film Festival
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Gloabal Lifetime Achievement Award to Spanish Director Carlos Saura, Marathi Fim Tingya gets best film award by International Jury, Aishwarya Rai surprises by unannounced appearance The 10th MAMI... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Film , Festival , Film Festival
I served the King of England: Social and Political Satire at Its Best
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Jugu Abraham reviews veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel's 2006 film that won FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin International Film Festival 2007. The works of Czech director Jiri Menzel constitute a tasty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: England , Social , Political , The King , Satire
2008 Student Academy Awards Entry Deadline Approaching
2008-03-13 00:00:00 Beverly Hills, CA ? The deadline for U.S. student filmmakers to submit their films for consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? 35th Student Academy Awards is Tuesday, April... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Academy Awards , Deadline
4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Day: Unforgettable
2008-03-13 00:00:00 Satyen K. Bordoloi reviews Palme d'Or winner at Cannes 2007 Romanian film 4 luni, 3 saptamāni si 2 zile that's getting released in India this weekend The longest take is close to 8 minutes in this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Months , Weeks , Unforgettable
Black and White: How UNBRIGHT!
2008-03-12 00:00:00 You don't want to spoil your day, you don't want to waste your time and you surely have better things to do than watch this film, writes Smriti Mudgal What was Subhash Ghai thinking while making this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: White , Black , Black and White
Vantage Point: A Desperate Gimmick
2008-03-12 00:00:00 "Vantage Point " is disappointing and middle-of-the-road, unable to compell or even thrill cinema audiences who would only be generous to regard it as anything beyond a lazy slap in the face, writes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Desperate , Vantage Point
Terra Sonāmbula: A Lovely Film Based on A Major African Novel
2008-03-10 00:00:00 Jugu Abraham reviews Portuguese director Teresa Prata's Mozambican film "Terra Sonāmbula (Sleepwalking Land)" (2007) Not many filmgoers may be aware of Portuguese director Teresa Prata?s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Film , Major , Lovely , African
Nobody?s perfect: Differently Entertaining
2008-03-09 00:00:00 Bikas Mishra reviews Nobody's Perfect , the film will be screened on UTV World Movies on Sunday, March 9 at 11:00 PM Well, if you think cinema's all about six packs, all-rounded hero, Nobody's Perfect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Entertaining
On Jacques Rivette and His Cinema
2008-03-08 00:00:00 Arun Shankar writes on Jacques Rivette, one of the founders of French New Wave. Ah, the joy of watching a Rivette film is pure exultation for the senses. But contrary to what might be construed,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Andrej Wajda on Katyn, the Opening Film of Mumbai Fest
More articles from this author:2008-03-06 00:00:00 After Katyn ? a political film ? I wanted to return to psychological cinema: Wajda Katyn, the latest film by Polish master Andrej Wajda was premiered at Berlin. Mumbai will witness on Thursday the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Film , Opening , Fest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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