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FICCI

Media and Entertainment Industry to recover in 2010: FICCI Report

Indian cinema can look forward to a more profitable future ahead. According to a FICCI-KPMG report, after hitting a rough patch in 2009 due to economic slowdown, the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry is poised to start recovery in 2010. Films was a sector which registered a negative growth... Read More

From Blighty With Love

FAME replaces From Blighty With Love screenings with IPL

FAME Cinemas in Mumbai and Bangalore have replaced ‘From Blighty With Love’(FBWL) schedule with Indian Premier League  from 15-18th of March. The list of venues has slightly changed for the 2nd week of the FBWL programme.  BIG Metro Cinema, BIG Cinema (Vashi), BIG R City Cinema (Ghatkopar... Read More

Steven de Souza

Masterclass with Hollywood Screenwriter Steven de Souza at FICCI Frames

Noted Hollywood script writer Steven de Souza will conduct a Master class in Script-writing on the 16th of March at FICCI Frames 2010. The Global Convention on the Business of Entertainment, FICCI Frames 2010 will be held at Hotel Renaissance, Powai from March 16-18. Steven de Souza will also be a... Read More

Jamia Millia Islamia

Application deadline for ‘Performance and Documentary’ course at JBMRC, Jamia extended

The last date of application for the course on ‘Performance and Documentary’ has been extended to the 15th of March. This Special Course on ‘Performance and Documentary’ will be conducted at the James Beveridge Media Resource Centre at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre in Jamia Millia Islamia... Read More

James Cameron

James Cameron in India to speak on The Future of Cinema

Filmmaker James Cameron will deliver a keynote address on the The Future of Cinema at the India Today Conclave 2010 which is being held in New Delhi on March 12-13. He will be discussing The Future of Cinema with Aamir Khan in a session which will be chaired by Aroon Purie, Chairman of the India... Read More

Shyam Benegal

‘Spotlight on Shyam Benegal’ in Belfast Film Festival

Well known Indian film maker Shyam Benegal will be in the “spotlight” at the 10th edition of the Belfast Film Festival, being held from April 15-30 in Belfast, Ireland.  The festival will screen Benegal’s “Zubeidaa” on the 26th of April and “The Making of the Mahatma” on 25th of April.  ... Read More

Walt Disney

Disney India Announces Telugu Project

The Walt Disney Company India, Indian arm of the Hollywood studio, Thursday announced a Telugu movie with leading southern stars Siddharth and Shruti Haasan. A yet to be titled epic fantasy adventure, is the company's first locally developed studio project aimed specifically at southern audiences... Read More

Jafar Panahi

NETPAC calls for the release of Jafar Panahi

Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) has called for the immediate release of the award winning film director, Jafar Panahi from the Tehran prisons. NETPAC is an organization promoting Asian cinema and filmmakers with representatives in 29 countries. NETPAC has urged the leaders... Read More

Mira Nair

Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta among most influential South Asian Women Executives

Film makers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair, and Indian television giant Ekta Kapoor have been listed as most influential South Asian Women Executives in the Media and Entertainment industry. A list of twenty two women who have excelled in media and entertainment has been announced by Korn/Ferry... Read More

Shrek

Tribeca announces 2010 lineup

Tribeca International Film Festival announced the first 34 feature films of the 2010 festival slate. “This year’s competition, the core of the Festival, represents contemporary international filmmaking at its finest, bringing together fresh voices with established storytellers. These stories will... Read More

LATEST REVIEWS

DVD Review: Buster Keaton’s The General

The General maybe Buster Keaton’s best feature film arguably. But what is definite is the fact that the film is a masterpiece, a classic among silent films to the extent that it has received the title of being ‘The #1 silent film of all time’. Buster Keaton was known to have always called The... Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Review: Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland as a text has been under perpetual scrutiny. It lends itself liberally to all sorts of interpretations. From Freudian scholars to drug enthusiasts - they've all dug out sub-textual allusions and hidden references in this Lewis Carroll's classic. Alice falling into the hole... Read More

Khandhar

Khandhar: Touching sensibilities, tugging at our conscience

My friends are amazed that I should rate a Mrinal Sen film among the very best in world cinema. In fact, there are two films of Mrinal-da that I rate very high—Oka oorie katha (a film in Telugu language based on the Munshi Premchand tale Kafan) made in 1977 and Khandhar (made in Hindi language).... Read More

Kavi : Molded to Excellence

“Cricket is for everyone, isn’t it?” explains a poor, ragged teenage boy to his owner as he is asked to do his everyday duties at a brick kiln. He is believed to be the fastest worker and his delusion is added to by his owner’s false hopes for rewards; But only if he does magnanimous tasks within... Read More

DVD Review: Watchmen

Another superhero movie! Watchmen cannot be glorified as one of the most original concepts or as being a completely unique movie. Superhero movies have been tried and tested and done to their death. But Watchmen is not completely unoriginal since it does have a divulging concept from most regular... Read More