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That Girl in Yellow Boots

Anurag's "That Girl in Yellow Boots" at Venice and Toronto

Anurag Kashyap's directorial venture "That Girl in Yellow Boots" will be screened at Toronto and Venice film festivals. The film will be screened out of competition at Venice International Film Festival which will be held from September 1-11. Anurag delighted at the selection, wrote on... Read More

Venice

Amit Dutta's "Nainsukh" at Venice Horizon

After winning a special mention at Venice last year, Amit Dutta returns to the prestigious European festival with his feature film "Nainsukh".  The film is based on the life of 18th-century Indian painter Nainsukh of Guler. Amit's first feature film (an anthology of three short... Read More

Lars Von Trier

Lars Von Trier Begins Shooting His Next "Melancholia"

To mark the beginning of production of his new film Melancholia, Danish director Lars von Trier met the press in Sweden earlier this week. Sitting in front of a packed gathering at Film i Väst’s Trollhättan studios in Western Sweden, where von Trier is shooting for the fourth... Read More

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro fame Ravi Baswani passes away

Ravi Baswani, the renowned actor of Hindi cinema passed away in Shimla on July 27th. He shot to fame with the cult comedy Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro in 1983. The 64 year old actor was scouting for locations for a film in Shimla which he planned to direct when he suffered from a massive cardiac arrest... Read More

Yash Chopra awarded honorary doctorate by University of London

Film director Yash Chopra was awarded an honorary doctorate by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on Friday. This honour was conferred upon him for having made an outstanding contribution to the field of cinema in his six decades of work in the Hindi film industry. The... Read More

Vihir wins ‘German Star of India’ at Indian film fest in Germany

Vihir (The Well) by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni was awarded the ‘German Star of India’ at the seventh edition of ‘Bollywood and beyond’ film festival at Stuttgart, Germany. The awards were given away on Saturday night. “The combination of philosophic element, the expressionist photography and the... Read More

Prof. Satish Bahadur

Film professor and scholar Satish Bahadur passes away

Professor Satish Bahadur, one of the scholars and pioneers of cinema studies in India died last night in Pune following a brief illness. He was 86 years old and is survived by his wife and two children. Prof. Bahadur was responsible for establishing two film societies in Agra. Known as the first... Read More

Berlinale Talent Campus 2011

Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 invites applications

The ninth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus will take place in Hebbel am Ufer Theatre (HAU 1-3) in Berlin Kreuzberg from February 12 – 17, 2011. "Framespotting – Filmmakers positioning themselves" is the thematic focus for the 2011 Talent Campus, which 350 young... Read More

NFDC

NFDC Announces Screenwriters' Lab 2010 Selection

The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has announced the selections for the Screenwriters' Lab 2010. The lab will be organized in collaboration with Binger Film Lab of Amsterdam on the sidelines of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland next month. The following scripts have... Read More

FTII to host International Students’ Film Festival

The Film and Television Institute of India will host an International Students’ Film Festival as a part of its Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations. This festival which will run from September 25-28 will be held in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals, New Delhi. The Festival will... Read More

LATEST REVIEWS

Review: Salt

Few moments into Salt and you realise that its release couldn’t have been more well-timed. Earlier this month US and Russia orchestrated a dramatic spy swap in Vienna, following the much publicised Obama-Medvedev burger diplomacy jig. (I imagine the film’s publicists must be a... Read More

Reader's Review:Inception

‘Reality’ is a subject that thinkers cannot but speculate about and cinema has also followed with its own explorations. Especially in more recent times, with advancements in technology, film directors have been enabled to translate ideas of a more abstract nature into something tangible. Over time... Read More

Tere Bin Laden

Tere Bin Laden: Ha Ha Ha!!!

In a film tradition where comedies rarely evolve into satires, Tere Bin Laden (TBL) signifies a refreshing change.  It does what NATO hasn’t been able to do in 9 years; disarm the numero uno terrorist. It strips off Bin Laden’s carefully crafted persona – conjured, in equal measures, by... Read More

Udaan

Reader's Review: Udaan

Parental pressure, student suicides, truant behavior among the teenagers and such other child-youth-related subjects have been overdone. But Udaan, - the Directorial debut of Vikramaditya Motwani shows us all such Parent’s Dreams versus Child’s Dreams problems in a very subtle manner. The movie... Read More

Inception

Review: Inception

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a... Read More

FEATURED

Goodbye Prof. Satish Bahadur!

Professor Satish Bahadur, 86, one of the leading academicians on cinema studies in India died after a brief illness. Hailing from a family of academicians, Prof. Bahadur had an uneventful early career until he was discovered by Miss Marie Seton, a British expert on adult education. Prof. Bahadur... Read More

Cinematographers Meet to Discuss Digital Cinema

Towards a Better Image : Cinematographers’ combine and Indian Society of Cinematographers Hold Industry Standardization Conference (in collaboration with American Society of Cinematographers and Producers Guild of America)  With the advent of new age ultra High Definition video cameras... Read More

Interview: UK director Mike Leigh on his film Another Year at Cannes

Flanked by the actors from Another Year, presented in competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, UK director Mike Leigh shared with the press a few elements for interpreting his film and his desire to recreate life in all its complexity on screen. Focusing on emotion and vulnerability, Another... Read More

Jérôme Paillard on Film Market at Cannes: trends and highlights for 2010

Delegate General of Film market at 63rd festival de Cannes, Jérôme Paillard gives a glimpse of the trends and highlights of the 2010 edition. How does this edition look in terms of the participants and countries represented?       The final figures are not yet... Read More

We will discover films in a spirit of openness and compassion for directors: Tim Burton

There was media excitement this afternoon on the Croisette at the press conference given by the competition jury at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. President Tim Burton partook in the Q&A session, flanked by the eight other jury members: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Kate Beckinsale, Benicio Del Toro,... Read More