A full 700 years after his creation, WALL•E (Ben Burtt) is still cleaning up humanity’s mess on Earth, sorting and organising towers of garbage that stand alongside the skyscrapers of the long-abandoned planet. The humans themselves have become sloth-like in their dependance on technology, vegetating away on a spacecraft waiting for that time to come when a return to Earth is possible.

It was easy for Sir Richard Attenborough to make Gandhi (1982)-he was merely narrating a story of a great individual who walked on this planet not so long ago. Comparatively, it must have been a lot tougher for director Feroz Abbas Khan making his debut as a filmmaker to make Gandhi, my father, pitting a shriveled anti-hero against an international hero, both of whom were historically real individuals, and ironically father and son.

National award winner director Nishikant Kamat, returns to theatres this time with his highly anticipated film “Mumbai Meri Jaan”, a film around the devastating Mumbai train bomb blasts.

Tom Elce reviews director Bharat Nalluri’s film that’s releasing this Friday in India.

Upon being being dismissed from her job, destitute ex-governess Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) goes on the hunt for new employment. Penniless and desperately needing work, she comes into contact with aspiring actress/lounge singer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), a young woman juggling her ambitions alongside a trio of different men.

Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s film “Arunodaya” (Sunrise) has been selected for Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market. Organized on the sidelines of Pusan International Film Festival in the South Korean port city of Busan, PPP provides a platform to selected filmmakers to find co producers and financiers for their films.

This has to be the best film of the year 2007. That it wasn’t nominated at the Academy Awards is their loss. Just a reflection of the fact that award shows are at best, only indicators of good cinema; they cannot sit in judgment over what is or what is not the best.

Enrique Rivero’s Parque vía is the first Mexican to win the Grand Prize at the recently concluded Locarno International Film Festival. The film also picked up the International Film Critics’ Federation (Fipresci) Prize. The 61st Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16) - headed by artistic director Fréédéric Maire - announced its prize-winners on Saturday.

Filmmakers openly acknowledge the contribution to world cinema by Russian directors as monumental. Eisenstein, along with his peers, introduced the concept of “montage” in film editing, where two or more scenes in sequence provide symbiotic intellectual value for the viewer. Today this is the grammar that makes all our film viewing interesting.

One would expect Eisenstein to have been lionized in his own country. Unfortunately, in Stalin’s USSR, even Eisenstein had to face the brunt of state censorship.