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In the claustrophobic flats which incubate family dysfunction and rage, and the wild beautiful spaces thereabouts, where the urban sprawls out into the country, film-maker Andrea Arnold finds a powerful story of betrayed love -one of three British movies in competition at Cannes this year.
This is a powerfully-acted drama, beautifully photographed by the […]

Guardian News Service
The Cannes film festival got off to the most sublime flying start on Wednesday night with Up, an enchanting animation by Pete Docter from the Disney/Pixar studio, presented in ultra hi-tech digital 3D.
It’s the first time an animation has been chosen to open the festival, and it’s certainly the first time for […]

Nandita Das
“ If the story of ‘Firaaq’ seems ‘one-sided’ to some, that is because the reality of what happened in Gujarat in 2002 is itself skewed”. 
 ‘Firaaq’ is an Urdu word which means both separation and quest. I chose to call my film on the aftermath of the Gujarat riots that, because it reminds us that we […]

Any rags-to-riches story makes one feel good. But the real appeal of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ lies in the fact that the director has not romanticised slum life or poverty in India, nor has he demonised it. His film tells the story of the shanty-towns as it is, without romance or melodrama, and without turning it into […]

V. GANGADHAR

Marina Zenovich’s ‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired’ premiered on HBO channel, U.S., recently to critical acclaim.

A friend of 74-year-old, Paris-based Hollywood filmmaker, Roman Polanski, once observed that “in U.S. he is wanted, in France he is desired.” That sentence sums up the title of the documentary ‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,&# 8217; which premiered […]

SHYAMHARI CHAKRA

A 60-second shoot on the killing of tribals is getting rave reviews.

It is an animated film that pays tribute to the men, women and children who have been shot dead by the police
The film spans just 60 seconds. Yet, it is making waves ever since it was premiered in London last month. While it […]

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ANUJ KUMAR
Vijay Jodha on “The Weeping Apple Tree”.
Jodha’s film portrays how climate change is affecting our lives
If you think climate change is something happening in the distant West or East then this film is for you. If you think it is affecting only the pollution-prone Indian metros then better revisit your opinion […]

MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
 

‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,’ released last week, trades the sands of Egypt for the catacombs of ancient China.

 
The sands of Egypt have given way to the icy cold of the Himalayas and the catacombs of ancient China.
 

Guns ablaze: Rick O’ Connell (Brendan Frasier) is back in business. In that grossly-ignored year, […]

Each film, at the Iran Film Festival, is imagined as a counter-revolution; more than conventional memoir resonating with the experiences of the people, says SOMA BASU 
IT WAS a “first-time-ever” kind of an event but the crowd and its interest showed no signs of waning. Perhaps the unfamiliarity with the rich riverine culture of Iran attracted […]

Panaji (PTI):  ‘Tandoori Love’, directed by Swiss filmmaker Oliver Paulus, which was screened in the Film India Worldwide section of the 39th IFFI here today takes “a loving
look at India with a twinkle in the eye”.
“I love the colourful, spicy world of Bollywood movies. They are so emotional as well. I have been moved to […]