Venice (PTI): Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra’s ‘Delhi6′ and Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev D’ are among the four Indian movies that are a part of the line-up announced on Thursday for the 66th Venice Film Festival.
The films are not a part of the prestigious ‘Competition Category’ of the festival, the oldest in the world, but will play in […]
New Delhi (IANS): Artist and acclaimed short filmmaker K.M. Madhusudhanan, who has directed award-winning Malayalam film “Bioscope”, says that regional cinema is now getting noticed because Bollywood is going through a slump.
“Bollywood has reached stagnancy over the years with repetitive story lines, songs, stunts, etc. Even the so-called ‘new films’ are predictable. As a result, […]
Cannes (PTI): Austrian director Michael Haneke’s somber black-and-white drama ‘The White Ribbon’, a chilling account of a German village in the build-up to World War I walked away with the Palme d’Or for the Best Film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Haneke beat off competition from French director Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’, Jane Campion’s period […]
Paris (PTI): Although the official line-up for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be announced here later this month, Indian entries are missing from the list of this year’s Cannes probables.
The Indian flavour permeated this year’s Academy awards with ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ winning eight Oscars and documentary ‘Smile Pinki’ bagging another trophy but there seems to […]
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The Last American Freak Show’s director Richard Butchins believes the reason his film has met such an opposition is not because society has moved on from exploitation, but because we are more prone to it than ever.
Dame Demure is a dwarf who chews glass. Peg-Leg has a prosthetic limb, and atorso festooned with lesions. […]
SUDHISH KAMATH
“The first lesson we must learn from Hollywood: They take pictures without fighting among themselves,” joked Rahman, trying to ease the tension on his delayed entry, with a hundred lensmen jostling to get a clear shot of him and his gold-plated britannium babies.
“Ok, I am going to leave then. Save my face and don’t […]
Chennai (PTI): Double Oscar winner A R Rahman on Thursday dedicated the golden statuettes he won for his score in “Slumdog Millionaire” to Indian artistes and their aspirations and said he was only their representative.
“This is an award for Indian artistes and their aspirations. I am their representative,” Rahman told reporters here.
Expressing confidence in Indian […]
Los Angeles (PTI): ‘Smile Pinki’, the tale of an Uttar Pradesh girl and her fight against the social stigma of a cleft-lip, won the Oscar award for Best Documentary (Short).
Directed by Emmy-award winning Megan Mylan, the film was shot in Mirzapur and Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh.
Elated at the victory, Mylan thanked the eight-year- old girl, […]
Los Angeles (PTI): Slumdog Millionaire, undoubtedly has brought the best out of Kerala-born sound engineer Resul Pookutty besides helping him win an Oscar.
Pookutty has also won a BAFTA and a Cinema Audio Society (CAS) award for best
sound mixing for the film. Hailing from a small village of Vilakkupara in Kerala’s Kollam
district which didn’t have electricity, […]
Young stars of “Slumdog Millionaire” arrive for the 81st Academy Awards on Sunday, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. From left front are Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Rubina Ali, and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar. From left rear are Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar and Tanay Hemant Chheda. Photo: AP
Los Angeles (PTI): For the team of […]