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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 […]

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 […]

 
Sudhish Kamath
Storyline: A girl sold to a geisha house becomes a slave and rises to become the most celebrated geisha.
The basics first: What or who is geisha? “Geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty.
The very word […]