HONG KONG (AP): A new movie backed by the Chinese government about Japanese atrocities during the World War II-era “Nanking Massacre” earned a strong $10 million in its opening week, its director said on Monday.
“City of Life and Death” deals with the sensitive topic of the 1937 rampage in the eastern city now known as Nanjing. […]

GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE
Economy and migration of studio work elsewhere put many LA staffout of a job
Bruce McCleery hardly had a day out of work in 25 years. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after lighting technicians, he worked on big-budget movies like Independence Day and Mission Impossible III. He travelled the world as part of an […]

New Delhi (PTI): Tamil movie “Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai”, the moving story of a director desperately trying to make his first feature film, has been honoured at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Directed by Chennai-based Krishnan Seshadri Gomatam, the film won the award for the ‘Best Drama Feature’ in the ‘Best Feature […]

London (IANS): The official line-up of films competing for the top honour Palme d`Or at the prestigious 62nd Cannes Film Festival was announced on Thursday, and once again films from India, the world’s largest film producing nation, have found no place.
A total of 20 films from different countries are lined-up to compete at the 12-day […]

London: Classic cartoon flicks have been entertaining kids for decades. Now, psychologists have claimed that these films are giving children the “wrong message” about how to deal with “stranger danger”.
A new study by Carleton University has claimed that classic cartoon films contain scenes in which children receive “unwanted personal contact” or “threatening approaches” from adults, […]

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 […]

Staff Reporter
Chennai: “I don’t understand foreign languages, but I always had a flair for languages, and my father used to make me watch movies. So, I follow the movie seeing the sub-title.”
That was singer Mahati, one of the special invitees, getting nostalgic about how she got acquainted with international films, at the opening of the […]

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 […]

Lucknow (PTI): As many as 160 movies from 27 countries will be screened during the first international children’s film festival here, which will be attended by eight-year-old Pinki, the star of the Oscar-winning documentary Smile Pinki.
“For the first time an international film festival specifically for children is being organised in the city, in which the […]