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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Who is he?
Critically celebrated Malaysian-born Taiwanese filmmaker and writer who has made nine feature films and numerous other short and medium-length films since the late 1980s...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
The ‘q’ in ‘quirky’ probably stands for Quentin Tarantino. This man has a diehard fan following around the globe, not surprising if...
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CANNES,
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Veteran filmmaker Steven Spielberg on Wednesday praised the Cannes Film Festival as a “breath of fresh air” compared with the Oscars, which he likened to a political campaign.
“Th...
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May 11, 2013
Global storyteller Mira Nair talks to Mini Anthikad-Chhibber on the making of The Reluctant Fundamentalist that releases on May 17
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May 9, 2013
The Prestige Christopher Nolan
Although the Batman trilogy overshadows Nolan’s previous works, The Prestige is by far, one of the most brilliant works by this exce...
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April 20, 2013
WHO is he?
German-born documentary filmmaker and installation artist of Indian origin who has made close to a hundred works in a career spanning five decades. As a student, the lef...
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March 23, 2013
Stories of resilience dominated the first International Film Festival on Women in Afghanistan.
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March 9, 2013
Mini Anthikad-Chhibber at Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre during a rewarding detour from the Berlinale.
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March 7, 2013
Scenarist and film critic Deedi Damodaran chooses five films that she feels were fair in portraying the gender issue.
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Washington,
February 25, 2013
Academy’s hat-tip to movies centred on U.S. political-military triumphalism
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LOS ANGELES,
February 25, 2013
Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence have won the Academy Awards for best actor and best actress respectively for their authentic performances in ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Silver Linings Playbook’.
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LOS ANGELES,
February 25, 2013
Ang Lee has won the Academy Award for best director for his “Life of Pi.” It’s the second Oscar for Lee, who won in 2005 for “Brokeback Mountain.” The Taiwanese director was also nominat...
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Washington,
February 23, 2013
The three movies favoured to win the Best Film award focus entirely on United States’ military might
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May 11, 2013
Who is he?
Thai writer, producer and filmmaker who has made six feature films and several short films and installations since the late 1990s. His features generally tend to be elli...
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May 4, 2013
Who is he?
Russian-born director of immensely inventive animation films who made over 60 pictures between the first and the sixth decades of last century. Starewicz was a stop-moti...
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Hyderabad,
March 29, 2013
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur talks about ‘Celluloid Man’, a fitting tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema and P.K. Nair who helped archive rare, forgotten films
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March 9, 2013
Who is she?
French film director, writer and actress, who has made around 10 feature films since her debut Chocolat (1988), which was selected for competition in the Cannes...
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NEW DELHI,
March 8, 2013
The 9th edition of the Asian Women’s Film Festival was held recently
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February 25, 2013
The Oscars 2013 had its share of suspense, surprises and upsets
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Tehran,
February 25, 2013
Iran’s state media said Monday the Oscar for best film awarded to the hostage drama Argo was politically motivated. The news agencies Mehr and Fars said the political dimension of the prize...
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Los Angeles,
February 25, 2013
Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller Argo rode to victory at the
85th Academy Awards as i...
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LOS ANGELES,
February 25, 2013
Christoph Waltz really owes Quentin Tarantino. Waltz won his second supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for a Tarantino film, this time as a genteel bounty hunter in the slave-revenge saga “D...
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February 16, 2013
In the first of a two-part report from Berlin, K. Hariharan wonders if the virtual paths of art and commerce will ever meet.
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