The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (KSCA) has released a list of nine classic movies to help the public choose the movie to be screened at Manaveeyam Veedhi on Sunday.
The masterworks of filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa, and Alain Resnais figure on the list. The films have Malayalam subtitles.
The list
The list, posted on the KSCA’s official Facebook page, has Battleship Potemkin by Eisenstein, Wild Strawberries by Bergman, Hiroshima Mon Amour by Resnais, Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzej Wajda, Aguirre, The Wrath of God by Herzog, The Great Dictator by Chaplin, Knife in the Water by Roman Polanski, La Strada by Fellini, and Seven Samurai by Kurosawa. The film with receives the most number of comments will be screened.
The KSCA’s initiative is part of a wider effort to stimulate appetite for international films ahead of the 20th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) which will be conducted from December 4 to 11. KSCA chairman Rajeev Nath, while addressing a gathering at the first such public viewing (of Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves ), last Sunday, had said the screening of the classics were aimed at broadening better public appreciation of timeless cinema.
