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An incomplete round-up of movie news, features & views from an independent journo based in Mumbai 
Dharmendra Jai Narain, has been appointed as the Director of the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. He succeeds Pankaj Rag, who was the Director of FTII till recently, a press note issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Govt of India, said.
Popularly known as D J Narain, the new FTII Director is an officer of the 1990 batch of the Indian Information Service and comes to FTII with a experience in administration, management, media communication and performing arts....
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 : Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, directed by David Yates
Avada kedavra!
"Harry is an absolute godsend to our cause,” a certain High Priest “Egan” of the First Church of Satan in Salem, Massachusetts,USA was quoted as saying of British author J.K Rowling's boy wizard. “An organization like ours thrives on new blood - no pun intend...
LARRY CROWNE
Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Cedric the Entertainer, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Taraji P. Henson, Wilmer Valderrama, Rami Malek, George Takei, Bryan Cranston, Rita Wilson
Director: Tom Hanks
America's sweethearts Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks share remarkable chemistry in this heart-warming romantic comedy about how Every(wo)man takes adversity on the chin, and comes up trumps.
It must be said though the film belongs as much to the youthful cast as it does to...
Children’s Film Society India's weeklong Mumbai ‘Monsoon Dhamaal’ concluded at Films Division 15th July 2011 in the course of which ten award winning CFSI films were screened to cheering school children. Entry to the screenings was free!
This specially curated package has already travelled to Kochi, Pune, Jaipur where it received an overwhelming response. Monsoon Dhamaal will travel to Srinagar, Kolkata, Indore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, New Delhi and Bangalore in the coming month...
JOYEUX FETE NATIONAL TO THE FRENCH!
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The German director Andreas Dresen and his longtime producer Peter Rommel will be
honoured on October 1st, 2011 during the 19th edition of Filmfest Hamburg with the
Douglas-Sirk-Award. This award is given each year to a personality who has
rendered outstanding services to film culture.
Filmfest director Albert Wiederspiel says,“ This is the first time Filmfest Hamburg has decided to honour filmmakers from Germany. We wanted to emphasize and reward an outstanding and continuous partn...
Transformers - Dark of the Moon (3D)
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John Turturro,Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson,Frances McDormand,Patrick Dempsey,John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, Alan Tudyk,Julie White, Kevin Dunn + voices of Leonard Nimoy & Hugo Weaving
Director: Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf and John Turturro who could easily pass off for father and son return as sweet Sam Witwicky and secret agent Simmons in the third edition of the toy inspired shapes...
X-MEN FIRST CLASS
Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Beth Goddard, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Caleb Landry Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Laurence Belcher, Bill Milner
Director Matthew Vaughn
Unlike some young people we know who sigh when we beg them to read
books, or look aghast when we cry over Sydney Carton's final moments in
"A Tale of Two Cities", the...
Green Lantern
Starring:Ryan Reynolds, Peter Sarsgaard, Blake Lively, Mark Strong,Tim Robbins, Jay O. Sanders, Angela Basset, Temuera Morrison, Taika Waititi and Geoffrey Rush (voice)
Director: Martin Campbell
Green Lantern, as those of you who've grown up reading comics well know, is a hero with several histories. Director Martin (Casino Royale) Campbell's green dude is an amalgamation of all these strands, even as Sinestro (Mark Strong) is a far cry from his villainous moni...
Cinephiles ahoy! check out the Alain Resnais Cycle starting Wed. July 6th, 6:30pm at the Alliance Française auditorium in Mumbai.
It kicks off with Stavisky, which Resnais based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky affair , which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime minister...
This month, the Alliance Francaise de Bombay's Ciné-Club and Chill N Read collaborate to explore the art of adapting novels into movies. Film and book lovers are invited to come along Monday the 4th of July, 5.30pm with such a book and share opinions in the Alliance Française library over a cup of chai!
Can’t think of a particular title of book or movie? Check all the novels adapted into films available at the Alliance Française Library on their website: bombay.afin...
In a welcome gesture to Indian Cinema, the City of Brampton in Ontario, Canada, will name a street after the ultimate Showman – the late Raj Kapoor. Introducing a new street into the infrastructure of the city, when constructed it will be named, the ‘Raj Kapoor Crescent’.
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will host a tribute to the patriarch of the Kapoor clan, Raj Kapoor. Titled, ‘Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema’ the festival will run for six ...
Shahrukh Khan's new film“Don 2 – The Chase Continues” introduces the German Capital to Bollywood filmlovers. One of the top three destinations in Europe, after London and Paris, it registered an increase in the number of Indian visitors by 43 percent in 2010. Now, Berliners would like Don 2 to make the city even more popular with Indians.
Burkhard Kieker, CEO, visitBerlin says "Don 2 has two starring roles, Shah Rukh Khan and Berlin.” What's Shahrukh's considered opinion of...
The Alliance Française de Bombay has organised the premiere in Mumbai of the documemtary film, Women Are Heroes directed by the award winning French artist and photographer JR at Olive Bandra on Monday,June 30,2011. The film was screened at Cannes last year.
"In peacetime women are discriminated, in wartime they are targets," says JR, who has just received the 2011 TED Prize. It is these women and their courage that he honours through outsized street-art w...
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? is the rock memoir of Grammy Award-winning, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith (and celebrity judge on American Idol) which I've been watching late night on telly. He's sweet, ditto Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson, you couldn't say the same thing about Simon Cowell who was fun to watch anyway. Last time I saw Cowell chat with Jay Leno and Piers Morgan, he'd talked about giving 5 million USD prize m...
Guillermo del Toro, one of Hollywood’s award winning film-makers (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Hammett Award-winning thriller writer Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves) return with The Fall—the second volume in their critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Strain Trilogy. The Fall picks up where The Strain left off—with a vampiric infection spreading like wildfire across America as a small band of heroes struggles to save the dwindling human race from the vampire plague.
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Hollywood is making a movie where they kill Osama bin Laden then bring him back to life, kill osama then bring him back to life. The title of the film is RECYLING BINS.
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The first Australian Film Festival kicked off 26th March, 2011 at Cinemax, Versova in Mumbai. The screenings will showcase the work of the Ace Australian Director Bill Bennett among other movies made by filmwallas from Down Under. The initiative is the inchild of Sydney based film maker Mr. Anupam Sharma (Festival Director), Mr. Peter Castaldi (Renowned Film Critic & Festival Director), Mr. Shahnaab Alam (Film Industry Advisor) & Mr. Bill Bennett and is a prequel to be follo...
Indian animation, gaming and VFX companies have romped home with the lion’s share of 10 of the 16 Best Animated Frame (BAF) awards announced at the FICCI FRAMES 2011.
French and American companies won two awards each in different categories while a British and a Pakistani filmmaker have won one award each.
BAF Awards were instituted in 2004 by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Industry and Commerce [FICCI] to recognize and honour students and professionals in the field of animation....
James Murdoch Calls for Digitization of Infrastructure & Competitive Home Market for Creative Sector at FICCI FRAMES 2011
James Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive, News Corporation for Europe and Asia, has called for digitization of infrastructure to unlock the potential of India’s creative sector and underlined the need for ensuring that India’s creative market is competitive at home.
In his keynote address at FICCI FRAMES 2011 here today, Mr. Murdoch said that digi...
FICCI FRAMES 2011, Asia’s largest convention on the media and entertainment, went into business mode with India's Union Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot urging industry players to leverage technology for unleashing the creative potential of young Indians, especially in rural areas tier III and IV towns.
Inaugurating the three-day convention here today, Pilot said that a speedy movement from analogue to digital tec...
Mobile Phone Film Making Workshop - Micro Moves: Human - Urban / Surviving Strategies in a Mega-City
German filmmaker Till Passow will conduct a mobile Phone Film Making Workshop under the aegis of Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.
Till Passow, born in 1968, is a renowned film maker. He has won the Oberhausen Mobile Phone Film Competition and was an assistant and trainee interviewer on the Steven Spielberg project Survivors of the Shoah. Till Passow spent eight months in Calcutta in 2001 to d...
India's Media & Entertainment industry registered a growth of 11 percent over 2009 and touched Rs 65,200 crores in 2010, says a FICCI-KPMG report. Backed by positive industry sentiment and growing media consumption, the industry is estimated to achieve a growth rate of 13 percent in 2011. Overall the industry is expected to register a CAGR of 14 percent to touch INR 127,500 crores by 2015.
Released at the inaugural session of FICCI FRAMES 2011, today ( on March 23, 2011 ) the ...
Did you know the wooden horse from the 2004 film Troy, is preserved on the seafront at Çanakkale, Turkey? ( The Trojan Horse was a wooden contraption in which Greek soldiers hid to trick the Trojans into opening their city gates, thus losing their long drawn out war. Helen,wife of King Menelaus of Sparta was "given" by the goddess Aphrodite to Paris, who was married and deeply in love with a nymph named Oenone, but left her for Helen. The Spartan queen eloped with ...
I've been a fan of Mel
Gibson longer than I care to remember and was saddened by his dalliance and love child with a Russian woman who had had a child earlier with former Bond, Timothy Dalton. Had Mel gone off his head? Mel, the action star, the practical joker on the sets, who had a large brood from his happy marriage to the same woman - his childhood sweetheart- for decades. A rarity in Hollywood, OK, make that showbiz.
I'm sorry Mel knocked up the wo...
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