Overview, Game Changer: The Collector, his sideways sidekick, the CM and the game of musical chairs It used to be ‘the end justifies the means’, and the end was always the turnstiles. So, the end was always the same, only the means, or the ways of getting there, were different. Then it became ‘the means are the same, since the end is the same’. So we had similarity in approach too, with only a semblance of difference. Finally, we have reached a stage where ‘the t...

LoveYaPa, Trailer and song launch: Aamir dominates press and fan meet, speaks with characteristic candour It was a roller-coaster ride for the attendees, and a personal nostalgia trip for me, when the title song and trailer of the forthcoming film, LoveYaPa (a pun on Love or Pa), releasing on 07 February, the week preceding Valentine’s Day, in the presence of media and fans. The day was today and the venue was New Excelsior Cinema, now under Mukta A2 ownership, and the time was…w...

Love is Forever, Overview: Unrequited love, unimpressive expression If one were to take a count of films made on the theme of love, in all its splendour, one might find that the overwhelming majority of films made in the past 100 years have love at their core: filial love, maternal love, paternal love, love between spouses, flirtation, love as lust, love as a pursuit, patriotic love, spiritual love, love of a game, platonic love, sublime love, triangular love and unrequited love, are some exa...

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The Heist, by M.K. Shankar: Screenplay-dialogue book review Not many directors/writers publish the screenplay of a film they could not, or did not, make. So, it was surprising when M.K. Shankar, who I first met some 33 years ago, presented me a copy of The Heist, recently. The screenplay of The Heist-One World One Government, is not to be confused with The Heist, a 2024 Hindi-language crime thriller film, directed by Aditya Awandhe, starring Nad Sham, Suman Rao and Siddhanth Kapoor. The scree...

Sky Force trailer launch: Aerial action beyond enemy lines After a spate of films about military engagement and espionage across the border, we have a movie that rises in the air and traces the action of the air force, in 1965. The film is titled Sky Force and its trailer was launched last week at the PVR Cineplex at Juhu, Mumbai. Starring Akshay Kumar and Sara Ali Khan, the film introduces Veer Paharia, an assistant director who graduates to a romantic lead with the film. Akshay and Veer wer...

Last night, at the Golden Globes, "Conclave," won a Best Writing Award.  Best Actor went to Adrian Brody, and like Adrian, Demi Moore won her first Globe Award ever. She was ready to give up acting when the script for "Substance," came along, and she and the film got some love in Cannes as well. The surprise of the night was the award for Fernanda Torres in, Walter Salles, "I'm Still Here."  A title many of us can relate to.  You can see the fil...

Ho! Ho! Ho!  Time to celebrate the good life at Universal Studios Hollywood. Once again this is the time when it wouldn’t be a Holiday if one cannot celebrate “Grinchmas”! Since they are babies rolled in a bugaboo stroller, we have been coming, with my three sons, to Universal Studios Hollywood (https://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/web/en/us ) to celebrate the end of the year and to zoom into the future of another brilliant coming era. Until January 6th you also ca...

  Berlinale Talents Key Visual and Theme for 2025: "Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance" © Ada Favaron and Imad Gebrael The art of listening will be the overarching theme for the 23rd edition of Berlinale Talents, the vibrant talent hub of the Berlin International Film Festival.   Listening intently, considerately, carefully, and most importantly, courageously, builds upon the foundation o...

Interview by Emmanuel Itier SNOW WHITE screening at the Red Sea International Fim Festival Interview with director: Taghrid Abouelhassan, Actress: Mariam Sherif and producer: Mohamed Agamy. By Emmanuel Itier   And the Award for Yusr Best Actress goes to: Mariam Sherif! I was so happy for Mariam and the team of director Taghrid Abouelhassam and producer Mohamed Agamy, for such a WIN! Fantastic that this great actress is recognized for her talent and her humanity in this very touc...

  On January 24, the 48th Göteborg Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere of Safe House (Før mørket), directed by acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Eirik Svensson. The opening ceremony will take place in Göteborg as well as in cinemas across Sweden, while also marking the launch of the festival’s digital platform.  The screenplay, written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Lars Gudmestad, is based on real events from the autobiography "Det fi...

Mahayogi-Highway 1 to Happiness, Review:  An imioned monologue for universal peace and tolerance There are films and there are films. Some are routine, masala, formulaic films, and there are path-breaking, experimental films, off the beaten track. There are also films that can barely be called films. These are genre-defying (which is the experimental part) and grammar-denying (which is the indulgent part). Mahayogi-Highway 1 to Heaven (English) is one such film. 90% of the film is a ...

      Silvia Bizio moderates Q&A with Director Fang Li An OSCARS® FYC screening and reception for the Chinese documentary 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' was held at The Crescent Theater in Beverly Hills on December 10, 2024.     Synopsis: A documentary about the 1942 torpedoing of a Japanese freighter that carried British prisoners of war during World War II. The film tells the story of the sinking of the Japanese freighter and t...

RED PATH screening at Red Sea International Film Festival   Interview with: Director Lofti Achour and Producers Anissa Daoud and Sébastien Hussenot by Emmanuel Itier   RED PATH is without question one of the most moving film from the Festival. Director Lofti Achour and his team of brilliant creative producers and amazing maverick young actors will slap you in your soul with this “tour de force” picture exposing the harsh horrible reality faced by youn...

Pushpa means flower in Hindi. Our protagonist is not a flower, but a fire. Not any ordinary fire, but as he declares, to his nemesis, Shekhawat, “wild fire.”. This ‘flowery wild fire’ learns the skill of swimming and holding his breath underwater for much longer than the average swimmer, instantaneously, when forced to fetch a cricket ball from the bottom of a pond. Apparently illiterate, or, at best, semi-literate, he lives in the Chittoor district of Telangana, so his...

Posted By Robin Menken Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke’s quiet family drama is set in 1992, during the economic collapse in Peru, a national curfew and the constant attacks of the far-left terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path). An opening archival television news report features Peru’s minister of the economy announcing that in the next 24 hours, the price of milk will jump from 120,000 Peruvian intis to 330,000, the cost of sugar, now 150,000 intis, will...

By Kate Elfatah   The Bosnian-born Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović: A Master of Cinema Reflects on the Cairo International Film Festival and will serve as Jury President for this year’s festival. Meeting with International Press, Tanović shared his creative process, his opinions about the changing film industry and his lifetime love for storytelling. He travels to Cairo through the paved roads of his impressive career including directing "No ...

The critically acclaimed feature drama/thriller Noble Vision, based on the best-selling novel by Gen LaGreca, the film’s executive producer and scriptwriter, ​i​s available now to watch on Prime Video, Fandango at Home (Vudu), Hoopla, Roku, Plex and Tubi, as well as on InDemand/cable video on demand in the US and Canada  Official Trailer:      Noble Vision  had its West Coast theatrical premiere on September 10th&nb...

The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)  has always treated the Ukrainian country with great respect and sympathy. Our festival team has always been together with Ukrainian people who are currently fighting for their independence.Three years in a row we've organised charity auctions for Ukraine at the HÕFF festival. We’ve stopped screening Russian and Belarusian state-funded films already in 2022. We were the first to showcase Ukrainian film projects that had been put ...

 CRAZED FRUIT --  Kurutta Kajitsu, 1956. (狂った果実) Spending their summer on a trendy exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for -- winding up in Murder by Motorboat!   A small postwar Japanese Masterpiece -- Perfection! "Kurutta Kajitsu"    (狂った果実 ).  1956, is a landmark of Japanese cinema that has more to say about postwar Japan and mid fifties movie...

Check out the trailer, very simple, very classic and very smart marketing in my opinion (as a former distributor with Sony and Fox I have alligned many brands to some of the 200hundreds movies I released! My interrogation: how much did Pramount pay for this campaign? Perhaps they traded some free cars in the next Paramount release? Anyway lets have some fun watching this trailer! Bruno Chatelin Paramount Pictures is thrilled to team up with Scuderia Ferrari HP for an exclusive, one-of-a-kind...

Dhai Aakhar: Merely two-and-a-half letters of an alphabet arouse great expectations Dhai means two-and-a-half, and Aakhar means akshar or the letters of the Hindi alphabet. The title is taken from a doha (simple, moralising poetry written in couplet form) by an Indian saint, Kabeer, centuries ago. The line goes ‘Dhai aakhar prem ka/key padhey so Pandit hoye’ (whoever reads the two-and-a half letters of the Devnagari alphabet, that add-up to mean love, will be a true seer). Co-prod...

Vijay 69, Review: VATs 69 in a name? A story that looks very elevating and moralising on paper does not necessarily translate into an engaging film. Vijay 69 is one such film. It seems to have been made to showcase that Anupam Kher, who played an old man’s role in Mahesh Bhatt’s Saaransh (1984), when he was 29, can play such a role, as a 69 year-old at 69. That is a no-brainer. Forty years on, he has done 540 films and started an acting school, besides trying his hand at directio...

The Sabarmati Report, Trailer launch: Express train. Engine Arrival Time in Mumbai: 06 November 2024, Departure: Unknown On 27 February, 2002, one compartment of the Ahmedabad-Varanasi Sabarmati Express train went-up in flames at a railway station in Godhra Junction, killing 59 engers and injuring 48. Many politicians and media-persons equated this with the 9-11 attacks, on 09 September, 2001, on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, of the USA, and other places, in which 2,997 peopl...

    "Waltzing with Brando" closing film of Torino International Film Festival      American film director Bill Fishman and leading actor Billy Zane will present the film in world premiere at the Torino Film Festival   "Waltzing with Brando", written and directed by Bill Fishman, will have its world premiere at the 42tff during the awards ceremony on Saturday November 30. Together with the director, the leading act...