World Cinema

1. FESTIVALS    

Cannes 2008: The choice Cannes 2008: Zero for India Marrakech 2007: Gripping Venice 2007: Umbrella Venice 2007: Cleopatra Venice 2007: A fixer and a sleuth Venice 2007: Beyond the Years Venice 2007: Searchers 2.0 Venice 2007: Triumphing against odds Venice 2007: Glory to the Filmmaker Venice 2007: The Horror that Iraq is Venice 2007: Dark period movies to begin with Cannes 2007: The Edge of Heaven Cannes 2007: Gus Van Sant and Paranoid Park Cannes 2007: Killers and Killings  Cannes 2007: Political cinema Cannes 2007: More on the spy Cannes 2007: The prizes Cannes 2007: The spy who came in from the cold Cannes 2007: The second half Cannes 2007: Guess time Cannes 2007: Breath of Zodiac Cannes 2007: The Newsmakers Cannes 2007: French musical, Russian Banishment and Tautou as Coco Cannes 2007: Of Europe and Asia Cannes 2007: Wong Kar-wai’s Blueberry starter Cannes 2007: Bollywood calls on Cannes Cannes 2007: At 60, looking back on magic and mirth Deauville Asian Film Festival 2007: The Good and the not so good Marrakech 2006: Indians stay away Marrakech 2006: Bachchan to be honoured Cannes 2006: Babel is a babel of events Cannes 2006: Depardieu's Soliloques in The Singer Cannes 2006: Ken Loach's barley and roses Cannes 2006: Volver is magnificence Cannes 2006: Minimalism, too Cannes 2006: Political delights Cannes 2006: Top prize for Ken Loach Cannes 2006: The Da Vinci Code reviewed Cannes 2006: Usual suspects missing Cannes 2006: The Da Vinci Code to open the festival Cannes 2006: First ever Chinese jury president Cannes 2005: Jarmusch & Wenders Cannes 2005: French cinema Cannes 2005: David Cronenberg's A History of Violence Cannes 2005: Lars von Trier's Manderlay Cannes 2005: Woody Allen's Match Point Cannes 2005: Artistic Director loves Indian Cinema Cannes 2005: Explosion of Indian presence Cannes 2005: Old formula sans controversy Cannes 2005: Nandita Das on the main international jury Deauville Asian Film Festival 2005: Fulfilling experience Cannes 2004: The gems Cannes 2004: Moore gets Golden Palm Cannes 2004: Palm and politics Cannes 2004: Moore explodes with his documentary Cannes 2004: In and out Cannes 2004: The French Riviera is ready for movie madness Cannes 2004: Moore to step in with controversy Cannes 2004: No Indian entry Cannes 2004: Ready to lighten moods Deauville Asian Film Festival 2004: Entertaining

2. OTHER EVENTS

• Academy Awards 2007: The Departed Indian flavour
• Academy Awards 2007: "Rang De Basanti" out
• Academy Awards 2006: Mountain Crashes among winners
• Academy Awards 2006: Hopefuls
• Academy Awards 2006: Nominations for smaller, personal films
• Academy Awards 2005: No Oscar for Scorsese, yet again
• Fox closes shop in India
• Academy Awards 2005: Triumph of spirit in the Foreign Language Category
• Interpreter: Film being shot inside U.N.
• Academy Awards 2004: Bowled over by fantasy
• Academy Awards 2004: Nominations unspool surprises

 

3. CLASSICS

• Three Colours: Blue, White and Red : Kieslowski's trilogy...

 

4. OTHER MOVIES

• Potter Mania
• Miami Vice: Cops with dash and daring
• Downfall - Trying to give a human face to a monster: Review
• The Constant Gardner – An African journey: Review
• Lady in the Water – Not even a fairytale: Review
• A History of Violence - Mocking us with a message: Review
• Brokeback Mountain – A gentle version of Westerns: Review
• Zhang Ziyi double cross
• Saviour Superman Returns
• Capote - Ruthless pursuit of a dream: Review
• Syriana – Oil politics: Review
• Basic Instinct 2 – A study in desperation: Review
• After the Sunset – Diamonds and love: Review
• Cracking the Da Vinci Code
• Walk the Line - Song of love: Review
• Crash - Black is not beautiful: Review
• Pride and Prejudice - Not quite Austen: Review
• The Interpreter – Gripping work: Review
• War of the Worlds – Disappointing, though visually great: Review
• The Interpreter
• Hitch - A dumb affair: Review
• Shall We Dance - Not enough toe-tapping: Review
• The Aviator - Not Scorsese's best: Review
• Alexander - abridged version disappointing: Review
• Bride and Prejudice: Rubbishing Jane Austen
• The Village - A silly joke: Review
• Mystic River: Review
• Fahrenheit 9/11: Temperatures soar
• Troy: Review
• Fahrenheit 9/11: Not for all
• 50 First Dates: Review
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Soulless saga
• The Passion of the Christ: Gibson's passion
• The Passion of the Christ: Review
• Something's Gotta Give: Review
• Gothika: Review
• Hellboy: Of beasts and beauties
• Mona Lisa Smile: Inspiring a generation
• Mona Lisa Smile: Review
• Cold Mountain - Loving through a war: Review
• The Last Samurai: Hollywood spectacle

 

5. CINEMA IN GENERAL

• Exciting times ahead for movie buffs
  

6. PERSONALITIES

• Gong Li is a Hollywood star, finally
• Shohei Imamura: Exploring the dark and the forbidding
• Ismail Merchant: The film behind the movie
• Cary Grant is still adorable
• Steven Spielberg: An intelligent entertainer
• Marlon Brando: Brilliance behind the mumble
• Jack Nicholson: An enduring affair