To celebrate the Indian film industry's centenary year, here are 10 essential movies – from a silent film about the life of the Buddha to a violent gangster epic
Prem Sanyas/The Light of Asia (Franz Osten, 1925)
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Among the few silent films that remain are three Indo-German co-productions that predate the arrival of the German technicians and directors who worked in the Bombay Talkies studio in the 1930s. The Light of Asia was shot in India but edited and processed in Germany and intertitled in English. The script was adapted from Sir Edwin Arnold's epic poem The Light of Asia (1861) while the opening credits proclaim it was "Shown by Royal Command at Windsor Castle, April 27 1926" and that it benefited greatly from help offered by the Maharaja of Jaipur. The film shows westerners touring India (Mumbai, Delhi, Varanasi) who come to Bodh Gaya, the site of Gautam Buddha's Enlightenment.
Prem Sanyas/The Light of Asia (Franz Osten, 1925)
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Among the few silent films that remain are three Indo-German co-productions that predate the arrival of the German technicians and directors who worked in the Bombay Talkies studio in the 1930s. The Light of Asia was shot in India but edited and processed in Germany and intertitled in English. The script was adapted from Sir Edwin Arnold's epic poem The Light of Asia (1861) while the opening credits proclaim it was "Shown by Royal Command at Windsor Castle, April 27 1926" and that it benefited greatly from help offered by the Maharaja of Jaipur. The film shows westerners touring India (Mumbai, Delhi, Varanasi) who come to Bodh Gaya, the site of Gautam Buddha's Enlightenment.
- 7/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The 11th Pune International Film Festival (January 10-17, 2013) has announced its slate for 2013. These films will be screened under nine sections: International Competition, Marathi Competition, Student Competition (live action and animation), Global Cinema, Country Focus, Retrospective, Tribute, Indian Cinema and Regional Cinema.
Israeli film Hayuta and Berl by Amir Manor will open the festival on 10th January. See the schedule here.
Feature films at the festival contend for the Best Film, Best Director and Government of Maharashtra “Sant Tukaram” Best International Marathi Film Award. The Marathi films in competition will vie for the Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography Awards. The Student Competition will also have a Special Award and a cash prize.
Eighty contemporary films from more than 50 countries will be screened under the Global Cinema section. Hungary and South Korea will be the Countries in Focus with the screening of six and seven films, respectively.
Israeli film Hayuta and Berl by Amir Manor will open the festival on 10th January. See the schedule here.
Feature films at the festival contend for the Best Film, Best Director and Government of Maharashtra “Sant Tukaram” Best International Marathi Film Award. The Marathi films in competition will vie for the Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography Awards. The Student Competition will also have a Special Award and a cash prize.
Eighty contemporary films from more than 50 countries will be screened under the Global Cinema section. Hungary and South Korea will be the Countries in Focus with the screening of six and seven films, respectively.
- 1/9/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Amitabh Bachchan
The 18th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival will host a special section in the honour of Amitabh Bachchan. The festival will be inaugurated by Bachchan along with Shahrukh Khan.
Six of Bachchan starrer films: Saath Hindustani, Abhiman, Saudagar, Deewar, Black, and Cheeni Kum will be screened under the special section “Big Story” (Amitabh Bachchan).
The festival will run from 10th to 17th November, 2012. The eight day festival will host 170 films from 62 countries.
This year the festival will hold various special sections. Some of them are:
Centenary Tribute
This section will screen 13 films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
The Adventure (1960)
The Night (1961)
The Eclipse (1962)
The Red Desert (1964)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
People of the Po Valley (1947)
Lies of Love (1949)
Superstitions (1949)
Dustmen (1948)
Kumbha Mela (1989)
Roma 90 (1990)
Sicilia (1997)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004)
200 Years Birth Anniversary Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Douglas McGrath
The Pickwick Papers by Noel Langley
100 Years Of Indian Cinema
Raja Harishchandra by D.
The 18th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival will host a special section in the honour of Amitabh Bachchan. The festival will be inaugurated by Bachchan along with Shahrukh Khan.
Six of Bachchan starrer films: Saath Hindustani, Abhiman, Saudagar, Deewar, Black, and Cheeni Kum will be screened under the special section “Big Story” (Amitabh Bachchan).
The festival will run from 10th to 17th November, 2012. The eight day festival will host 170 films from 62 countries.
This year the festival will hold various special sections. Some of them are:
Centenary Tribute
This section will screen 13 films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
The Adventure (1960)
The Night (1961)
The Eclipse (1962)
The Red Desert (1964)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
People of the Po Valley (1947)
Lies of Love (1949)
Superstitions (1949)
Dustmen (1948)
Kumbha Mela (1989)
Roma 90 (1990)
Sicilia (1997)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004)
200 Years Birth Anniversary Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Douglas McGrath
The Pickwick Papers by Noel Langley
100 Years Of Indian Cinema
Raja Harishchandra by D.
- 11/3/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Ha Bharat Maza directed by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar won the Sant Tukaram award for Best Marathi Film at the 10th Pune International Film Festival which concluded on Thursday. The film based on corruption in Indian middle-class families walked away with a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh.
Umesh Kulkarni won the Best Director for Deool while Uttara Baokar was adjudged the Best Actor for Ha Bharat Maza and Subodh Bhave for Balgandharva.
German film If Not Us, Who? by Andres Veiel won the Best Film award in the World Cinema competition category and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh. Asghar Farhadi won the Best Director for Nader & Simin: A Separation.
Somnath Gupta’s Ami Aadu won the audience award for Best Film in world competition. This award was instituted by the festival in the 10th edition.
The festival closed with the screening of German film If Not Us, Who?...
Umesh Kulkarni won the Best Director for Deool while Uttara Baokar was adjudged the Best Actor for Ha Bharat Maza and Subodh Bhave for Balgandharva.
German film If Not Us, Who? by Andres Veiel won the Best Film award in the World Cinema competition category and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh. Asghar Farhadi won the Best Director for Nader & Simin: A Separation.
Somnath Gupta’s Ami Aadu won the audience award for Best Film in world competition. This award was instituted by the festival in the 10th edition.
The festival closed with the screening of German film If Not Us, Who?...
- 1/20/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Writer, director & producer: Amole Gupte, Cinematography: Amol Gole, Editing: Deepa Bhatia, Actors: Partho, Amole Gupte, Divya Dutta
Amole Gupte is an ambitious filmmaker and he makes no bones about it. To that effect, the beginning of the film is noteworthy. Gupte makes a reference to Indian cinema classics like Damle and Fattelal’s Sant Tukaram and Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara before claiming that he has attempted to enter the same league of Indian masters with Stanley Ka Dabba, a 100 years later!
The film begins with a beautiful animation by Gitanjali Rao, the same filmmaker whose animation films will screen in Cannes Critics Week and Cannes Film Market this year. Beauty and innocence run innately through the film, emerging from the children who feature in Stanley Ka Dabba. To extract such natural performances from children is an achievement on the part of the filmmaker. Or should they be called performances at all,...
Amole Gupte is an ambitious filmmaker and he makes no bones about it. To that effect, the beginning of the film is noteworthy. Gupte makes a reference to Indian cinema classics like Damle and Fattelal’s Sant Tukaram and Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara before claiming that he has attempted to enter the same league of Indian masters with Stanley Ka Dabba, a 100 years later!
The film begins with a beautiful animation by Gitanjali Rao, the same filmmaker whose animation films will screen in Cannes Critics Week and Cannes Film Market this year. Beauty and innocence run innately through the film, emerging from the children who feature in Stanley Ka Dabba. To extract such natural performances from children is an achievement on the part of the filmmaker. Or should they be called performances at all,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
The 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from 31 August to 10 September, 2011, has begun its call for entries in all categories for 2011.Venice International Film Festival’s long association with Indian cinema dates back to the international premiere of Sant Tukaram in 1937. The festival's importance as a global platform for Indian cinema was confirmed in 1957 when Satyajit Ray’s Aparajitowas awarded the prestigious Golden Lion.More recently, Amit Dutta’s Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya (The Man’s ...
- 2/22/2011
- BusinessofCinema
Pune International Film Festival
Zhang Lu’s La Riviere Tumen, a co-production of South Korea and France won the Government of Maharashtra’s Prabhat Best International Film award at the 9th Pune International Film Festival. Baboo Band Baaja by Rajesh Pinjani won the Sant Tukaram Best Marathi Feature Film, comprising of a cash award of Rs. 5 lakh. The festival came to an end with the award ceremony on Thursday.
Borys Lankosz won the Prabhat Best International Film Director for the film The Reverse (Poland). The special jury award was given to Natalie Smirnoff for Puzzle (Argentina, France).
Veteran actresses Saira Banu and Shashikala were honoured with Life Time Achievement awards while director Subhash Ghai was awarded for his contribution to the film industry in the ninth edition of the festival which ran from January 6-13.
Zhang Lu’s La Riviere Tumen, a co-production of South Korea and France won the Government of Maharashtra’s Prabhat Best International Film award at the 9th Pune International Film Festival. Baboo Band Baaja by Rajesh Pinjani won the Sant Tukaram Best Marathi Feature Film, comprising of a cash award of Rs. 5 lakh. The festival came to an end with the award ceremony on Thursday.
Borys Lankosz won the Prabhat Best International Film Director for the film The Reverse (Poland). The special jury award was given to Natalie Smirnoff for Puzzle (Argentina, France).
Veteran actresses Saira Banu and Shashikala were honoured with Life Time Achievement awards while director Subhash Ghai was awarded for his contribution to the film industry in the ninth edition of the festival which ran from January 6-13.
- 1/14/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Pune International Film Festival poster
The Pune International Film Festival 2011 will be held from 6 to 13 January 2011. Silent Souls / Ovsyanki directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko of Russia, a film competing in World Cinema section will be the opening film of the festival.
The Government of Maharashtra will present the “Prabhat” Best International Film award comprising of $20,000 and “Prabhat” Best International Film Director comprising of $10,000.
The other awards in the festival are: Government of Maharashtra’s – “Sant Tukaram” Best International Marathi Film (Rs 5Lac), Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal Best Marathi Film Director (Rs.25,000), Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal – Best Marathi Film Actor( Rs.25,000) and Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal – Best screenplay Rs.25,000.
Life Time Achievement Awards will also be presented for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
For Whistling Woods International, Student Competition, the awards are: Best Film ($ 2000), Best Director ($ 1000) and Best Screen Play (Us $ 1000). There is a special award for student cinematographers...
The Pune International Film Festival 2011 will be held from 6 to 13 January 2011. Silent Souls / Ovsyanki directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko of Russia, a film competing in World Cinema section will be the opening film of the festival.
The Government of Maharashtra will present the “Prabhat” Best International Film award comprising of $20,000 and “Prabhat” Best International Film Director comprising of $10,000.
The other awards in the festival are: Government of Maharashtra’s – “Sant Tukaram” Best International Marathi Film (Rs 5Lac), Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal Best Marathi Film Director (Rs.25,000), Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal – Best Marathi Film Actor( Rs.25,000) and Akhil Bhartiya Chitrapat Maha Mandal – Best screenplay Rs.25,000.
Life Time Achievement Awards will also be presented for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
For Whistling Woods International, Student Competition, the awards are: Best Film ($ 2000), Best Director ($ 1000) and Best Screen Play (Us $ 1000). There is a special award for student cinematographers...
- 1/4/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Pune, Dec 10 (Ians) Eminent Marathi and English litterateur, poet and filmmaker Dilip Chitre died after a long illness here early Thursday. He was 71.
Chitre, who is survived by his wife Viju, had been suffering from cancer for over five years and died around 3.30 a.m. Thursday.
Born in the erstwhile princely state of Baroda (Gujarat) in September 1938, Chitre published his first collection of poems at the age of 22.
His well-known works include “Ekun Kavita”, a collection of poems in Marathi, and “Travelling in the Cage” in English.
Chitre’s renowned work was “Says Tuka”, the English translation of the poems by famous 17th century saint-poet of Maharashtra Sant Tukaram,.
Chitre, who is survived by his wife Viju, had been suffering from cancer for over five years and died around 3.30 a.m. Thursday.
Born in the erstwhile princely state of Baroda (Gujarat) in September 1938, Chitre published his first collection of poems at the age of 22.
His well-known works include “Ekun Kavita”, a collection of poems in Marathi, and “Travelling in the Cage” in English.
Chitre’s renowned work was “Says Tuka”, the English translation of the poems by famous 17th century saint-poet of Maharashtra Sant Tukaram,.
- 12/10/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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