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A film by Orson Welles<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Based on Kafka's novel The Trial</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">1962/ France | West Germany | Italy / 119 minutes</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">12<sup>th</sup> Nov 2017/ 5.45 pm / Perks Mini
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Welles ("Citizen Kane"/"Touch of Evil") in a defensive
manner has said that "The Trial' is the finest film I have ever
made." This is a loose adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel, published
posthumously in 1925. The Trial takes place in an unnamed hostile country.
Anthony Perkins is an excellent choice to play the Jewish bureaucrat clerk
Joseph K, a man arrested in his bare apartment early in the morning by two
heavy-handed fascist-type of policeman and not told what crime he is charged
with as he's brought to trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with a sense of guilt, a constant twitch, a nervous manner of speaking and
hiding his fear through repression of being exposed as some kind of sexual
deviant, the bland but ambitious office clerk Joseph K</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">takes no comfort as he's defended by the
tyrannical Advocate (Orson Welles), who offers him no reason to believe his
case will be resolved in a positive way. Never told what he's charged with, the
innocent man begins to doubt even his innocence, as he's mentally tortured by
trying to recall what he might have done to deserve this fate.</span></div>
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chilling lobbies and arcades, which are turned into Freudian dreamscapes of the
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on, K becomes involved with three sexually intriguing women -- Jeanne Moreau
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and Elsa Martinelli (a cleaning lady in the law courts) -- who all serve as
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film is brilliantly lit on the dark side, much like a film noir, pouring over
with critical thoughts about the individual, society, and art. Though not for
all all tastes, those who stay with this one will be richly rewarded with a
unique cinematic experience. Welles is a great filmmaker, who is an excellent
guide into a Kafkaesque nightmare. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Thanks
to <b>Dennis Schwartz)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hollywood Rebel & Founding Member of The Society of
Independent Motion Picture Producers<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though little appreciated in his time,
Orson Welles is today one of classic Hollywood's most acclaimed cinematic
visionaries Always an outsider to the studio system which dominated filmmaking
at the time however, Welles never condescended to play by Hollywood's rules and
his arduous four-decade career was pocked with moments of brilliance, excess
and waste.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was
an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, actor and producer for
film, stage, radio and television. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his
October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it caused a number of
listeners to panic. In 1941, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in
Citizen Kane, often chosen in polls of film critics as the greatest film ever
made. And in 1941, at 26, he achieved his greatest ambition through formation
of his own Mercury Productions, Inc. The rest of his career was often
obstructed by lack of funds, incompetent studio interference and other unfortunate
occurrences, both during exile in Europe and brief returns to Hollywood.
Despite these difficulties Othello won the 1952 Grand Prix du Festival
International du Film at the Cannes Film Festival and Touch of Evil won the top
prize at the Brussels World Fair, while Welles himself considered The Trial and
Chimes at Midnight to be the best of his efforts.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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studios as a director/producer, his large</span></div>
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r-than-life personality made him a
bankable actor. In his later years he struggled against a Hollywood system that
refused to finance his independent film projects, making a living largely
through acting, commercials, and voice-over work. Welles received a 1975
American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement award, the third person to do so
after John Ford and James Cagney. Critical appreciation for Welles has
increased since his death. He is now widely acknowledged as one of the most
important dramatic artists of the 20th century: in 2002 he was voted as the
greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute's poll of Top
Ten Directors.<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: TA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANTARJALI
YATRA - The Voyage Beyond</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">A
film by Goutam Ghose<br />
1989/ Bengal/ 140 min<br />
17th Sept / 5.45pm/ Perks Mini Theater</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Antarjali Yatra is a
stunning and beautifully picturised drama happening around the cremation ground
of a Bengali village on the muddy banks of the river Ganga. It traces the
journey of a young maiden who, to save the graces of the family, was married
off to an extremely old man on his deathbed, and how, she finds a company in a
'dom' - a man responsible for cremating at the burning ghats. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uSjVlIM1gQQ/WbjUVNRMxWI/AAAAAAAAGiI/7xtj7cOw6ToILBotpmTy7Tsd0JBsILexgCLcBGAs/s1600/vlcsnap-2017-09-13-11h16m21s148.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="480" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uSjVlIM1gQQ/WbjUVNRMxWI/AAAAAAAAGiI/7xtj7cOw6ToILBotpmTy7Tsd0JBsILexgCLcBGAs/s640/vlcsnap-2017-09-13-11h16m21s148.png" width="640" /></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">She is expected
to practice the ancient Hindu ritual known as SATI in which the widow throws
herself on the burning funeral pyre of her late husband.<span> </span>Wife who commits Sati was worshiped as a goddess
during those days. Antarjali Yatra is set in the Bengal of 19th century, times
of great social turbulence and breaking up of old traditions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In this remarkable film
nothing happens as you expect and things go berserk. From the beginning , a
painted eye on a boat moored near the burial ground watches the <span> </span>absurd drama unfolding on that river
bank.<span> </span>There are three main characters-
the young bride, the dying old man<span>
</span>and<span> </span>the cremator of that ghat.
Shatrugan Sinha gives his stellar performance as the drunk untouchable
cremator<span> </span>entrusted with the last
cremation rites who is against the practice of Sati. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The film is rife with long
shots, and the cinematography is mesmerizing - the frames sometimes bring out
the bare truth along the muddy banks of Ganga, and sometimes they have this
brooding, lingering feel.<span> </span>Director
Gautam Ghose is also the cinematographer and music director of this film. Film
is<span> </span>based on a novel, Mahayatra by by
Kamal Kumar Mazumdar. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Goutam
Ghose</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Goutam Ghose was born on
24th July,-1950 in Kolkata. He did his primary education from the St. John
Diocesan School and later joined Cathedral Missionary Boys for higher
studies.He made his directional debut with his biopic film New Earth in 1973.
Later, he made his cinema debut from the film MaaBhoomi in 1979. His Film Paar
with Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi was based on the Bengali story Paathi. He
made his acting debut from the film Grihajuddha in 1982 and later he acted in a
Gayak in 1987, BaisheSrabon in 2011, Ekla Akash in 2012, Chotushkone in 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">He was among the few whose
films were awarded Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Screenplay
awards at the National Film Awards ceremony. Including the awards and citations
received for Antanjali Yatra , he has won 16 National Awards and many
international awards like the Silver Balloon Award, the Nantes Film Festival,
the UNESCO Award, the Cannes Film Festival, the Grand Prix-Golden Semurg at
Tashkent,[4] the Fipresci Awards</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Red Cross Award.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">13th August, Sunday - Hitchcock's
birthday<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">REBECCA</span><br />
</b>A film by Alfred Hitchcock<br />
Based on Daphne Du Maurier's celebrated novel<br />
1940/ USA/ 130 minutes<br />
5.45 pm / Perks Mini Theater</span></span></span></div>
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Fontaine) is making her living as the paid companion of a rich American lady.
While the lady is abed with the flu, the young woman meets and is captivated by
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Their whirlwind romance leads to a marriage and he brings her home as "the
second Mrs. de Winter." This is not the first time Maxim has been married.
His previous wife, Rebecca, died in a boating accident several years ago and
her death is said to have broken him. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The new Mrs. de Winter does not find it easy going being the
mistress of Manderlay, her husband's vast estate. Meanwhile, the memory of
Rebecca, palpable as a specter, haunts the mansion. Rebecca falls neatly into
the three-act pattern that defines many classic Hollywood stories. The first
portion is a simple love story. It is told with tenderness and feeling and
illustrates that if Hitchcock had wanted to, he could have been a great
director of big Hollywood romances. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The second act, which encompasses the
second Mrs. de Winter's uneasy relationship with Manderlay and its servants,
her "battle" with Rebecca, and Maxim's revelation of the truth, is
more typically Hitchcockian than the rest of the movie. The director uses
camera angles, editing, and music to emphasize the lead character's
claustrophobia as it escalates to near-hysteria. Finally, the third section is
part police procedural and part drama as the movie accelerates to its logical
conclusion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hitchcock shows superb technical control and attends to his
trademark motifs, from monstrous mother figures to the fetishisation of
clothing (strong foreshadowings of ‘Vertigo’). The reason Rebecca still grips
lies in the fact that we can all see ourselves in Fontaine's role: everyone
plunged into a new and unfamiliar milieu has felt her uncertainty and fear that
they are the wrong person, in the wrong place. Rebecca marks the most decisive
single step both in Hitchcock’s career. This is Hitchcock's first movie after
he moved to America from England. The experience opened whole new vistas of
thematic and emotional expression, stimulating Hitchcock’s professional
ambition and expanding his artistic aspirations. The result exhibits that the
director is capable of a range few would credit him with. With Rebecca, he
illustrates an aptitude for crafting not only psychological terror but drama
and romance. (Source : Internet ) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">ALFRED HITCHCOCK</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He was known to his audiences as the 'Master of Suspense' and
what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task
of taming his own raging imagination. Director of such works as Vertigo,
Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through
intelligent plots witty dialogue and a spoonful of mystery and murder. In doing
so, he inspired a new generation of filmmakers and revolutionized the thriller
genre, making him a legend around the world. Hitchcock was eccentric,
demanding, inventive, impassioned and he had a great sense of British humor.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hitchcock had his first shot of being the director of a film
in 1923 when he was to direct the film "The Number 13", though the
production was stopped. Hitchcock didn't give up then. He directed a film
called "The Pleasure Garden" in 1925, a British/German production,
which was very popular. In 1926, Hitchcock made his first notable film,
"The Lodger". In the same year on the 2nd of December, Hitchcock
married Alma Reville. They had one child called Patricia Hitchcock (born 7th
July 1928).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">His success followed when he made a number of films in
Britain such as "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and Jamaica Inn (1939),
some of them which also made him famous in the USA. David O. Selznick, an
American producer at the time, got in touch with Hitchcock and the Hitchcock
family moved to the USA to direct an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
(1940). It was when Saboteur (1942) was made, that films companies began to
call his films after him; such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's
Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy. He retired soon after making Family
Plot (1976). In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred
Hitchcock. On the 29th April 1980, 9:17AM, he died peacefully in his sleep.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">GRADUATION<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Film by Cristian Mungiu<br />
2016, Romania, 123 minutes<br />
16<sup>th</sup> July, 5.45 pm , Perks Mini Theater<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A fascinating and fastidiously
complex study of one man’s moral choices at a crucial juncture in his life,
Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” is a thoroughgoing masterpiece which offers
proof that Romania’s cinematic upsurge remains the most vital and important
national film movement of the current century.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mungiu’s protagonist this time is
a doctor named Romeo Aldea, who is about to turn 50, which means that he’s
reached a certain mid-point in life: young enough to have an aged mother
needing his attention, old enough to have a daughter about to graduate from
high school. Other signs of mid-life’s challenges: he’s got a wife who’s as
romantically alienated from him as he is from her and a mistress who’s
threatening to end things if he doesn’t leave the wife for her. Of these four
women, it’s the daughter, Eliza, who becomes the film’s dramatic crux as the
story begins.</span></span></div>
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Romeo<span> </span>tries to take measures into his
own hands when he starts to fear his daughter won’t score the high grades she
needs on her final exams. Believing that a scholarship to a British university
is the girl’s best chance to flee the corruption and despair of their own
country, he finds himself becoming what he hates most – someone who tries to
game a corrupt system. But this is not a man who suddenly finds his worldviews
compromised; rather, he fancies himself an idealist, above deceit and graft. </span></span></div>
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really clean, however. The system around them sucks, but they’re part of that
system, too. In Graduation, that realization slowly sneaks up on you. The film
pulls you into the characters’ competing webs of lies, but it never loses sight
of their self-justifications. The people of “Graduation” are all very
believable, both persuasively Romanian and recognizable to anyone in the
middle-class West. Which is to say that Mungiu shows us lives that reflect
certain looming social forces but that also are too messy and individual to add
up to neat moral lessons. (Source:Internet )</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cristian Mungiu was born in Iași, in 1968. After studying
English Literature at university, he worked as a teacher and journalist for the
written press, radio and television. He then attended the Film and Theatre
Academy in Bucharest and first feature film, Occident, premiered at the
Directors’ Fortnight in 2002 and was a triumph back in Romania. In 2007, his
second film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was awarded the Palme d’or. The film
received and won several international distinctions.or. He returned to Cannes
in 2009 as a writer-producer-co-director with the collective film Tales from
the Golden Age and as a writer-director in 2012 with Beyond the Hills – double
awarded for Best Screenplay and Best Actresses. He was a member of the Jury
headed by Steven Spielberg at the 66th Festival de Cannes (2013). Graduation –
his fifth film presented in Cannes – won the award for Best Director in 2016.
-<span> </span><a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com/">http://www.festival-cannes.com</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Earrings of Madame de.</span></b>..<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Earrings of Madame de...,” directed in 1953 by Max
Ophuls , is one of the most mannered and contrived love movies ever filmed. It
glitters and dazzles, and beneath the artifice it creates a heart, and breaks
it. The film is famous for its elaborate camera movements, its graceful style,
its sets, its costumes and of course its jewelry. It stars Danielle Darrieux ,
Charles Boyer and Vittorio De Sica , who effortlessly embody elegance. The
story takes place in Vienna a century or so ago. The General (Boyer) has
married late, and well, to Louisa (Darrieux), a great beauty. He gives her
expensive diamond earrings as a wedding present. She sells them to meet her
debts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then fate takes over. She meets
the handsome Baron. Their tragedy is that the intensity of her love carries her
outside the rules, while the Baron remains safely in-bounds.In this charming
film, the travels of a the pair of heart-shaped diamond earrings of Louisa
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Louisa and her husband live in a society where love
affairs are more or less expected; “your suitors get on my nerves,” the General
fusses as they leave a party. If they do not know specifically who their spouse
is flirting with, they know generally. But there is a code in such affairs, and
the code permits sex, but not love. “Our marriage is only superficially
superficial,” says Monsieur de, played by Charles Boyer (in his first French
film since before the war), as he gingerly approaches the subject of her new
lover with his flighty, distracted wife. For Louisa, the earrings teach a
lesson. She is no more morally to blame than her husband or her lover, if only
adultery is at stake. But if the General's honor is the question--if being
gossiped about by the silly admiral's wife is the result--then she is to blame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">In the end nothing remains of Madame de except for the
pair of earrings — diamonds cut in the shape of a heart — which she leaves
behind as an offering in a dank neighborhood church. But as Ophüls’s camera
closes in on them, moving across the empty church to the glass case that
contains them, marked with a silver plaque with her name, we see the diamonds
have become her: glittering, transparent, icily beautiful, they are now
illuminated by a flickering candle, a trembling spirit that nothing can erase.
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<b><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Max Ophuls (1902-1957)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Max Ophuls (1902-1957) was a German who made films in Germany,
Hollywood and France. His career was used by the critic Andrew Sarris as a
foundation-stone of his auteur theory. Sarris famously advised moviegoers to
value the<i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">how</span></i>of a movie more than the<i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">what</span></i>. The story and
message are not as important, he said, as the style and art. In Ophuls, he had
a good test case, because Ophuls is seemingly the director most obsessed with
surfaces, with the visual look, with elaborate camera movements. He was
dismissed by many as nothing more than a fancy stylist, and it took Sarris (and
the French auteurists) to show what a master he was.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: small;">His films are one of the great pleasures of the cinema.
"Madame de..." is equaled by “La Ronde” (1950) and "</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lola-montes-2008"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #1f7a99; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Lola
Montes</span></a><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">" (1955) as movies whose surfaces are a voluptuous pleasure
to watch, regardless of whether you choose to plunge into their depths. The
long, impossibly complex opening shot of “La Ronde,” with the narrator
introducing us to the story and even singing a little song, is one of the
treasures of the movies. And who else has such romantic boldness that he will
show Louisa writing her Baron day after day, with no letter back, and then have
him tell her when they finally meet: “I always answered your letters, my
love--but I lacked the courage to mail them.” And then to show his unmailed
letters torn into bits and flung into the air to become snow.</span></span></div>
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</b>A film by Hirokazu Kore-eda<br />2016/ Japan/ 117minutes/ <br />5.45pm/ 30<sup>th</sup> April 2017/ Perks Mini Theater<br />http://konangalfilmsociety.blogspot.nl/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AFTER THE STORM is a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">main story belongs to Ryota. He is a prize-winning novelist who hasn’t published anything for 15 years and is currently working in a private detective agency. His family life is shattered after the divorce. He longs to be with his son. He tries to make amends with his ex-wife. Nothing seems to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ryota asks many questions over the course of 'After the Storm'. The most prominent, perhaps, is "Why did my life turn out like this?" Fate brings the family together for a few hours with Ryota's mother. After the Storm's director Hirokazu Kore-eda is at his best in moments of togetherness, an artist who believes in the power of family without advocating for a return to the womb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda's stories, such as they are, unfold in unlikely ways. He doesn't play so much with structure, but with focus: He'll allow a scene to go on and on before slipping in a crucial bit of narrative information that sends the story off in a new direction. We can lose ourselves in these films — wondering what's around every corner and what's going on in the mind of even the most minor of characters. AFTER THE STORM is Kore-eda's achingly beautiful ode to the quiet complexities of family life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda was born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at TV Man Union. Sneaked off set to film _Lessons from a Calf (1991)_. His first feature, Maboroshi no hikari (1995), based on a Teru Miyamoto novel and drawn from his own experiences whilst filming _August Without Him (1994)_, won jury prizes at Venice and Chicago. The main themes of his oeuvre include memory and loss, death and loss, and the intersection of documentary and fictional narratives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a short period of time, Hirozaku Koreeda has gained a solid reputation as one of the most significant figures of contemporary Japanese cinema. His oeuvre is currently comprised of eight films including his television documentary work with TV Man Union, Inc. and his narrative films (After Life, Maborosi) which reflect the contemplative style and pacing of such luminaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. He has become a cinematographic tightrope walker who almost unnoticeably switches between fictitious and real territories, between narration and invention, the private and the public.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charulata, Ray's favorite film, is based on the popular novella Nastaneer (The Broken Nest) by the great Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Asian writer and poet to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The film is set in 1870s Calcutta and the overwhelming majority of it takes place inside the lavish home of an ambitious and very patriotic newspaper editor who rarely has time to talk to his beautiful wife. He loves her, but he loves his country even more. Knowing well that the future of India will likely be determined by the winners in the upcoming elections in England, he writes articles that frequently highlight the views promoted by the Liberal Party. During an unusually hot summer day, </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This excellent film directed by the great Satyajit Ray tells two different stories. The first is that of a young woman who is trying to listen to her heart in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the beautiful cage she has been placed in, however, writing is the only thing that occasionally makes her feel alive. The second and less obvious story is about a country looking for a new direction. As the film progresses, it becomes clear that there is tension in the air that could inspire dramatic events. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ray never delivers any political statements in the film, but it is easy to tell that like Charulata the country is quietly frustrated with the role that has been chosen for it. The beauty of the film comes from its calmness and simplicity. Ray follows the conversations between the three protagonists without ever forcing the viewer to side with any of them. They exist and Ray and his camera are there to simply capture the moments they share. However, all of this, the observation and the acting, is done with a tremendous sense of effortless grace and elegance that makes viewing Charulata a very special experience. (Source:Internet)</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921 in Calcutta into a Bengali family of a distinguished cultural lineage. After graduating from the famous Presidency College of Calcutta, Ray enrolled in the Visva-Bharati University founded by noted poet Rabindranath Tagore. During his stint in the Visva-Bharati, Ray's creative faculties were enriched by the exposure to different nuances of fine arts. Consequent to the course completion, Satyajit Ray joined advertising agency D.J. Keymer as a visualiser. After a couple of award-winning assignments, he joined publishing house Signet Press with the responsibility of designing cover jackets for books. While the job itself was an exercise in creativity, more importantly it led to Ray's first brush with the cream of Bengali literature. He gradually developed a passion for films and with a few friends founded the Calcutta Film Society in 1947.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">British director Ken Loach will be 80 years old in June, and he has worked in film and television for more than 50 of those years, but with his bone-deep empathy for the desperate and the downtrodden. “I, Daniel Blake” is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation that tells its story with an unblinking neorealist simplicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel Blake, a widower with no children, has recently suffered a heart attack and receives an Employment and Support Allowance from the British state. But then, for no good reason, his benefits are denied; the state wants him to go back to work — even though his physician is on record as saying he can’t. The movie takes us through the agony of the appeals process, which is a much bigger nightmare than it sounds like. The story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved. His one friend is Katie, the quick-tempered single mother whom Daniel befriends, becoming a gentle, grandfatherly figure to her two kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel works to give the system every benefit of the doubt, until it insults his very being, at which point he has an impromptu “Attica!” moment. But it’s only a moment. The quiet beauty of “I, Daniel Blake” — the reason it’s the rare political drama that touches the soul — is that we believe, completely, in these people standing in front of us, as Ken Loach and the actors have imagined them. And when the movie ends, we feel like we won’t forget them. I, Daniel Blake is a movie with a fierce, simple dignity of its own. (Source: Internet)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ken Loach attended King Edward VIGrammar School and following two years in the RAF read law at St Peter's College, Oxford. In 1966 Loach made the socially influential docu-drama Cathy Come Home. In the late 1960s he started directing films, and in 1969 made Kes. It remains perhaps his best known film in Britain. Loach experienced a miraculous, creative resurgence in the 1990s with the advent of Channel 4 funding and producers Sally Hibbin and Rebecca O'Brien. His recent films invest warmth and humour in their characters' plights while allowing political alternatives to develop naturally out of the narratives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ken Loach is a director admired, and often loved, all over the world. For his remarkable output, Loach has won numerous international prizes and long overdue critical recognition . Despite political ebb and flow, fickle artistic trends and film financing difficulties, he remains steadfast in his commitment to progressive ideals and a personal cinema. Loach's films are art of the highest order. While exposing the failings and limitations of human experience, they also provide a path to change and progress. His body of work firmly celebrates the fact that life is worth living. (Source: Internet)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confusion and wrong assumptions are the cause of tragedy in this stylish gangster noir. Maurice (Serge Reggiani) and Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) are friends going way back, and both have had a shady past. Silien wants to leave and retire. Doubts assail Maurice as well as others on Silien . It is finally decided that something has to be done about Silien.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Film-maker Jean-Pierre Melville's life was a running battle with critics and fans alike. But the 'garlic gangster' won in the end. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in Paris, France, Melville, who was an Alsatian Jew, served in World War II and fought in Operation Dragoon. When he returned from the war he applied for a license to become an assistant director, but was refused. Without this support, he decided to direct his films by his own means.He became an independent film-maker, owning his own studios, and became well known for his tragic, minimalist film noirs, such as Le Samouraï (1967) and Le Cercle rouge (1969), starring major, charismatic actors like Alain Delon (probably the definitive 'Melvillian' actor), Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura. His directorial style was influenced by American cinema and fetishized accessories like weapons, clothes and especially hats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“About Elly” the fourth feature from talented Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi opens with a group of Iranian college friends—among them three couples, two with children—decamping to a rustic villa on the scenic banks of the Caspian Sea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They have organised this trip quite impulsively: when they arrive, there is some confusion about where they are supposed to be staying, and they have to move into a beachfront villa that happens to be vacant, but is chaotic and derelict. And there is something else. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the party, the vivacious Sepideh has invited along someone of whom they know next to nothing: a young woman called Elly , who is their children's teacher. Mischievous Sepideh is hoping to set Elly up with the single friend in their party: Ahmad, who is recently divorced and has just returned from a long stay doing business in Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asghar Farhadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1972. Whilst at school he became interested in writing, drama and the cinema, took courses at the Iranian Young Cinema Society and started his career as a filmmaker by making super 8mm and 16mm films. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Film Direction from Tehran University in 1998.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During his studies, he not only wrote and directed student plays, but also wrote plays for national radio and directed for television with such shows as the hit series Tale of a City.In 2001, Farhadi wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia’s box-office and critical success Low heights. His directorial debut was with 2003’s Dancing in the Dust. This film went on to participate in the Moscow Film Festival, where it won both the Best Leading Actor and Film Critics awards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Farhadi made his second feature film, Beautiful City, in 2004 which won the Best feature film award at the Warsaw Film Festival 2004, the India International Film Festival and Moscow’s Faces of Love Film Festival. “Chahar shanbeh souri / Fireworks Wednesday”, his third feature, award winner at the Locarno International Film Festival 2006, has also been successful in other international festivals. The film has been released in both Europe and the USA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 19 December 2011, he was announced as being on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, scheduled to be held in February 2012. On 15 January 2012, his movie Nader and Simin, A Separation won the Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film.The film was also the official Iranian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards where apart from getting nominated[7] in this category, it also received a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category. On the 26 February 2012, Nader and Simin, A Separation became the first Iranian movie to have received an Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 84th edition of the Academy Awards. This marked Farhadi as the first Iranian to have won an Academy Award in any of the competitive categories.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with the themes that controlled his art. Alfred Hitchcock took universal
emotions, like fear, guilt and lust, placed them in ordinary characters, and
developed them in images more than in words. A thematic analysis can only
scratch the surface of this extraordinarily dense and commanding film, perhaps
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Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through
intelligent plots witty dialogue and a spoonful of mystery and murder. In doing
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number of films in Britain such as "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and
Jamaica Inn (1939), some of them which also made him famous in the USA. David
O. Selznick, an American producer at the time, got in touch with Hitchcock and
the Hitchcock family moved to the USA to direct an adaptation of Daphne du
Maurier's Rebecca (1940). It was when Saboteur (1942) was made, that films
companies began to call his films after him. He retired soon after making
Family Plot (1976).In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred
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Konangal http://www.blogger.com/profile/14223156431134460302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1267989807261233289.post-48615198312894323642016-09-14T12:25:00.000+05:302016-09-14T12:35:54.916+05:3018th Sept 2016; MUSTANG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A beautifully mounted story about
the demonization of young female sexuality in a remote Turkish village.Though
set in Turkey, shot in Turkish, and telling a Turkish story about the
demonization of female sexuality, Deniz Gamze Erguven’s beautifully mounted
debut, “Mustang,” has an unmistakable West European sensibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the story of five orphaned girls who live in a sizeable,
well-furnished home “a thousand kilometres from Istanbul,” but a century from
any notion of women’s rights. With their parents dead, they are raised by their
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soften the bleakness of what’s playing out on the screen. Ergüven’s camera
gravitates toward the hazy light that streams in through the windows of the
girls’ house, even as it quickly becomes more akin to a prison. She revels in
the sisters’ beauty, youth, and spirit focusing in particular on their long,
untamed hair (a reference to the the animal in the title), as it catches the
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Turkey, grew up and went to school in France. In 2011 Ergüven was invited to
attend the Cannes Film Festivals Atelier to help develop her project, The
Kings. While there she met fellow director Alice Winocour who was there to
develop her first feature film Augustine. After Ergüven was unable to find
financing for her film Winocour suggested she write a more intimate piece
leading the two to begin work on the script for Mustang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her debut film Mustang premiered
in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it
won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. It later played in the Special
Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film
was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th
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multiple César Awards, winning the César Award for Best First Feature Film as
well as the César Award for Best Original Screenplay.</span></div>
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Konangal http://www.blogger.com/profile/14223156431134460302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1267989807261233289.post-76081706490138263432016-09-01T12:32:00.002+05:302016-09-01T12:32:23.273+05:304th Sept 2016; Ozu's FLOATING WEEDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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later, everyone who loves movies comes to Ozu. He is the quietest and gentlest
of directors, the most humanistic, the most serene. But the emotions that flow
through his films are strong and deep, because they reflect the things we care
about the most.“Floating Weeds” (1959) is like a familiar piece of music that
you can turn to for reassurance and consolation. It is so atmospheric--so
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low angle opening montage of an idyllic Japanese coastal province defines the
understated, cinematic poetry of Yasujiro Ozu: a lighthouse framed against a
tranquil sea; docked boats undulating with the sweeping waves; villagers
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kabuki show, lead by an aging performer, Master Komajuro . It is a tenuous
homecoming for Komajuro. Ozu expertly weaves the narrarative through Komajuro's
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use of low camera height provides more than just a directorial signature style
in Floating Weeds. As in Tokyo Story, the atmosphere is intimate and
accessible. The characters appear grounded, human, reflecting Ozu's respect for
the dignity of the common man. The camera does not wander, but retains focus on
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understand Komajuro because he is all too human: the aging actor at the
twilight of his career; the leader faced with the dissolution of his failed
troupe; the father ashamed to reveal his deception. He has transcended the
great samurais of his struggling plays, stripped of their cosmetic facade, and
is rewarded with compassion and humanity. "Nothing is constant under the
sun," someone observes, and this is very much a film which acknowledges
the transience of human lives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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on December 12, 1903 in Tokyo. He and his two brothers were educated in the
countryside, in Matsuzaka, whilst his father sold fertilizer in Tokyo. Ozu
developed a love of film during his early days of school truancy, but his
fascination began when he first saw a Matsunosuke historical spectacular at the
Atagoza cinema in Matsuzaka. Ozu's uncle, aware of his nephew's love of film,
introduced him to Teihiro Tsutsumi, then manager of Shochiku. Not long after,
Ozu began working for the great studio—against his father's wishes—as an
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assistant cameraman involved pure physical labour, lifting and moving equipment
at Shochiku's TokyoThe Sword Of Penitence that became his first film as
director (and only period piece) in 1927. Ozu was called up into the army
reserves before shooting was completed. No negative, prints or script exist of
The Sword Of Penitence—and, sadly, only 36 out of 54 Ozu films still exist.
studios in Kamata. After becoming assistant director to Tadamoto Okubo, it took
less than a year for Ozu to put his first script forward for filming. It was in
fact his second script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(Wakaki Hi, 1929) is Ozu's earliest extant picture, though not especially
typical (and preceded by seven others, now lost) as it is set on ski slopes.
Stylistically it is rife with close-ups, fade-outs and tracking shots, all of
which Ozu was later to leave behind. Three years later came what is generally
recognized as Ozu's first major film, I Was Born, But... (Umarete wa Mita
Keredo..., 1932). This moving comedy/drama was a great success in Japan both
critically and financially. It was one of cinema's finest works about children.
Thirty years into his filmmaking career Ozu was making films which, like
Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), questioned the sense of spending your whole working
life behind a desk—something that many of his audience must have been doing.
Ozu's films represent a lifelong study of the Japanese family and the changes
that a family unit experiences. He ennobles the humdrum world of the
middle-class family and has been regarded as “the most Japanese of all
filmmakers”, not just by Western critics, but also by his countrymen.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ravages of colonialism cast a dark pall over the stunning South American landscape in “Embrace of the Serpent,” the latest visual astonishment from the gifted Colombian writer-director Ciro Guerra. Charting two parallel journeys deep into the Amazon, each one undertaken by a European explorer and a local shaman, this bifurcated narrative delivers a fairly comprehensive critique of the destruction of indigenous cultures at the hands of white invaders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Impossible to describe in words its beauty and splendor,” the Dutch explorer Theodor von Martins wrote of the Colombian Amazon in 1909, and no words are needed in light of David Gallego’s majestic lensing, his widescreen compositions capturing a lush rainforest setting in sharp, exquisitely subtle shades of monochrome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The film’s central figure is A young shaman named Karamakate, last survivor of the Cohiuano, an Amazonian tribe killed off by the rubber barons. He is no innocent, noble savage but an angry, morally complex individual with a heart full of grief. It’s sometime during the early 1900s . Theo a German explorer with his local guide is searching for the Yakuna, an exceedingly rare flower that could heal him of his sickness with the help of Karamakate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every so often, the film jumps 40 years into the future to join a rugged American named Evan as he enlists an older Karamakate to retrace his steps on a hunt for the same flower plant — snaking together these parallel journeys into a mesmeric call and response. Towards the end the film moves to mystical higher ground, as abhorrence expands into awe. Shot in dreamy black and white, spoken in nine separate languages, and told with an unerring devotion to authenticity this film is a fitting requiem for the ravages of white hegemony (source: Internet)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra wove magical realism into stories of his native country and its people into a trio of award-winning features, including the Oscar-nominated "Embrace of the Serpent" (2015). Born February 6, 1981 in the town of Rio de Oro, Colombia, Guerra studied film and television at the National University of Colombia before directing a trio of shorts - the live action "Silence" (1998) and "Alma" (2001) and the animated short "Intento" (2002) - and "Documental Siniestro: Jairo Pinilla, Cineasta" ("Sinister Documentary: Jairo Pinilla, Filmmaker," 1999), which focused on the eponymous Colombian cult director. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2004, Guerra released his first feature-length directorial effort, "Wandering Shadows," a drama about a disabled man whose Dickensian life in a Bogota barrio is improved by a mysterious stranger. "Shadows" won the Films in Progress award from the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and paved the way for his second feature, "Los viajes del viento" ("The Wind Journeys," 2009), with Colombian musician Marciano Martinez as a folk musician who embarks on a journey to return his accordion - an instrument supposedly won in a duel with the Devil - to his former master. Another critical success, the film earned Guerra the Award of the City of Rome at the 2009 Cannes Film </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shot on location in a remote corner of the Amazon River in Colombia, and photographed in stark black-and-white imagery, "Embrace of the Serpent" concerned a four-decade search for a legendary plant with alleged healing powers conducted by a shaman - the last member of his tribe - and two scientists. Based on the diaries of the real scientists, "Serpent" was hailed by international critics, and earned a slew of laurels, from a 2016 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film to the Art Cinema award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. </span><br />
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terrain. So begins The Wind Will Carry Us—one of the great films by Iranian
master Abbas Kiarostami.<br />
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A busy video producer/engineer Behzad from Tehran is sent to
a remote Iranian village to capture an obscure burial ceremony. But the
'subject' of his film , Mrs. Malek is ill, not dead, forcing the man and his
production crew to slow down, linger in the village, and mingle with the local
families. Along the way, the engineer encounters a radically different
lifestyle than his own, with different priorities. In doing so, his perspective
on the natural world is changed.<br />
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Behzad recites a poem in the film , a poem by Furugh
Farrukhzad (1935-67), one of the most extraordinary Persian or Iranian female
poets of the twentieth century, which gives the film its title and which treats
the central conflict in the film, “life in the face of death.” In Iran, people
at all social levels know poetry and quote it to each other constantly, for all
sorts of reasons Poetry and Sufism. Both are useful coordinates for anyone
trying to get a fix on the intent behind this gorgeous, semi-opaque film, The
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This film is remarkable in its sustained pace, perspective,
and ability to focus so sharply on a single character without revealing too
much of that character, allowing him to retain a sense of mystery and
delightful ambiguity. In the title sequence of The Wind Will Carry Us absences
define presences in numerous ways. In fact, many major characters in the film
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never seen. Most of the sequence unfolds in semidarkness.<br />
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The Wind Will Carry Us offers an intricately constructed
spatial world that's as breathtakingly beautiful, as various, and as cosmically
evocative as a Brueghel landscape -- a world teeming with diverse kinds of life
and activity -- and it teases us whenever we want to get to know this world
better, seducing and evading us at the same time. If you're open to the
possibility that the world is bigger than you typically give it credit for, and
you're willing to invest some effort in letting go of your usual way of seeing,
this film will be a revelation for you. (From Internet)<br />
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Abbas Kiarostami, the Iranian filmmaker who is widely
considered one of the world's greatest living directors has written and
directed some 41 movies since the early 1970s, and has been compared by critics
to such titans of international cinema as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa.</div>
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In her survey of recent achievements in film, Susan Sontag
declared, “Iranian cinema has been the great revelation of the last decade.”
Surely one of those largely responsible for this phenomenon is the screenwriter
and director Abbas Kiarostami. Few new films draw comparisons to classics like
Mr. Bergman's "Wild Strawberries," Michelangelo Antonioni's "Red
Desert" or Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt." Mr. Kiarostami's movies
not only evoke such parallels; they also seem to infuse the beleaguered
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Born in Tehran in 1940, Kiarostami worked as a commercial
artist and children’s book illustrator until he was invited to lead the
department of cinema at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of
Children and Young Adults. Given this background, it’s not surprising that many
of his projects feature children. Kiarostami is a graduate of Tehran
University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in Painting</div>
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Mr. Kiarostami's own filmmaking began at the end of the
1960's when the loose-knit movement later labeled the Iranian New Wave was just
gaining steam. One hallmark of Mr. Kiarostami's work is its esthetic
consistency. "Bread and Alley," the first short he made, in 1970, has
qualities that distinguish his films up to "Taste of Cherry": a
lyrical but concrete feel for the particulars of place and visual atmosphere; a
way of eliciting strikingly natural performances from nonactors; and stories in
which an anecdotal surface disguises a rich substratum of philosophical,
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Mr. Kiarostami did not consider leaving the country during
the Iranian revolution of 1978-79, he said, "because of a revolution going
on in my own house." His own marriage was failing. Pierre Rissient, an
executive with Ciby 2000, the French company that handles worldwide sales of
"Taste of Cherry," says that Mr. Kiarostami "proceeds the way
the Greek philosophers like Heraclitus do, or Chinese figures like Laotzu, or
Japanese Zen poets like Basho -- the poetry is completely linked with
philosophy."</div>
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The protagonists of his films are the ordinary people who
surround us. Their lives represent no more and no less of what constitute ours.
Their presence in films provides us with an opportunity to think about the everydayness
of our existence and relationships; an opportunity to see them as a mirror that
reflects the depth of our human feelings and thoughts.</div>
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Abbas Kiarostami's films seek to uncover the deepest human
emotions in the most ordinary events in life. His works are a demonstration of
the significance and relevance of these emotions to the restless, captive, and
tormented individuals of the twentieth century.</div>
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Everything in Kiarostami's films speaks to the matter at
hand. His films direct the spectator toward central human problems. He has
deeply-held ideas and feelings. He wants to say certain things about life. So
he doesn't waste his time or ours. Nothing has been done merely for effect, to
impress the spectator, to enhance the director's reputation. There aren't so
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Kiarastomi passed away in Paris on 4<sup>th</sup> July thus
year. He was later buried in a private ceremony in northern Tehran. Thousands
of Iranians bid tearful farewell to their country’s greatest filmmaker.<br />
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he is tormented by guilt from a cowardly “sin” committed years ago under Nazi
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iniquities. He considers himself as “stained” by sin, and accordingly neglects
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Filaret—find Anatoly an obnoxious prankster who speaks in riddles and “cultivates
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a study of forgiveness (of oneself and others) whose title—poet John Donne
might agree—references one man’s inner isolation as well as his geographic
remoteness. And while arctic environs
are harsh, director Pavel Lounguine collages some beautiful imagery (all
symbolic) here—from craggy rocks and lichen-covered hills to raging waters and
charred timbers. (From Internet)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Pavel
Semyonovich Lungin s a Russian film director.
Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the opportunity to
direct Taxi Blues at age 40. Lungin was awarded the Best Director Prize at 1990
Cannes Film Festival for the film Taxi Blues starring Pyotr Mamonov. That same
year he took up residence in France, while making films in and about Russia with
French producers. Two years later, his next film Luna Park would also compete
at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the
18th Moscow International Film Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Lungin’s last
film Ostrov (The Island, 2006) is a penetrating drama of sublimation of the
soul. According to the official site of Lungin Studio, in the mid October the
film-director finished another feature film under the title Cruelty. In 2007
Lungin is going to release Vetka Sireni (Lilacs), a life story of Sergei
Rachmaninoff.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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portrait of a young boy, Billy, who finds, befriends, tames, and trains a
kestrel, aptly named Kes. This boy and this bird, and this film, do not attain,
nor do they even seek to begin with, the sort of sentimentality that a movie about
a child and an animal can typically denote. It’s much more than that, much more
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The film follows Billy as he tries to make his way through
the grim and at times quite aggressive world of his downtrodden, working-class
English town, seeking solace in his time with Kes, finding a refuge from the
hostilities of family strife, torment at school, and an otherwise stagnant
existence; shots of the bird soaring freely through the overcast skies stand as
sharp contrasts and perhaps as sources of envy for the boy who seems to find
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Contrasting the desolation and spiritual poverty of Billy's
oppressively confining environ<span style="text-align: left;">ment against his liberating, almost meditative ritual of kestrel training in the open field, Loach creates a sublimely transitory, yet indelible image of natural communion, existential purpose, and transcendence.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936, Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
England) British film director whose works are considered landmarks of social
realism. Loach studied law at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, but while there he
became interested in acting. After graduating in 1957, he spent two years in
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Loach continued to address social issues on television and
later in theatrical releases as well. In the 1960s Loach directed several
docudramas for a television series called The Wednesday Play. One of the
productions, Cathy Come Home (1966), explored the disintegration of a
working-class family and examined the intertwined issues of unemployment and
homelessness. In doing so, it helped bring the discussion of homelessness into
the British mainstream. He has been honored with awards and praises for all over the world ever since.</div>
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One can but admire Loach for relentlessly sticking to his
task, repeatedly championing the underdog by revealing the hardships and
struggles of those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Few directors have
been as consistent in their themes and their filmic style, or as principled in
their politics, as Loach has in a career spanning five decades. Without doubt
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Konangal http://www.blogger.com/profile/14223156431134460302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1267989807261233289.post-82550958451804733952016-05-18T13:06:00.004+05:302016-05-18T13:08:15.782+05:3022nd May 2016 ; Chaitanya Tamhane's 'COURT'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2014 / Maharashtra/ Marathi / 116
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class, bureaucracy, and censorial stupidity, young film maker Chaitanya
Tamhane's debut feature, Court, plants viewers in the plastic chairs of an
Indian court of law as 69-year-old protest singer Narayan Kamble (Vira
Sathidar) is tried for a crime he didn't commit.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-plm1m6veEZ8/VzwUHFY3OvI/AAAAAAAAGOs/9PFOY4b9fg0GpC2jRTtWez4Sq1tg5cT5gCLcB/s1600/C%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-plm1m6veEZ8/VzwUHFY3OvI/AAAAAAAAGOs/9PFOY4b9fg0GpC2jRTtWez4Sq1tg5cT5gCLcB/s640/C%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">A well- to-do
activist lawyer (Vivek Gomber, who has also produced the film) represents
Kamble in court while the public prosecutor (Geetanjali Kulkarni) fights tooth
and nail to ensure he stays in jail. At one point she even cites archaic laws
to claim that the elderly singer is a threat to the sovereignty of India. The
defense lawyer knows very well that these laws are antiquated and irrelevant,
but apart from being patient and carrying on the fight, there is precious
little he can do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Beyond
criticism of India’s judiciary, the director implicitly implicates the
country’s education system, which creates professionals skilled in rote
learning yet completely lacking in independent thinking. Where the trial scenes
use the legal system’s ponderous rules to hang itself, sequences showing the
lawyers outside working hours reveal, via exceptionally nuanced observations,
the sorts of influences and lives led by the two sides. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up being a great courtroom drama: it treats the audience as both witness and
jury and lays out a sprawling argument for them to ponder over. It’s hard to
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Mumbai in 1987, Chaitanya Tamhane is an English literature graduate from
Mithibai College of Arts. He has written and directed a feature-length
documentary titled FOUR STEP PLAN (2006), chronicling the trends of plagiarism
in Indian cinema. His first full-length play as a writer-director, Grey
Elephants in Denmark opened to critical acclaim in Mumbai and had several
successful shows at prestigious venues. SIX STRANDS (2010), his first fictional
short film was screened at various international film festivals including
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debut feature film, COURT (2014), premiered at the 71<sup>st</sup> Venice Film
Festival, where it won the Lion of the Future award for best debut and the
Orizzonti award for Best film. Since
then, the film has gone on to win 16 international awards at various
prestigious film festivals. He was recently featured in Forbes India‘s list of
30 young Indian achievers under the age of 30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Konangal http://www.blogger.com/profile/14223156431134460302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1267989807261233289.post-41557296940033256502016-04-19T12:06:00.001+05:302016-04-19T12:24:34.081+05:3024th April 2016 ; Wim Wender's WINGS OF DESIRE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wim Wender's celestial tribute to life, love, Berlin,
filmmaking, angels and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, among many things. .Seen
through the (black-and-white) lens of veteran French cinematographer Henri
Alekan and reflected in the gentle eyes of Wenders' star angel Bruno Ganz,
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angels, placed on Earth to look after human beings. They are witnesses, and
they have been watching for a long time--since the beginning. The film evokes a
mood of reverie, elegy and meditation. It doesn’t rush headlong into plot, but
has the patience of its angels. It suggests what it would be like to see
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Born in Dusseldorf in Germany just after the end of World
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for movies. After studying medicine and philosophy in his native country,
Wenders took up art study in and then returned to his homeland to attend
Munich's Academy of Film and Television. Wenders began his career writing film
criticism before directing a few short subjects of his own; in 1970 he and
several other young filmmakers formed a production-distribution firm,
Filmverlag Der Autoren. Summer in the City (1970) was Wenders' first feature
film, but it was his 1973 adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
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a sense, redeemed by cinema. Gett is the Hebrew word for a legal divorce
document in Jewish law. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">This is the ordeal of a woman’s attempt to divorce her
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limited space of a courtroom and using uniquely subjective visual aesthetic,
“Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” is Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz’s third
feature film as a directing team. Ronit Elkabetz also stars in the film as
Viviane, a character they developed based on their mother’s life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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powerful life by Ronit Elkabetz with currents of humility and hauteur — is at
once a fleshed-out character, a political metaphor, a shout to heaven and
earth. Despite a part requiring long periods of silence, her character’s
emotions are as visible — and as changeable — as clouds passing in the sky.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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every means to convince her to remake the couple. The action takes place almost
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room. Despite the seemingly uncinematic
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utterly. It’s at once a feminist film, obviously, and a larger story about
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/ film maker was the oldest of four children, with three younger siblings who
were all brothers. Her younger brother Shlomi, became a director whom she
worked with on their trilogy on the life of Viviane Amsalem.Her acting career
started in 1991. n May 2010, Ronit Elkabetz received the France Culture award
at the Cannes Film Festival, a prize awarded to filmmakers for quality work and
social involvement. The judges described her as a "woman teeming with
passion and erotica, who can even play the queen of Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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born in 1972 in Be'er Sheva,Israel. After completing his military service, he
decided he wanted to work in film. He traveled in the Far East and went on to
New York, where he remained for seven years. He wrote prose and plays, and also
acted; at a certain stage he and Ronit began to write the screenplay for
"To Take a Wife," incorporating into it autobiographical elements. In
2000 he returned to Israel. The film, which came out five years later, won
various prizes, including the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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playfully treats themes that Kurosawa could turn into the grimmest of
anatomizations of human nature. Toshiro Mifune is at the fore, but the real
focus of the story is on a pair of escaped thieves who, despite their initial
bickerings, soon become friends of an almost co-dependent nature. They are
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Japanese epic ever committed to the screen. THE HIDDEN FORTRESS should leave
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Kurosawa was the youngest of seven children, born in Tokyo on 23 March 1910. A
talented painter, he enrolled in an art school that emphasized Western styles.
Around this time he also joined an artists' group with a great enthusiasm for
nineteenth-century Russian literature, with Dostoevsky a particular favourite.
Another influence was Heigo, one of his brothers, who loved film and worked as
a benshi, a film narrator/commentator for foreign silent films. His suicide
deeply affected the director's sensibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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responded to a newspaper advertisement for assistant directors at a fi</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lm studio
and began assisting Kajiro Yamamoto, who liked the fact he knew 'a lot about
things other than movies'. Within five years he was writing scripts and
directing whole sequences for Yamamoto films. In 1943 he made his debut as a
director with Judo Saga (Sanshiro Sugata), with a magnificent martial-arts
sequence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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films were produced during the Second World War, so had to comply to themes
prescribed by official state propaganda policy. It was Drunken Angel which was
Kurosawa's first personally expressive work, made in 1948 and featuring Toshiro
Mifune who became Kurosawa's favourite leading man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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discover Kurosawa, they will find a master technician and stylist, with a deep
humanism and compassion for his characters and an awe of the enormity of
nature. He awakened the West to Japanese cinema with Rashomon, which won the
top prize in the Venice Film Festival of 1951, and also a special Oscar for
best foreign film. A golden period followed, with the West enthralled by his
work. Seven Samurai, Yojimbo etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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auteur, he supervised the editing of nearly all his films and wrote or
collaborated on the scripts of most. His memoirs were published in 1982, titled
Something like an Autobiography. In 1989 he won an Oscar for Lifetime
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Sissako's passionate and visually beautiful film Timbuktu is a cry from the
heart – with all the more moral authority for being expressed with such grace
and such care. It is a portrait of the country of his childhood, the west
African state of Mali, and in particular the city of Timbuktu, whose rich and
humane traditions are being trampled by fanatical jihadis, often from outside
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revolves around the death of a cow, affectionately named "GPS" – an
appropriate symbol for a country that has lost its way. A great deal of the
film is focused on a family of cattle herders living in the dunes outside of
Timbuktu, the paterfamilias of which, Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed), comes under
jihadist judgment in the aftermath of a conflict with a local fisherman over
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puritans appal the local imam, who has long upheld the existing traditions of a
benevolent and tolerant Islam; they march into the mosque carrying arms. Timbuktu is no longer tombouctou la
mysterieuse, the magical place of legend, but a harsh, grim, unforgiving place
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Sissako confirms his status as one of the true humanists of recent cinema with
this stunningly shot and deeply empathetic drama. In the hands of a master,
indignation and tragedy can be rendered with clarity yet subtlety, setting
hysteria aside for deeper, more richly shaded tones. Sissako is just such a
master, and while previous films have showcased his skill at bringing magnetic
dignity to his characters, “Timbuktu” confirms his status as one of the true
humanists of recent cinema. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sissako was born in Kiffa, Mauritania, in 1961 and raised in Mali, his father’s
homeland. When he returned to Mauritania in 1980, the emotional and financial
difficulties of adjustment made him turn to literature and film. A study grant
allowed him to attend the Institute of the University of Moscow. Le Jeu (1989),
first presented as a graduation assignment, won the prize for best short at the
Giornate del Cinema Africano of Perugia in 1991. In 1993, October was shown at
Locarno and won prizes the world over. His film Waiting for Happiness was
screened at Cannes 2002 and was winner of the FIPRESCI award for best film in
the Un certain regard section. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril
Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a
measure of international influence. His 2014 film Timbuktu was selected to
compete for the Palme d’Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes
Film Festival, garnered a 2015 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign
Language Film, and swept the 2015 Cesar Awards in France winning seven awards,
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of the cinema, and "Au Hasard Balthazar" (1966) is his most
heartbreaking prayer. The film's title character/protagonist is a donkey -- not
a humanoid, Disney donkey but a realistic animal who, in the film's opening
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and provide occasional transportation. His harsh, often exploited existence is
paralleled through the life of Marie, a reticent young woman whose father has
been asked to maintain a friend's farm. The owner's son, Jacques, returns to
the farm to profess his support for Marie's father, whose reputation has been
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">French new wave
film maker Godard’s famous claim that Au hasard Balthazar is “the world
in an hour and a half” suggests how dense, how immense Bresson’s brief,
elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey is. The film’s steady
accumulation of incident, characters, mystery, and social detail, its
implicative use of sound, offscreen space, and editing, have the miraculous
effect of turning the director’s vaunted austerity into endless plenitude,
which is perhaps the central paradox of Bresson’s cinema. So concentrated and
oblique is Balthazar, it achieves the density, to extend Godard’s metaphor just
a little, of an imploded nova.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Au Hasard Balthazar is a haunting, subtly disturbing, and
thematically uncompromising portrait of man's innate cruelty and destructive
impulses. Through the transfiguration of a mistreated animal as an allegorical
symbol of virtue, purity, and redemption, Robert Bresson creates a visually
spare and indelible film of startling intensity: the symbolic image of Marie,
Gerard, and Balthazar in the snow; the framed shot of a humiliated Marie
against the back closet of the farmhouse; the final, sublime shot of Balthazar
with the grazing sheep. Alone in the countryside, wandering and without
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Robert Bresson’s 13 features over 40 years constitute
arguably the most original and brilliant body of work over a long career from a
film director in the history of cinema. He is the most idiosyncratic and
uncompromising of all major filmmakers, in the sense that he always tried to
create precisely what he wanted without surrendering to considerations of
commerce, audience popularity, or people’s preconceptions of what cinema should
be. And although it might be argued that his venture into colour from Une Femme
douce (1969) onwards was probably against his better judgement, he shows
mastery in its use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Born in central France and educated in Paris, Bresson’s
early ambition was to be a painter. He ventured into filmmaking with the short
Les Affaires publiques (1934). a satire with nods to Clair and Vigo, which was
rediscovered in the 1980s after being thought lost. After a year or so as a
prisoner-of-war he was approached by a Paris priest with a proposal for a film
about the Bethany order of nuns, which became Les Anges du péché (1943). His
next feature was also made during the Occupation, and filmmaking had by then
definitely supplanted painting. The confusion over his date of birth, symbolic
perhaps of his reclusive nature, caused reviewers of his final filmL’Argent
(1983) to marvel over how a man "in his late 70s" or alternatively
"in his 80s" could show such youthful exuberance in his filmmaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">A critic once wrote that Mizoguchi’s Sansho Dayu (1954)
"is one of those films for whose sake the cinema exists". For many of
us, the same can be said of the work of Robert Bresson.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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