A K Hangal – The Grand Old Man of Indian Cinema

What is creditable while watching the sequence in Sholay is all eyes automatically focus on A K Hangal in spite of all the stars being present. It is Hangal Saab who has been instrumental in grabbing viewer’s attention in ‘Itna sannata kyon hai bhai’. On one side we celebrated the centenary year of Indian Cinema […]

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Traces Of Modern Mannerism In Today’s Cinema

If you’re not very familiar with the mannerist art movement of the 1500’s, I’ll bring you up to speed. Chronologically, we have Ancient and Classical art styles varying from ancient Egyptian frescoes to 4th Century arches and mosaics from the eastern Roman Empire(15000BC to ~350AD). Followed by Medieval (most commonly found it bibles) and the […]

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Indie

Indie: Definition of Indie 1: impartial one; particularly: an unaffiliated file or motion-picture manufacturing firm 2: one thing (corresponding to a file or movie) produced by an indie — Indie adjective From www.merriam-webster.com In the event you think about your self an indie artist, you most likely already know what the phrase “Indie” means. Put merely, it’s an abbreviation of the

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దేశదిమ్మరి CINEMA

ఈ సంవత్సరమే కనిపెట్టబడి  అందరినీ కలవరపెడుతున్న “INTOLERANCE” అనే జాడ్యానికి నివారణ లేదు నియంత్రణ ఒక్కటే మార్గం.ఈ సినిమాలో ఒక solution ఉంది.అన్నీ వదిలేసి దేశ దిమ్మరిలా తిరగటమే.సన్యాసిలా జీవితాంతం అవసరం లేదు,కొన్ని రోజులు చాలు.కనీసం కొత్త ప్రదేశాన్ని,మనుషుల్ని చూస్తే మనలో కాస్త అలజడి తగ్గుతుంది.అదీ భాష తెలియని ప్రాంతానికి వెళ్తే ఇంకా happy,రోడ్ల మీద తిరుగుతుంటే ఎవడు మాట్లాడేది అర్ధంకాక

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Where Is the Friend’s Home ?

Where Is the Friend’s Home Khane-ye Doust Kodjast ( Iranian title, 1987)   “పొరపాటున ఒక ఫ్రెండ్ workbook తన bag లో పెట్టుకుని ఇంటికి వచ్చేస్తాడు అహ్మద్, ఫ్రెండ్ పేరు మహమ్మద్ రెజా.  ఆ రోజు పొద్దునే స్కూల్లో టీచర్ వార్నింగ్ ఇస్తాడు రెజా కి, రెగ్యులర్ గా హోమ్ వర్క్ చేయటం లేదని రేపు కూడా చేయకుండా వస్తే స్కూల్లోంచి తీసేస్తాము అని. అది గుర్తొచ్చి అహ్మద్ కి టెన్షన్ […]

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Frank Capra’s gift to the World – It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s A Wonderful Life – Frank Capra’s gift to the world. Frank Capra’s 1946 Masterpiece, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, has rightly gone down in film history as one of the greatest feel good movies of all time. From its humble beginnings as a short story, ‘The Greatest Gift’, which its author Philip Van Doren Stern […]

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"The Quiet Man" Is a Love Story Set in the Emerald Isle of Ireland

  The Quiet Man No one ever said that film-making was easy, only that it could be very good and sometimes enduring, as in “The Quiet Man”, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara with legendary Director John Ford. Like a lot of great films, this is a story of the conflict and conquest in the […]

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It Comes At Night, 2017 ( Ao cair da Noite) Film

 It Comes At Night, 2017 ( Ao cair da Noite) Criticism – Fear in the Old Fashioned. There are a lot of people who argue that part of the art of making a good horror movie is getting lost over time. With the advancement of cinematic technology, more and more we can show on the […]

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Three Colors: Trilogy Films

Three Colors Trilogy by KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI Three Colors This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but […]

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The Femme Fatale Image in Cinema

Some early scientists relegated women to a category somewhere above monkeys, yet below men, and the poet Milton observed that women are “a fair defect of nature” However these were the pseudoscientific notions about female variable and vulnerability, and were used to justify sexism and discrimination in society. Perceptive out of such frustrations rose the […]

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