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By Maria Esteves – August 26, 2017
The amazing dance single 'Hard Times' by Randy Jones (RJ) released by Young Pals Music with remix compilations by world renowned DJs Drew G, Eric Kupper, Mark Saunders, and Tim Cox U.K.is available on Amazon, Apple and Young Pal Music store. The single "Hard Times" is unveiled in Ayhan Sahin's pop album "POP."
While this year, the Village People recording group celebrates their 40th Anniversary, and this Sunday is the 34...
Toilet—Ek Prem Katha, Review by Siraj Syed: Loo and behold!
There is no point getting revolted by the title. Any fear that the film might have ‘dirty’ scenes can be laid to rest by the realisation that we have a robust Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) that sanitises every film before release. And almost every Indian knows that the current Prime Minister launched a campaign two-and-a-half years ago, to ensure that millions of villages and small towns in rural India ...
TranScreen: Trans*gender Film Festival Amsterdam will take place from September 13 to September 17. We are proud to announce that our main venue will be Kriterion this year. We will keep you posted about other venues and the programme soon. www.transcreen.org
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by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
After eons of human existence, or a short hop since the Sexual Revolution of the 1960’s, we still haven’t learned how to do two things well: Die or Divorce. Even with Gwyneth Paltrow’s co-opted “Conscious Uncoupling,” the recent so-called shock split of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, that followed Ben & Jen, and Brangelina. Life, art, and pop culture peel back one common truth: we don’t know what to d...
Over 35 film screenings plus 3 masterclasses, The Live Script Readings and the BUFF Awards ceremony will all be hosted at the BT Tower from 6-12 September.
Urban independent cinema arrives at the BT Tower this September as festival director Addie Akinrinade announced this year’s selections and schedule for 2017, sponsored by BT.
Akinrinade confirmed that the London premiere of Free In Deed will open this year’s film festival at the BT Tower on Wednesday the 6th of September...
By Maria Esteves – July 21, 2017
THE PULITZER AT 100, is a powerful must see documentary for the 21st Century journalists, based on the history of American journalism and the life of legendary Hungarian Jewish immigrant Joseph Pulitzer (1847 – 1911) founder of urban Yellow Journalism, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York, and the amazing Pulitzer Prizes honoring excellence in American Journalism and the Arts. It captures investigative journalism with ...
Metamora Films Festival is proud to award Touch of an Angel (Directed by Marek Pawlowski) best documentary film for the spring, 2017 season. Congratulations!
Director’s Comments: The film presents completely unknown facts about the existence of a failed Bureau of Emigration of Jews to Palestine in Auschwitz town, run by Schoenker’s father. “Touch of an Angel”, took five years to p
Phullu, Review by Siraj Syed: Misleading title, taboo subject, tenacious treatment
This is a good example of a film named after its lead character, with no regard for audiences’ perception of what it might stand for, and no clue about the storyline. The word is not a corruption of phool (flower), though it could well be an attempt to synthesise phool with ullu (owl; figuratively, a fool). We can go with the assumption that they intended to call him the flower fool, Phullu.
Phullu is ab...
Barrage, Review by Siraj Syed: Exquisite ennui
Some exquisite nature photography cannot save this Luxembourg-Belgium-France co-production from recurring ennui. A wafer thin story about three generations of women, Barrage sticks to its theme, though it moves at snail’s pace. Previewed at a Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) screening for members of its film club, the film is in French language and has English sub-titles. Barrage in French means dam/block/barricade, not quite the Engli...
Animation Nights New York March Shorts Recap Video
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#NYCIndieFF Celebrates Pride is a screening event that highlights some of the best storytelling by LGBTQ+ filmmakers and highlights complex characters in the community. Round out Pride Month with great indie films and your first drink included in the admission!
Lineup includes:
A Song for Your Mixtape
Guao
The Owls
Chosen Family
& more to be announced!
Friday, June 30 at 8PM
@ Producers Club
358 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Price: $15.00, Buy your ti...
With our latest edition coming to a close, we are excited to announce this has been our greatest year yet! The NYC Independent Film Festival had 4,200 attendees over a week of screenings, events, panels, and parties.
The 9th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival will be held May 7 - 13, 2018. The NYC Indie Film Festival provides a showcase for the best in independent cinema, including short films, feature films, music videos, and animated works. With panels, parties and a week-long gatherin...
Memo to all journalists, film critics, bloggers and other accredited attendees of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
London, 21/05/2017
For immediate release:
The British Urban Film Festival invites you to attend the BUFF 2017 Cannes Press Conference on Friday 26 May, 10.00am - 12noon, at the Hotel Amarante Cannes (Matisse Room).
The address is 78, Boulevard Carnot, 06400 Cannes, France.
Speaking at the press conference will be BUFF CEO and founder Emmanuel Anyi...
Hindi Medium, Review by Siraj Syed: Admission only to the affluent and fluent
If you want to get your child admitted in any one of the top five schools in New Delhi, you have to be affluent, fluent (in English) and live a life-style typified by Western influences. This is the premise of Hindi Medium, releasing this week in Mumbai cinemas.
What happens if you have an intelligent daughter, are a couple that speaks Hindi, and have lots of money, not Westernised, and live in the crowded Chandni ...
The Sense of an Ending, Review by Siraj Syed: Sensible transition from novel to film
Many a times, tragic-romantic novels that get made into films tend to be laboured and over ‘textualised’. Not so the The Sense of an Ending. Indian director Ritesh Batra keeps this British film largely simple and lets his actors carry it forward, which works well. A simple story with a tragic and profound undercurrent of regret, the film does not have too much to offer, but gets its basics right. ...
There is another White House, an iconic apartment-house opened in 1936,and now a listed building, in bustling Marylebone, close to Regent's Park in the centre of London, and opposite the site of the Diorama, a fore-runner of cinema, which employed candle-light on huge paintings, with audiences literally moved around a flexible,arena-like space.Adjacent in Albany Street was another celebrated Victorian attraction, the Colosseum, constructed in the 1820s to house &qu...
Almost in defiance of the impending gloom of Brexit, London continues to host a plethora of European film events, national film-weeks and a variety of cultural cinematic gatherings, screenings and mini-festivals, sometimes on Embassy premises or in other non-cinema venues. Currently, on one of the capital's smartest streets in merry Marylebone, and more or less opposite the ever-busy entrance to one of London's film-starriest hostelries, the Chiltern Firehouse, is a most unusua...
Movie memories, by Siraj Syed—Bowling for Columbine (2002): Gun lobbies and gun hobbies
America has the highest rate of gun-related deaths and some critics of the gun culture refer to the gun lobby as gun nuts. Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11) pegs this docu-feature as an investigative, analytical account of the Columbine school massacre and derives its title from the story that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold—the two students responsible for the Columbine High School massacre—...
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Mantostaan, Review by Siraj Syed: Quadruple fiction, laboured narration
Mantostaan is a parallel compilation of four short stories by outstanding writer, late Saadat Hassan Manto. Manto was a short story writer who wrote in the Urdu language, in addition to being a film and radio scriptwriter, and a journalist. For a brief period in the late forties, he worked in the script department of the legendary studio, Bombay Talkies. Born in undivided India, he returned to what was now Pakistan, and d...
Interest in wine and wine making has always fascinated humanity since olden times. However, this fascination has taken a completely new turn in contemporary times especially in an international market governed by numerous socio-economic concerns. This is one reason why there is always room for news as well as ‘works of art’ about anything related to wine. One can quote China's acquisition of 100 Bordeaux chateaux as a recent example. It can be stated that Asia’s dominance...
Movie memories, by Siraj Syed—Fahrenheit 9/11(2004): Burning topics
Fahrenheit 9/11 was released on DVD and VHS videotape on October 5, 2004, which is when I must have acquired my copy. Within a few days, the film broke records for the highest-selling documentary ever. About two million copies were sold/rented on the first day.
A companion book too was released, The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader, containing the complete screenplay, maker Michael Moore's sources, audience e-mails ...
Maatr (The Mother) uncensored, Review by Siraj Syed: She will kill at will
Lead actress Raveena Tandon told the media that, in Maatr, “We have just shown 10 percent of what a woman has to deal with when such a thing happens with her.” ‘Such a thing’ that she was referring to is gang rape. Sure enough, the film landed in trouble before the Central Board of Film Certification (CFBC), the Indian body that has to approve every film before it is released. I have had privile...
Félicité, Review by Siraj Syed: Cinema réalité
Challenging forms and formats, genres and categories, Félicité agitates your mind by showing too much of some things and too little of other elements. It begins as an indictment of the colonial legacy in Congo but ends up becoming a slave to its repetitive shot-taking and sombre imagery. Too much is promised and just about much is delivered. Nevertheless, Félicité is going to be talked about...
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