Thom Yorke has shared the original score he composed for Daniele Luchetti’s new film Confidenza.
Released via Xl recordings, the Radiohead and The Smile frontman offered previews of his Confidenza score this week with “Knife’s Edge” and “Prize Giving.” Confidenza, which was adapted from Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name and released in Italian cinemas this week, is Yorke’s second film score after crafting the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake in 2018.
Yorke’s Confidenza score was produced by previous collaborator Sam Petts-Davies. Consisting of 12 tracks, the album was recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble that included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. Stream the Confidenza soundtrack below.
Meanwhile, Yorke has been gearing up for the second leg of a European tour with The Smile in support of the supergroup’s new album, Wall of Eyes.
Released via Xl recordings, the Radiohead and The Smile frontman offered previews of his Confidenza score this week with “Knife’s Edge” and “Prize Giving.” Confidenza, which was adapted from Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name and released in Italian cinemas this week, is Yorke’s second film score after crafting the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake in 2018.
Yorke’s Confidenza score was produced by previous collaborator Sam Petts-Davies. Consisting of 12 tracks, the album was recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble that included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. Stream the Confidenza soundtrack below.
Meanwhile, Yorke has been gearing up for the second leg of a European tour with The Smile in support of the supergroup’s new album, Wall of Eyes.
- 4/26/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Film News
Thom Yorke has shared the original score he composed for Daniele Luchetti’s new film Confidenza.
Released via Xl recordings, the Radiohead and The Smile frontman offered previews of his Confidenza score this week with “Knife’s Edge” and “Prize Giving.” Confidenza, which was adapted from Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name and released in Italian cinemas this week, is Yorke’s second film score after crafting the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake in 2018.
Yorke’s Confidenza score was produced by previous collaborator Sam Petts-Davies. Consisting of 12 tracks, the album was recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble that included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. Stream the Confidenza soundtrack below.
Meanwhile, Yorke has been gearing up for the second leg of a European tour with The Smile in support of the supergroup’s new album, Wall of Eyes.
Released via Xl recordings, the Radiohead and The Smile frontman offered previews of his Confidenza score this week with “Knife’s Edge” and “Prize Giving.” Confidenza, which was adapted from Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name and released in Italian cinemas this week, is Yorke’s second film score after crafting the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake in 2018.
Yorke’s Confidenza score was produced by previous collaborator Sam Petts-Davies. Consisting of 12 tracks, the album was recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble that included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. Stream the Confidenza soundtrack below.
Meanwhile, Yorke has been gearing up for the second leg of a European tour with The Smile in support of the supergroup’s new album, Wall of Eyes.
- 4/26/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
“If I were you, I’d run away/Get out while you still can,” Thom Yorke sings on his new song “Knife Edge.” “‘Cause this to me is life or death/And all I think about.” The pensive song, which ambles along slowly with piano and sparse strings, comes off the soundtrack to Confidenza, a new film by director Daniele Luchetti (My Brilliant Friend).
The music video for the tune shows footage from the movie, which is based on author Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same title about a doomed couple.
The music video for the tune shows footage from the movie, which is based on author Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same title about a doomed couple.
- 4/22/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead and The Smile, has composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s new film Confidenza.
Confidenza marks Yorke’s second film score, following his contributions to Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria. As a preview of his latest effort, Yorke has shared the visual for “Knife Edge” and its B-side, “Prize Giving.” Check out both songs below.
Spanning a total of 12 tracks, Yorke’s score for Confidenza will recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. It will be released digitally this Friday, April 26th via Xl Recordings, with a physical release following on July 12th.
Confidenza is an adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s 2019 novel of the same name. Starring Elio Germano, Vittoria Puccini, and Isabella Ferrari, the Italian drama centers around an affair between a teacher named Pietro and his former student Teresa.
Confidenza marks Yorke’s second film score, following his contributions to Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria. As a preview of his latest effort, Yorke has shared the visual for “Knife Edge” and its B-side, “Prize Giving.” Check out both songs below.
Spanning a total of 12 tracks, Yorke’s score for Confidenza will recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. It will be released digitally this Friday, April 26th via Xl Recordings, with a physical release following on July 12th.
Confidenza is an adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s 2019 novel of the same name. Starring Elio Germano, Vittoria Puccini, and Isabella Ferrari, the Italian drama centers around an affair between a teacher named Pietro and his former student Teresa.
- 4/22/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Film News
Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead and The Smile, has composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s new film Confidenza.
Confidenza marks Yorke’s second film score, following his contributions to Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria. As a preview of his latest effort, Yorke has shared the visual for “Knife Edge” and its B-side, “Prize Giving.” Check out both songs below.
Spanning a total of 12 tracks, Yorke’s score for Confidenza will recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. It will be released digitally this Friday, April 26th via Xl Recordings, with a physical release following on July 12th.
Confidenza is an adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s 2019 novel of the same name. Starring Elio Germano, Vittoria Puccini, and Isabella Ferrari, the Italian drama centers around an affair between a teacher named Pietro and his former student Teresa.
Confidenza marks Yorke’s second film score, following his contributions to Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria. As a preview of his latest effort, Yorke has shared the visual for “Knife Edge” and its B-side, “Prize Giving.” Check out both songs below.
Spanning a total of 12 tracks, Yorke’s score for Confidenza will recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and Yorke’s bandmate in The Smile, Tom Skinner. It will be released digitally this Friday, April 26th via Xl Recordings, with a physical release following on July 12th.
Confidenza is an adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s 2019 novel of the same name. Starring Elio Germano, Vittoria Puccini, and Isabella Ferrari, the Italian drama centers around an affair between a teacher named Pietro and his former student Teresa.
- 4/22/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Taking a stroll down the memory lane, megastar Amitabh Bachchan recalled his meeting with India’s cultural icon Satyajit Ray, sharing how the latter’s room was filled with books and posters.
Satyajit Ray was considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He was the director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is celebrated for works including ‘The Apu Trilogy’, ‘The Music Room’, ‘The Big City’, ‘Charulata’ and the ‘Goopy–Bagha’ trilogy.
Host of the quiz-based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ season 15, Amitabh Bachchan welcomed Varun Kesarwani from Ayodhya, Up, the rollover contestant in the episode 13th of the ‘Rishtey Special’ week.
For the Rs 3,20,000 question, Varun was asked: “Which film director designed the logo of the Sahitya Akademi?” The options given were- Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Satyajit Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and Bhalji Pendharkar. Varun took the double dip lifeline- and gave the...
Satyajit Ray was considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He was the director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. He is celebrated for works including ‘The Apu Trilogy’, ‘The Music Room’, ‘The Big City’, ‘Charulata’ and the ‘Goopy–Bagha’ trilogy.
Host of the quiz-based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ season 15, Amitabh Bachchan welcomed Varun Kesarwani from Ayodhya, Up, the rollover contestant in the episode 13th of the ‘Rishtey Special’ week.
For the Rs 3,20,000 question, Varun was asked: “Which film director designed the logo of the Sahitya Akademi?” The options given were- Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Satyajit Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and Bhalji Pendharkar. Varun took the double dip lifeline- and gave the...
- 8/31/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Like its predecessor, 2018's "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," the 2023 follow-up "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" will cull comic book history for every possible iteration of the eponymous superhero, and force them to interact. In "Into," directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman had the Miles Morales Spider-Man (Shameik Moore) meeting and forming an unlikely bond with a middle-aged Peter Parker Spider-Man (Jake Johnson) when the latter passed into Miles' dimension. The two also teamed up with Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), and an anime duo called Peni and Sp//dr (Kimiko Glenn). In a post-credits cookie, Miguel O'Hara, a.k.a. Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac), also appeared. Spider-Man 2099 will appear again.
Each of these characters has a precedent in "Spider-Man" comics. As will be proven in "Across" -- directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson -- those seven Spider-Beings are only a scratch on the surface.
Each of these characters has a precedent in "Spider-Man" comics. As will be proven in "Across" -- directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson -- those seven Spider-Beings are only a scratch on the surface.
- 1/25/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
by Fahmidul Haq
Tareque Masud’s “Matir Moina” (2002) was the first film from Bangladesh that was screened in Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight section and won the Fipresci award jointly with Elia Suleiman’s “Divine Intervention”. But it is Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s second feature “Rehana Maryam Noor”, the first film from the South Asian cinephile nation to be officially selected at Cannes, competing in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ category. The director of the film also bagged the Jury Grand Prize from Asia-Pacific Screen Award where the lead actress Azmeri Haque Badhon earned the award of the Best Performance by an Actress. Badhon was also included in the short list of ‘Variety’s International Breakout Stars of 2021’. Bangladeshi actors Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim and Badhon have expanded their stardom in 2021 by acting in web series released in Indian OTTs. Jaya Ahsan continued her already established acting career both in Dhaka and Kolkata-based Indian industry.
Tareque Masud’s “Matir Moina” (2002) was the first film from Bangladesh that was screened in Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight section and won the Fipresci award jointly with Elia Suleiman’s “Divine Intervention”. But it is Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s second feature “Rehana Maryam Noor”, the first film from the South Asian cinephile nation to be officially selected at Cannes, competing in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ category. The director of the film also bagged the Jury Grand Prize from Asia-Pacific Screen Award where the lead actress Azmeri Haque Badhon earned the award of the Best Performance by an Actress. Badhon was also included in the short list of ‘Variety’s International Breakout Stars of 2021’. Bangladeshi actors Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim and Badhon have expanded their stardom in 2021 by acting in web series released in Indian OTTs. Jaya Ahsan continued her already established acting career both in Dhaka and Kolkata-based Indian industry.
- 1/31/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is honoring the centenary of cinema giant Satyajit Ray with a major two-part retrospective.
May 2, 2021 was the birth centenary of Ray, the Indian master who won an honorary Oscar in 1992, shortly before his death, and remains the country’s best known filmmaker internationally.
The first part of the retrospective, which is currently on and will continue till Dec. 29, focuses on the early part of Ray’s career from 1955 – 1969. After a career as a graphic designer, Ray became a director in his early thirties with the ground breaking “Pather Panchali” (1955), which together with “Aparajito” and “Apur Sansar”, forms the phenomenal Apu Trilogy that follows the titular protagonist from childhood to adulthood.
The retrospective includes the Academy Film Archive’s landmark restoration of the Apu Trilogy from camera negatives nearly lost in a fire.
The December screenings at the Museum focus on Ray’s prolific and prodigious 1960s output,...
May 2, 2021 was the birth centenary of Ray, the Indian master who won an honorary Oscar in 1992, shortly before his death, and remains the country’s best known filmmaker internationally.
The first part of the retrospective, which is currently on and will continue till Dec. 29, focuses on the early part of Ray’s career from 1955 – 1969. After a career as a graphic designer, Ray became a director in his early thirties with the ground breaking “Pather Panchali” (1955), which together with “Aparajito” and “Apur Sansar”, forms the phenomenal Apu Trilogy that follows the titular protagonist from childhood to adulthood.
The retrospective includes the Academy Film Archive’s landmark restoration of the Apu Trilogy from camera negatives nearly lost in a fire.
The December screenings at the Museum focus on Ray’s prolific and prodigious 1960s output,...
- 12/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
India is celebrating the birth centenary of one of her greatest sons, Satyajit Ray, in a variety of ways.
Sunday, marks the centenary of Ray, the Indian master who won an honorary Oscar in 1992, shortly before his death, and remains the country’s best known filmmaker internationally.
Ray debuted with “Pather Panchali” (1955) the first part of the magisterial Apu Trilogy, which won best human document at Cannes. The Trilogy includes “Aparajito” (1956) and “Apur Sansar” (1959). Berlin was a particularly happy venue for him and he won top awards at the festival numerous times, for “Pather Panchali,” “Aparajito,” “Mahanagar” (1963), “Charulata” (1964), “Nayak” (1966) and “Ashani Sanket” (1973).
At Venice he won for “Aparajito” and “Seemabaddha” (1971), culminating in a career Golden Lion in 1982. He also won a British Institute Fellowship in 1983 to go with the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy for “Apur Sansar.” In 1987, the government of France made Ray a Commander of the Legion of Honor.
Sunday, marks the centenary of Ray, the Indian master who won an honorary Oscar in 1992, shortly before his death, and remains the country’s best known filmmaker internationally.
Ray debuted with “Pather Panchali” (1955) the first part of the magisterial Apu Trilogy, which won best human document at Cannes. The Trilogy includes “Aparajito” (1956) and “Apur Sansar” (1959). Berlin was a particularly happy venue for him and he won top awards at the festival numerous times, for “Pather Panchali,” “Aparajito,” “Mahanagar” (1963), “Charulata” (1964), “Nayak” (1966) and “Ashani Sanket” (1973).
At Venice he won for “Aparajito” and “Seemabaddha” (1971), culminating in a career Golden Lion in 1982. He also won a British Institute Fellowship in 1983 to go with the London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy for “Apur Sansar.” In 1987, the government of France made Ray a Commander of the Legion of Honor.
- 5/2/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Gurvinder Singh's Alms for a Blind Horse (2011) is now showing in the series A Journey into Indian Cinema.The story goes that the demon Svarbhanu stood in a line of Hindu gods and tricked Mohini, the female manifestation of Lord Vishnu, to feed him the elixir of life. The sun and the moon gods noticed his deviance and informed Vishnu, who promptly cut off Svarbhanu’s head with a spinning disc. But by then, it was too late. Svarbhanu had already become immortal and his dismembered head and the rest of his body became separate living entities: Rahu and Ketu. Mythology says that every solar and lunar eclipse, Rahu comes riding his blind horses, seeking revenge against the sun and the moon. The Hindu caste system, in its classic act of othering, has always deemed the so-called untouchables...
- 5/31/2020
- MUBI
It is not a secret that Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas is a result of love for Asian countries, Asian culture, Asian films, and of romantic love. “This festival that was created by a couple – my wife and I celebrates its silver wedding anniversary, its 25 years of marriage. So the theme of couples is imperative.” explained Jean-Marc Thérouanne, founder and managing director of the festival to the Afp (Agence France Press).
Since its first edition in 1995, Viff of Asian Cinemas has welcomed more than half a million audience members, with 32.000 coming to the festival screenings in 2018 and “Women Speak” as its thematic setting.
“We have started in a phone booth, with 12 films and 1500 visitors. Now, we have become a festival with international recognition. In October 2018, we have had the honour to receive the Korean Cinema Awards, an accolade previously presented to the figures of the cinema industry such...
Since its first edition in 1995, Viff of Asian Cinemas has welcomed more than half a million audience members, with 32.000 coming to the festival screenings in 2018 and “Women Speak” as its thematic setting.
“We have started in a phone booth, with 12 films and 1500 visitors. Now, we have become a festival with international recognition. In October 2018, we have had the honour to receive the Korean Cinema Awards, an accolade previously presented to the figures of the cinema industry such...
- 2/7/2019
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
I’m a sucker for crime fiction, whether it’s served up by Raymond Chandler or by Harlan Coben. As a kid, my passion for adventure stories started it all. But like a Chevy Impala on a rain-soaked highway, my interest slid all over the road. I’d devour mysteries, detective novels, pulps and crime thrillers.
In the world of comics, lately we’ve been treated to outstanding fantastic crime thrillers. Ed Brubaker leads the way, of course, with his various crime noir and spy series. Greg Rucka’s stuff is always fun and I hope Oni publishes more Stumptown soon. And other publishers, like Dynamite, Idw, and Boom! Studios have been providing strong contributions as well.
In the traditional book world, Hard Case Crime has been on the forefront of hardboiled crime fiction. Charles Ardai is the man behind it all, and he combines his love for this genre...
In the world of comics, lately we’ve been treated to outstanding fantastic crime thrillers. Ed Brubaker leads the way, of course, with his various crime noir and spy series. Greg Rucka’s stuff is always fun and I hope Oni publishes more Stumptown soon. And other publishers, like Dynamite, Idw, and Boom! Studios have been providing strong contributions as well.
In the traditional book world, Hard Case Crime has been on the forefront of hardboiled crime fiction. Charles Ardai is the man behind it all, and he combines his love for this genre...
- 6/26/2017
- by Ed Catto
- Comicmix.com
The eyes aren’t just the windows to the soul; they’re the bearer of truth, and the messengers of feelings. It’s no wonder that any director looking for a thoughtful, scrupulous shot focuses there — whether it’s Quentin Tarantino portraying the anger and frustration The Bride (Uma Thurman) feels when she’s being buried alive by Budd (Michael Madsen) in “Kill Bill Vol. 2;” or the subject of a Pixies song, Luis Buñuel’s surrealist masterpiece “Un Chien Andalou.” Read More: The Essentials: Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Apu Trilogy’ Indian director Satyajit Ray used captivating glances to exude emotion in his epic coming-of-age “Apu Trilogy,” as well as in 1963’s “The Big City,” another coming-of-age film of sorts, but this time focusing on a married couple each with their own occupational difficulties. And this video essay from Fandor explores his technique. The entire film is told through the way...
- 4/1/2016
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
The big city isn't for everybunny, but righteous rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnfer Goodwin) is absolutely certain that's where she needs to be - in Zootopia. It's a magical place where animals of every sort come together to make the most of themselves and their world. At least, that's what the travel brochures will tell you. Zootopia - like real life - is a little more complicated, which is partially why it makes such a great film. A little realism never hurt anybody, particularly when it's delivered with such a smart script and stellar voice performances. Goodwin is charming and chipper as Judy,...
- 3/4/2016
- by Alynda Wheat, @AlyndaWheat
- PEOPLE.com
The big city isn't for everybunny, but righteous rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnfer Goodwin) is absolutely certain that's where she needs to be - in Zootopia. It's a magical place where animals of every sort come together to make the most of themselves and their world. At least, that's what the travel brochures will tell you. Zootopia - like real life - is a little more complicated, which is partially why it makes such a great film. A little realism never hurt anybody, particularly when it's delivered with such a smart script and stellar voice performances. Goodwin is charming and chipper as Judy,...
- 3/4/2016
- by Alynda Wheat, @AlyndaWheat
- PEOPLE.com
Two Days, One Night
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Belgium/France/Italy, 2014
Are there any filmmakers working today with a better recent track record than Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne? From their 1996 feature La Promesse, to Two Days, One Night (2014), available now on a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray, the writing/directing duo have made seven classics of contemporary world cinema in a row, all of which were also among the best of their respective year of release. There have been six films up for the Palme d’Or, resulting in two wins (as well as five other Cannes awards), five César nominations, a host of critical accolades, and dozens of other honors spanning the globe (though curiously, no Oscar love for the brothers). Two Days, One Night, itself the winner of 40 international awards, is just the latest to follow this exceptional trend. It’s a film utterly unique in so many ways,...
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Belgium/France/Italy, 2014
Are there any filmmakers working today with a better recent track record than Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne? From their 1996 feature La Promesse, to Two Days, One Night (2014), available now on a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray, the writing/directing duo have made seven classics of contemporary world cinema in a row, all of which were also among the best of their respective year of release. There have been six films up for the Palme d’Or, resulting in two wins (as well as five other Cannes awards), five César nominations, a host of critical accolades, and dozens of other honors spanning the globe (though curiously, no Oscar love for the brothers). Two Days, One Night, itself the winner of 40 international awards, is just the latest to follow this exceptional trend. It’s a film utterly unique in so many ways,...
- 9/1/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Though clever and cheeky like most Aardman Animations' productions, Shaun the Sheep Movie is a decidedly more slight, if ever quaint, effort for the company. A ruminant character spawned from the Wallace & Gromit short film A Close Shave and later the titular star of the television series "Shaun the Sheep," Mark Burton and Richard Starzak's big-screen debut for the wool-covered once-sidekick deliberately focuses as mightily as it can on keeping itself as snappy and pun-enthused as possible -- with barely a moment wasted with its comedy during the 85 minute running time. Every second crackles with energy and enthusiasm, keeping its playful spirits up high and bewitchingly captures the silly spunk the stop-motion purists provide best in gracious handfuls. But as passionate and loving as the production often becomes, the heart never quite pops out as vitally as it would so plentifully during Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
- 8/5/2015
- by Will Ashton
- Rope of Silicon
Aardman Studios return to the big screen in cracking form with another rip-roaring roller coaster of action, smart humour and lovable characters. Shaun The Sheep Movie promises to delight fans of all ages, and long-time aficionados of the studio's signature claymation style can rest assured they have not lost their magic touch.Originally introduced in Nick Park's third Wallace And Gromit short, A Close Shave, Shaun the sheep subsequently scored his own television series, which ran for 130 seven-minute episodes. In his feature film debut, Shaun and the rest of his flock must team up with Bitzer the sheepdog to rescue The Farmer from The Big City, when a harmless prank goes disastrously wrong.When The Farmer wakes up in hospital, unaware that a runaway caravan has swept...
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- 8/5/2015
- Screen Anarchy
In one of my favorite recent video essays, “Rohmer’s Guessing Games,” Kevin B. Lee explores the Pov shots and blocking in A Summer’s Tale as a means of muddling character motivations. The above inquiry, from Joel Bocko, into eye contact throughout Satyajit Ray’s The Big City as a mode of character development, makes for a rather nice companion piece, and also a nice reminder of how storytelling is consistent in the finer details.
- 7/8/2015
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In one of my favorite recent video essays, “Rohmer’s Guessing Games,” Kevin B. Lee explores the Pov shots and blocking in A Summer’s Tale as a means of muddling character motivations. The above inquiry, from Joel Bocko, into eye contact throughout Satyajit Ray’s The Big City as a mode of character development, makes for a rather nice companion piece, and also a nice reminder of how storytelling is consistent in the finer details.
- 7/8/2015
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It’s all in the eyes, and this case they belong to Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a housewife-turned-saleswoman in Satyajit Ray‘s classic film The Big City. Her personal growth is charted through her gazes, whether they are exchanged with husband, customers, boss—or even her own reflection. Throughout The Big City, Ray uses eye contact to establishes familiarity, intimacy and shifting power dynamics; the story of the film is told through the way the characters look at one another.>> - Joel Bocko...
- 7/6/2015
- Keyframe
It’s all in the eyes, and this case they belong to Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a housewife-turned-saleswoman in Satyajit Ray‘s classic film The Big City. Her personal growth is charted through her gazes, whether they are exchanged with husband, customers, boss—or even her own reflection. Throughout The Big City, Ray uses eye contact to establishes familiarity, intimacy and shifting power dynamics; the story of the film is told through the way the characters look at one another.>> - Joel Bocko...
- 7/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Criterion repackages Jean Renoir’s 1951 classic The River for Blu-ray, one of the master filmmaker’s several titles in the collection (fans may recall that Renoir’s Grand Illusion was the very first Criterion title). A title significant in many respects, being the first Technicolor film in India and Renoir’s first color feature, it’s simplistic beauty has gone on to influence future generations of filmmakers, including its prominently vocal champion Martin Scorsese. It also served as a launching pad for Satyajit Ray, who worked as an assistant on the film, and who would go on to create his own stunning debut four years later with the first chapter of his Apu trilogy, Pather Panchali (1955).
We experience the childhood of Harriet (Patricia Walters) in retrospect, her off-screen adult voice recounting one particular stretch of time while growing up in India with her mother (Nora Swinburne) and father (Esmond Knight...
We experience the childhood of Harriet (Patricia Walters) in retrospect, her off-screen adult voice recounting one particular stretch of time while growing up in India with her mother (Nora Swinburne) and father (Esmond Knight...
- 4/21/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Netflix
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. may have been their first foray into television, but the small screen outing from Mavel Studios everyone’s really been looking forward to is Daredevil.
The first of four shows produced in partnership with Netflix (Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist will arrive over the next couple of years), the series marks the first live-action take on the character since the Ben Affleck-starring atrocity and, if it’s a success, could herald in a whole new way to bring superheroes to life.
The Man Without Fear has been a Marvel staple ever since his introduction in 1964, with blind Matt Murdock keeping Hell’s Kitchen safe with his enhanced perception. Compared to the more cosmically-minded Avengers, Daredevil (like the other Netflix characters, who will eventually team-up as The Defenders) is a more low-level crime-fighter, promising some grittier adventures.
The thirteen episodes of Season 1 will hit Netflix on 10th April,...
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. may have been their first foray into television, but the small screen outing from Mavel Studios everyone’s really been looking forward to is Daredevil.
The first of four shows produced in partnership with Netflix (Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist will arrive over the next couple of years), the series marks the first live-action take on the character since the Ben Affleck-starring atrocity and, if it’s a success, could herald in a whole new way to bring superheroes to life.
The Man Without Fear has been a Marvel staple ever since his introduction in 1964, with blind Matt Murdock keeping Hell’s Kitchen safe with his enhanced perception. Compared to the more cosmically-minded Avengers, Daredevil (like the other Netflix characters, who will eventually team-up as The Defenders) is a more low-level crime-fighter, promising some grittier adventures.
The thirteen episodes of Season 1 will hit Netflix on 10th April,...
- 2/4/2015
- by Alex Leadbeater
- Obsessed with Film
Aardman Studios return to the big screen in cracking form with another rip-roaring roller coaster of action, smart humour and lovable characters. Shaun The Sheep Movie promises to delight fans of all ages, and long-time aficionados of the studio's signature claymation style can rest assured they have not lost their magic touch.Originally introduced in Nick Park's third Wallace And Gromit short, A Close Shave, Shaun the sheep subsequently scored his own television series, which ran for 130 seven-minute episodes. In his feature film debut, Shaun and the rest of his flock must team up with Bitzer the sheepdog to rescue The Farmer from The Big City, when a harmless prank goes disastrously wrong.When The Farmer wakes up in hospital, unaware that a runaway caravan has swept...
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- 1/24/2015
- Screen Anarchy
We're in full-blown recovery mode from another amazing year of Fantastic Fest, but there is truly no rest for the wicked around here. Not only do we have a handful of intriguing new releases, but plenty of specialty screenings will have you racing back into the theater, no matter how many films you saw last week.
Tonight, the Austin Film Society is hosting a selection of eight short films from this year's Sundance Film Festival. With a mix of fiction, documentary and awardwinning short films, this 94-minute program includes the acclaimed debut from actress Rose McGowan entitled Dawn. You can catch it this eveing at the Marchesa. Head back there on Sunday afternoon as programmer Lars Nilsen schools you about Lee Tso Nam's The Hot, The Cool & The Vicious and screens it in a 35mm print. Essential Cinema dives into the "Films Of Satyajit Ray" for October and it...
Tonight, the Austin Film Society is hosting a selection of eight short films from this year's Sundance Film Festival. With a mix of fiction, documentary and awardwinning short films, this 94-minute program includes the acclaimed debut from actress Rose McGowan entitled Dawn. You can catch it this eveing at the Marchesa. Head back there on Sunday afternoon as programmer Lars Nilsen schools you about Lee Tso Nam's The Hot, The Cool & The Vicious and screens it in a 35mm print. Essential Cinema dives into the "Films Of Satyajit Ray" for October and it...
- 9/26/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Leos Carax’s debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984), now beautifully restored and showing at the Film Forum from August 8th (as part of a larger Carax retrospective), is a manual on egocentricity. Posturing as a story of heartbreak, love and finally tragedy, Boy Meets Girl is in fact a soapbox for young Alex (Denis Lavant) to explain his extended ontology and the distended sense of its worth. Alex’s disinterest in cooperating with the world is matched only by his insistence to control it. What we are left with is transcendent self-involvement through time, space and person: otherwise known as being in your twenties. Shot in black and white and set in the Paris of anytime, Carax with one hand tips his cap to love story nostalgia and with the other fondles the petty egoism of love.
As the title suggests, boy does indeed meet girl. Alex is our boy,...
As the title suggests, boy does indeed meet girl. Alex is our boy,...
- 8/9/2014
- by Cuyler Ballenger
- MUBI
“The big city? Cops? Shootings? Car chases? That kind of thing?” “Well, no. No shooting stuff. It’s more like songs and dances.” – Exchange between Dabney Coleman and Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) “It’s like this. We live in claustrophobia, the land of steel and concrete. Trapped by dark waters. There is no escape. Nor do we want it. We’ve come to thrive on it and each other. You can’t get the adrenaline pumpin’ without the terror, good people. I love this town.” – Radio DJ, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) “When people see New York in the movies, they want to come here.” – Mayor Ed Koch, The New York Times (1985) Two movies released in the 1980s used the phrase “Take(s) Manhattan” in their title. The first was the latest G-rated feature starring lovable puppet characters from a popular children’s variety show. The...
- 7/18/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Madhabi Mukherjee in Mahanagar
A digitally restored version of Satyajit Ray’s Bengali classic Mahanagar (The Big City) will be released on April 18, in select theatres in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Pune, under the PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The film, which was originally released in September 1963, will be re-released with English subtitles.
Mahanagar has been digitally restored by The Rdb Organization headed by Kamal Bansal. The British Film Institute (BFI), had held screenings of the restored version in the United Kingdom last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the film.
Made in 1963, the timeless classic based on Narendranath Mitra’s short story ‘Abataranika’, stars Madhabi Mukherjee as Arati, a housewife who takes a job of a saleswoman and unsettles her family in the process.
Ray won the Silver Bear for Mahanagar at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival in 1964.
A digitally restored version of Satyajit Ray’s Bengali classic Mahanagar (The Big City) will be released on April 18, in select theatres in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Pune, under the PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The film, which was originally released in September 1963, will be re-released with English subtitles.
Mahanagar has been digitally restored by The Rdb Organization headed by Kamal Bansal. The British Film Institute (BFI), had held screenings of the restored version in the United Kingdom last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the film.
Made in 1963, the timeless classic based on Narendranath Mitra’s short story ‘Abataranika’, stars Madhabi Mukherjee as Arati, a housewife who takes a job of a saleswoman and unsettles her family in the process.
Ray won the Silver Bear for Mahanagar at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival in 1964.
- 4/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from “Nayak”
A restored version of Satyajit Ray’s Nayak will screen at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival in the ‘Berlinale Classics’ section.
The film, that won a Special Recognition in 1966 at the same festival, has been restored by Rdb Entertainments in 2K resolution last year.
Ray’s Nayak is a film about a film star who is travelling to Delhi from Calcutta to receive his National Award and reveals a lot more about his personality to a young journalist than he intends to.
The film had also won the National Award for Best Feature in Bengali.
Five other Ray classics, including Charulata, Mahanagar, Kapurush, Mahapurush and Jai Baba Felunath had been restored earlier by Rdb Entertainments.
A restored version of Satyajit Ray’s Nayak will screen at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival in the ‘Berlinale Classics’ section.
The film, that won a Special Recognition in 1966 at the same festival, has been restored by Rdb Entertainments in 2K resolution last year.
Ray’s Nayak is a film about a film star who is travelling to Delhi from Calcutta to receive his National Award and reveals a lot more about his personality to a young journalist than he intends to.
The film had also won the National Award for Best Feature in Bengali.
Five other Ray classics, including Charulata, Mahanagar, Kapurush, Mahapurush and Jai Baba Felunath had been restored earlier by Rdb Entertainments.
- 1/24/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Excitement governed Day 7 of the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Association of Moving Images (Mami) and presented by Reliance Entertainment. While the penultimate day had an amazing lineup of events, it also signified that only one day of the Festival remains.
Today’s list of master pieces included Shield of Straw directed by Takashi Miike, Before Midnight directed by Richard Linklater, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Om Prakash Srivastava’s A Few Days More, Gloria directed by Sebastian Lelio, legendary Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar, The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenabar, Costa Gavras’ Capital, Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag among many more.
A must watch on today’s list was director Mirra Bank’s “The Only Real Game”, a documentary exploring the power of baseball for people in Manipur. A small group of baseball-loving New Yorkers and two Major...
Today’s list of master pieces included Shield of Straw directed by Takashi Miike, Before Midnight directed by Richard Linklater, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Om Prakash Srivastava’s A Few Days More, Gloria directed by Sebastian Lelio, legendary Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar, The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenabar, Costa Gavras’ Capital, Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag among many more.
A must watch on today’s list was director Mirra Bank’s “The Only Real Game”, a documentary exploring the power of baseball for people in Manipur. A small group of baseball-loving New Yorkers and two Major...
- 10/26/2013
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
“Movie Houses of Worship” is a regular feature spotlighting our favorite movie theaters around the world, those that are like temples of cinema catering to the most religious-like film geeks. This week, Fsr’s Allison Loring chose one of her favorite theaters in Los Angeles. If you’d like to suggest or submit a place you regularly worship at the altar of cinema, please email our weekend editor. Aero Theater Location: 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA Opened: Originally opened in 1939 as a 24-hour theater for aircraft workers, but closed in 2003 after Robert Redford’s Sundance Cinemas project (which was going to take over ownership of the theater) fell through because General Cinemas (which was being sold to AMC) went bankrupt. The Aero is now officially known as the “Max Palevsky Aero Theater” thanks to Palevsky’s funding for the American Cinematheque’s refurbishment of the theater which re-opened in January 2005. No. of...
- 9/22/2013
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Fast & Furious 6 on DVD is too much of a dubiously good thing, but Curzon Home Cinema's classics are well worth streaming
There was a time when two-hour-plus films were the preserve of languorous art cinema and porridgey Richard Attenborough-style biopics. Nowadays that's still true – though you can add the cheerfully petrol-brained Fast & Furious franchise to the list. Clocking in at 135 minutes, the rather ironically titled Fast & Furious 6 (Universal, 12) is the longest and most extravagantly ridiculous entry in a series you would expect to have started cutting some corners after 12 years. While you have to commend departing director Justin Lin for the generous abundance of steel-on-steel showdowns in this mostly London-set excursion for the now familiar band of speed freaks, the film may be too much of a dubiously good thing.
As much as its expertly choreographed action has been conceived for the big screen, Fast & Furious 6...
There was a time when two-hour-plus films were the preserve of languorous art cinema and porridgey Richard Attenborough-style biopics. Nowadays that's still true – though you can add the cheerfully petrol-brained Fast & Furious franchise to the list. Clocking in at 135 minutes, the rather ironically titled Fast & Furious 6 (Universal, 12) is the longest and most extravagantly ridiculous entry in a series you would expect to have started cutting some corners after 12 years. While you have to commend departing director Justin Lin for the generous abundance of steel-on-steel showdowns in this mostly London-set excursion for the now familiar band of speed freaks, the film may be too much of a dubiously good thing.
As much as its expertly choreographed action has been conceived for the big screen, Fast & Furious 6...
- 9/16/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox is the only Indian film to feature in the lineup of the 40th edition of Telluride Film Festival. The festival programmers call it an “Elegant Chekhovian comedy-drama”.
The festival will screen 27 new features in its main section including Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche, Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón and The Past by Asghar Farhadi.
The festival will be held in the mountain town of Telluride in Colorado from August 29 – September 2, 2013.
In a special presentation, author Salman Rushdie who was the guest director of Telluride Film Festival in 2004 will present Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic Mahanagar at the festival.
The Lunchbox will release in India on September 20, 2013. Karan Johar will present the film which will be released by Disney Utv. The film features Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It premiered at the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
The festival will screen 27 new features in its main section including Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche, Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón and The Past by Asghar Farhadi.
The festival will be held in the mountain town of Telluride in Colorado from August 29 – September 2, 2013.
In a special presentation, author Salman Rushdie who was the guest director of Telluride Film Festival in 2004 will present Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic Mahanagar at the festival.
The Lunchbox will release in India on September 20, 2013. Karan Johar will present the film which will be released by Disney Utv. The film features Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It premiered at the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
- 8/29/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Twenty-seven new features will screen over the extended five-day anniversary event and there will be tributes to Robert Redford, T-Bone Burnett, the Coen Brothers and Mohammad Rasoulof - and there has already been a Us acquisition.
While observers do not expect much buyer activity at the festival, Zeitgeist announced it had made a preemptive Us buy on Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair (see below).
The Sony Pictures Classics team, RADiUS-twc, IFC, Fox Searchlight’s production head Claudia Lewis and president of Paramount Film Group Adam Goodman are among those expected to attend the Colorado event, which runs from Aug 29 through the additional day of programming on Sept 2.
The main programme features are:
All Is Lost, Robert RedfordBefore The Winter Chill (France) Philippe ClaudelBethlehem (Israel) Yuval AdlerBlue Is The Warmest Color (France) Abdellatif KechicheBurning Bush (Czech Republic) Agnieszka HollandDeath Row: Blaine Milam + Robert Fratta, Werner HerzogFifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra FarahaniThe...
While observers do not expect much buyer activity at the festival, Zeitgeist announced it had made a preemptive Us buy on Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair (see below).
The Sony Pictures Classics team, RADiUS-twc, IFC, Fox Searchlight’s production head Claudia Lewis and president of Paramount Film Group Adam Goodman are among those expected to attend the Colorado event, which runs from Aug 29 through the additional day of programming on Sept 2.
The main programme features are:
All Is Lost, Robert RedfordBefore The Winter Chill (France) Philippe ClaudelBethlehem (Israel) Yuval AdlerBlue Is The Warmest Color (France) Abdellatif KechicheBurning Bush (Czech Republic) Agnieszka HollandDeath Row: Blaine Milam + Robert Fratta, Werner HerzogFifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra FarahaniThe...
- 8/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Apart from the three sneak screening titles that will stir up the buzz in the coming days, Julie Huntsinger and Tom Luddy’s 40th edition of the Telluride Film Festival excels in bringing a concentration of solid docus from the likes of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog who this year cuts the ribbon on a theatre going by his name and introduces Death Row, a pinch of Berlin Film Fest items (Gloria, Slow Food Story, Fifi Howls from Happiness) Palme d’Or winner (this year Abdellatif Kechiche will be celebrated), upcoming Sony Pictures Classics items (Tim’s Vermeer, The Lunchbox), Venice to Telluride to Tiff titles (Bethlehem, Tracks and Under the Skin), the latest Jason Reitman film (Labor Day) and the barely known docu-home-movie whodunit (by helmers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine) The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden which features narration from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Matthew Vaughn and Brad Pitt-produced actioner packed less than the original, while Disney's animation soared nicely
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
• More on Kick-Ass 2
The winner
Thanks to Wednesday/Thursday previews totalling just over £1m, Kick-Ass 2 lands at the top of the UK box-office chart with takings of £2.48m. It's the fifth chart-topper of 2013 for the distributor Universal, following Les Misérables, Oblivion, Fast & Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2.
While Universal and the production companies – Matthew Vaughn's Marv and Brad Pitt's Plan B – will be happy with the chart placing, closer consideration of the data yields less for them to celebrate. The original Kick-Ass debuted with £3.88m, including extensive previews of £2.05m, on its way to an £11.77m total. While you wouldn't always expect a sequel to match the total box-office of the original, you would certainly anticipate a relatively strong opening,...
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
• More on Kick-Ass 2
The winner
Thanks to Wednesday/Thursday previews totalling just over £1m, Kick-Ass 2 lands at the top of the UK box-office chart with takings of £2.48m. It's the fifth chart-topper of 2013 for the distributor Universal, following Les Misérables, Oblivion, Fast & Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2.
While Universal and the production companies – Matthew Vaughn's Marv and Brad Pitt's Plan B – will be happy with the chart placing, closer consideration of the data yields less for them to celebrate. The original Kick-Ass debuted with £3.88m, including extensive previews of £2.05m, on its way to an £11.77m total. While you wouldn't always expect a sequel to match the total box-office of the original, you would certainly anticipate a relatively strong opening,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"Amour"
What's It About? Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke tells the heart-wrenching story of an elderly couple fighting against the deterioration of the body and mind in this brutally honest French drama. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are retired octogenarian music teachers whose lives vastly alter when Anne suffers from the first of several strokes. Georges struggles to take care of his wife as watches her gradually lose her ability to move and speak.
Why We're In: One of the most powerful films in recent years and winner of the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, "Amour" shows love at its most harrowing. Known as a horror master, Haneke uses slow-pacing and raw storytelling in this film to truly show life's real horrors. With some of the best performances ever from Riva and Trintignant, "Amour" is not merely a film that will make you weep,...
"Amour"
What's It About? Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke tells the heart-wrenching story of an elderly couple fighting against the deterioration of the body and mind in this brutally honest French drama. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are retired octogenarian music teachers whose lives vastly alter when Anne suffers from the first of several strokes. Georges struggles to take care of his wife as watches her gradually lose her ability to move and speak.
Why We're In: One of the most powerful films in recent years and winner of the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, "Amour" shows love at its most harrowing. Known as a horror master, Haneke uses slow-pacing and raw storytelling in this film to truly show life's real horrors. With some of the best performances ever from Riva and Trintignant, "Amour" is not merely a film that will make you weep,...
- 8/20/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
Boardwalk Empire - Season 3 I now need to watch season two and three of this show and I mean to, it's just I always put watching movies ahead of watching television and there is just only so much time in the day. I was satisfied with the first season, but I honestly can't say it had me clamoring for more. Have you seen the second and thirdc Is it worth the effortc
Amour The Best Foreign Language Oscar winner is coming home, but as much as this is a fantastic film is it one you want to ownc
Epic I missed Epic due to being at the Cannes Film Festival when it screened. It's got a 64% over at RottenTomatoes so it can't be all that bad, but I don't anticipate making the effort to see it.
Scary Movie 5 From what I understand this is one of the worst movies...
Amour The Best Foreign Language Oscar winner is coming home, but as much as this is a fantastic film is it one you want to ownc
Epic I missed Epic due to being at the Cannes Film Festival when it screened. It's got a 64% over at RottenTomatoes so it can't be all that bad, but I don't anticipate making the effort to see it.
Scary Movie 5 From what I understand this is one of the worst movies...
- 8/20/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Satyajit Ray's enduring 1963 masterpiece about one woman's struggle for independence is back on the big screen
Satyajit Ray, who died in 1992 at the age of 70, is one of the giants of world cinema. The son of a prominent Bengali literary figure, he was an accomplished writer, composer, editor and artist as well as a great movie director. His passionate interest in the cinema developed early on, and shortly after the second world war he accompanied Jean Renoir when he travelled to India to scout locations for The River. Subsequently he wrote a wonderfully perceptive article about this experience for Sequence, the film magazine edited by Lindsay Anderson, Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz.
During a visit to Europe to work in the London headquarters of his Calcutta advertising agency, he saw Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and decided that on his return he wanted to make a movie in...
Satyajit Ray, who died in 1992 at the age of 70, is one of the giants of world cinema. The son of a prominent Bengali literary figure, he was an accomplished writer, composer, editor and artist as well as a great movie director. His passionate interest in the cinema developed early on, and shortly after the second world war he accompanied Jean Renoir when he travelled to India to scout locations for The River. Subsequently he wrote a wonderfully perceptive article about this experience for Sequence, the film magazine edited by Lindsay Anderson, Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz.
During a visit to Europe to work in the London headquarters of his Calcutta advertising agency, he saw Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and decided that on his return he wanted to make a movie in...
- 8/17/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Kick-Ass 2 | 2 Guns | Planes | The Big City | Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Again | Bachelorette | Call Girl | Aftershock | Kuma | When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun
Kick-Ass 2 (15)
(Jeff Wadlow, 2013, Us/UK) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Jim Carrey, 103 mins
The amateur Avengers return, though the sequel finds them weighed down by their superhero lifestyles, or is it audience expectations? The ingredients that made the first movie such a pleasure are all here – absurd alter-egos, ultraviolence, high-school angst, swearing – just minus the element of surprise. As a result, this incident-packed story struggles to recapture that balance between comic-book zaniness and real-world teen comedy.
2 Guns (15)
(Baltasar Kormákur, 2013, Us) Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton. 109 mins
Two double-crossed undercover agents must unravel a convoluted conspiracy (and learn to get along, of course) in what could almost be a Lethal Weapon reboot. Washington and Wahlberg spark off each other nicely, which is all that's needed.
Kick-Ass 2 (15)
(Jeff Wadlow, 2013, Us/UK) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Jim Carrey, 103 mins
The amateur Avengers return, though the sequel finds them weighed down by their superhero lifestyles, or is it audience expectations? The ingredients that made the first movie such a pleasure are all here – absurd alter-egos, ultraviolence, high-school angst, swearing – just minus the element of surprise. As a result, this incident-packed story struggles to recapture that balance between comic-book zaniness and real-world teen comedy.
2 Guns (15)
(Baltasar Kormákur, 2013, Us) Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton. 109 mins
Two double-crossed undercover agents must unravel a convoluted conspiracy (and learn to get along, of course) in what could almost be a Lethal Weapon reboot. Washington and Wahlberg spark off each other nicely, which is all that's needed.
- 8/17/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Satyajit Ray's 1963 film about a Calcutta woman blossoming in the world of work is utterly absorbing
Satyajit Ray's glorious film Mahanagar, or The Big City, is rereleased 50 years on: it is an utterly absorbing and moving drama about the changing worlds of work and home in 1950s India, and a hymn to uxorious love acted with lightness, intelligence and wit. Madhabi Mukherjee is superb as Arati, the demure wife of Subrata (Anil Chatterjee), a sweet-natured, semi-competent bank employee in Calcutta. To help out with the family finances, she takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman, promoting a new knitting machine – and is electrified by her new self-esteem and cash. Encouraged by her feisty, flighty colleague Edith (Vicky Redwood), an Anglo-Indian of the sort not much loved in the city, she insists on lucrative commissions for her rocketing sales and blossoms as a beautiful professional woman about town. Ray...
Satyajit Ray's glorious film Mahanagar, or The Big City, is rereleased 50 years on: it is an utterly absorbing and moving drama about the changing worlds of work and home in 1950s India, and a hymn to uxorious love acted with lightness, intelligence and wit. Madhabi Mukherjee is superb as Arati, the demure wife of Subrata (Anil Chatterjee), a sweet-natured, semi-competent bank employee in Calcutta. To help out with the family finances, she takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman, promoting a new knitting machine – and is electrified by her new self-esteem and cash. Encouraged by her feisty, flighty colleague Edith (Vicky Redwood), an Anglo-Indian of the sort not much loved in the city, she insists on lucrative commissions for her rocketing sales and blossoms as a beautiful professional woman about town. Ray...
- 8/15/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Re-released for its fiftieth anniversary, Satyajit Ray’s The Big City tells the tale of a family struggling to adjust to great social change, in a time when the notion of a woman’s place was suddenly debatable. Ray’s deeply sensitive portrayal of his subject is as relevant today as it was upon its original release.
Set in 1950’s Calcutta, The Big City centres on Arati Mazumdar (Madhabi Mukherjee) and her husband Subrata Mazumdar (Anil Chatterjee), as the power balance in their marriage starts to shift in response to great social pressures. In a city in financial crisis, the Mazumdar family find that Subrata’s bank clerk wage is increasingly falling short of what is required to support himself, his wife and their extended family, generations of which live under one roof. However, when Arati decides to contribute herself, and takes a job as a door-to-door sales girl, Subrata...
Set in 1950’s Calcutta, The Big City centres on Arati Mazumdar (Madhabi Mukherjee) and her husband Subrata Mazumdar (Anil Chatterjee), as the power balance in their marriage starts to shift in response to great social pressures. In a city in financial crisis, the Mazumdar family find that Subrata’s bank clerk wage is increasingly falling short of what is required to support himself, his wife and their extended family, generations of which live under one roof. However, when Arati decides to contribute herself, and takes a job as a door-to-door sales girl, Subrata...
- 8/15/2013
- by Georgia Fleury Reynolds
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Picture credit: Mahapurush/The Holy Man © BFI National Archive
Besides hosting a Satyajit Ray season throughout August and September, the British Film Institute (BFI) is holding the first exhibition in the UK to highlight Satyajit Ray’s design works.
The exhibition will be held at the BFI Southbank from 14 August until mid-October and is free for all.
Before Ray directed Pather Panchali in 1955, he worked as a graphic designer for an advertising agency in Kolkata. In addition to creating over 30 films throughout his career he also designed many of their sets, costumes, credit sequences and posters.
A selection of the director’s poster designs will be on show in the Atrium at the BFI Southbank. It will include both original and facsimile posters, showcasing the best of Ray’s creations.
“Ray’s unique graphic style owed as much to Indian art and indigenous folklore as it did to Western traditions.
Besides hosting a Satyajit Ray season throughout August and September, the British Film Institute (BFI) is holding the first exhibition in the UK to highlight Satyajit Ray’s design works.
The exhibition will be held at the BFI Southbank from 14 August until mid-October and is free for all.
Before Ray directed Pather Panchali in 1955, he worked as a graphic designer for an advertising agency in Kolkata. In addition to creating over 30 films throughout his career he also designed many of their sets, costumes, credit sequences and posters.
A selection of the director’s poster designs will be on show in the Atrium at the BFI Southbank. It will include both original and facsimile posters, showcasing the best of Ray’s creations.
“Ray’s unique graphic style owed as much to Indian art and indigenous folklore as it did to Western traditions.
- 8/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | The Lone Ranger | Foxfire | David Bowie Is Happening Now | Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters | Grown Ups 2 | Looking For Hortense | Silence | Chennai Express
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
- 8/10/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Chichester International Film Festival | Satyajit Ray: Part One | Deep Fried film festival | The Adventure Travel film festival
Chichester International Film Festival
This festival always strikes a balance between curiosity-sating international cinema and British films for the home crowd. Timely transatlantic opener Austenland throws Keri Russell into a heritage-tourist romcom in Buckinghamshire, which contrasts with post-apocalyptic indie Welcome To The Majority, and modern ballet romance Love Tomorrow. Other highlights include Swedish political-prostitution drama Call Girl, and Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in divorce tale What Maisie Knew.
Chichester Cinema at New Park, Thu to 1 Sep
Satyajit Ray: Part One, London
It's striking to note how little influence India's greatest film-maker seems to have had on his national cinema. In the context of the commercial mainstream, or even the Indian independent movement, Ray's wise, calm, humane influence has been depressingly small since his death in 1992, but it's never too late.
Chichester International Film Festival
This festival always strikes a balance between curiosity-sating international cinema and British films for the home crowd. Timely transatlantic opener Austenland throws Keri Russell into a heritage-tourist romcom in Buckinghamshire, which contrasts with post-apocalyptic indie Welcome To The Majority, and modern ballet romance Love Tomorrow. Other highlights include Swedish political-prostitution drama Call Girl, and Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in divorce tale What Maisie Knew.
Chichester Cinema at New Park, Thu to 1 Sep
Satyajit Ray: Part One, London
It's striking to note how little influence India's greatest film-maker seems to have had on his national cinema. In the context of the commercial mainstream, or even the Indian independent movement, Ray's wise, calm, humane influence has been depressingly small since his death in 1992, but it's never too late.
- 8/10/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Criterion brings two of auteur Satyajit Ray’s early 60s works to the collection this month with Charulata (1964) and The Big City (1963), both starring Madhabi Mukherjee in phenomenal performances. While both explore women’s lives in a rigidly male dominated world, it’s the earlier film that stands as Ray’s first look at contemporary life in his native Kolkata. While his nine previous films were either period pieces or set outside of the city (Charulata, in fact, sees him returning to period, set in 1870s India), the coalescence of budget and talent finally brought his modern times project to fruition, which he had apparently been wanting to make since his 1955 Palme d’Or winning debut, Pather Panchali. Beyond being simply the story of a woman, Ray constructs an intimate character study that examines an uncomfortably changing social climate, economic pressures, racial injustice, and the moral obligation to do the right thing.
- 8/6/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Few distributors do as much for classic and contemporary cinema as The Criterion Collection does in their efforts to preserve important films and bring them into a new generation of media. Each month The Criterion Collection release four to six films on DVD and Blu-ray complete with a healthy dose of specially created extras highlighting the filmmakers, the historical context of the film, or its restoration. In August, The Criterion Collection releases John Frankenheimer's thriller Seconds starring Rock Hudson, Ernst Lubitsch's Jack Benny and Carole Lombard comedy To Be or Not to Be, Satyajit Ray's Charulata and The Big City, and Max Ophuls's romance The Earrings of Madame de.... For more information on all the releases, read on.
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- 7/25/2013
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
While the British Film Institute (BFI) is releasing a restored version of Satyajit Ray’s “Mahanagar” in the UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the film; National award winning film critic and scholar Shoma Chatterji revisits Ray’s 1963 masterpiece
Image courtesy: Arindam Saha Sardar & Soumendu Roy
M ahanagar is set in 1955. Ray’s own moving away from his joint family in 1948 was a forerunner of the major shifts in Bengali society following independence. Mahanagar was based on a short story penned by Narendranath Mitra named “Abataranika”. Narendra Mitra, who was alive then, is said to have approved of Ray’s script. The original story placed the husband at the centre. Ray shifted the emphasis to place it on the wife, Arati. This change of focus re-wrote the history of women in Indian cinema. It traced the beginnings of the working wife in a lower middle-class family of Calcutta, her...
Image courtesy: Arindam Saha Sardar & Soumendu Roy
M ahanagar is set in 1955. Ray’s own moving away from his joint family in 1948 was a forerunner of the major shifts in Bengali society following independence. Mahanagar was based on a short story penned by Narendranath Mitra named “Abataranika”. Narendra Mitra, who was alive then, is said to have approved of Ray’s script. The original story placed the husband at the centre. Ray shifted the emphasis to place it on the wife, Arati. This change of focus re-wrote the history of women in Indian cinema. It traced the beginnings of the working wife in a lower middle-class family of Calcutta, her...
- 7/20/2013
- by Shoma A. Chatterji
- DearCinema.com
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