Guneet Monga
Indian producer Guneet Monga will sit on the International Jury of the 9th Zurich Film Festival to be held in Switzerland from September 26- October 6, 2013.
The Jury will be presided over by Swiss-German director, producer and screenwriter Marc Forster, whose most recent and successful film is World War Z.
The other members of the Jury are Us American producer Stacy Sher (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained), Australian director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly) and Swiss director, screenwriter and producer Thomas Imbach (Happiness is a Warm Gun).
Monga recently produced Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox and Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout both of which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2013. She has earlier produced critically acclaimed films such as Gangs of Wasseypur, Shahid, Peddlers and That Girl in Yellow Boots. She was recently conferred the Industry Leadership award at...
Indian producer Guneet Monga will sit on the International Jury of the 9th Zurich Film Festival to be held in Switzerland from September 26- October 6, 2013.
The Jury will be presided over by Swiss-German director, producer and screenwriter Marc Forster, whose most recent and successful film is World War Z.
The other members of the Jury are Us American producer Stacy Sher (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained), Australian director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly) and Swiss director, screenwriter and producer Thomas Imbach (Happiness is a Warm Gun).
Monga recently produced Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox and Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout both of which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2013. She has earlier produced critically acclaimed films such as Gangs of Wasseypur, Shahid, Peddlers and That Girl in Yellow Boots. She was recently conferred the Industry Leadership award at...
- 7/27/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
World War Z director to head international feature jury at the Zurch Film Festival that will also include Django Unchained producer Stacy Sher and Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik.
Swiss-German director, producer and screenwriter Marc Forster, whose recent credits include World War Z and Quantum of Solace, is to head the international film competition jury at the 9th Zurch Film Festival (Sep 26 - Oct 6).
Forster, who also directed The Kite Runner, Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball and Machine Gun Preacher, said: “I have followed the success story of the Zurich Film Festival from afar and I’m certain that a fascinating task awaits me.”
His fellow jury members have also been announced and include Us producer Stacy Sher (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained); Indian producer Guneet Monga (The Lunchbox, Monsoon Shootout); Australian director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James…, Killing Them Softly); and Swiss director, screenwriter and producer Thaoms Imbach (Happiness Is A Warm Gun).
Swiss-German director, producer and screenwriter Marc Forster, whose recent credits include World War Z and Quantum of Solace, is to head the international film competition jury at the 9th Zurch Film Festival (Sep 26 - Oct 6).
Forster, who also directed The Kite Runner, Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball and Machine Gun Preacher, said: “I have followed the success story of the Zurich Film Festival from afar and I’m certain that a fascinating task awaits me.”
His fellow jury members have also been announced and include Us producer Stacy Sher (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained); Indian producer Guneet Monga (The Lunchbox, Monsoon Shootout); Australian director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James…, Killing Them Softly); and Swiss director, screenwriter and producer Thaoms Imbach (Happiness Is A Warm Gun).
- 7/26/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
“Happiness is a warm gun.” - John Lennon
A fitting lead-in Remy wanted me to include for this week’s topic, as my typically lovable collaborator has been falling on tough times recently. Everyone hits a rough patch, me included most definitely, so I wanted to help him out this week with an uplifting focus. We’ve done “Worst Of” lists and wrote about terrible horror movies, so this week I suggested we simply write about the horror movies that make us happy. Smiles and positivity are the only way to fight the blues, and horror movies certainly have their own signature ways of cheering up viewers!
But yes, I know, it’s crazy to even think a disgusting horror flick about murderers and psychopaths could cheer someone up, but as you know, the two of us are pretty f#cked up already, so are you that surprised? But seriously,...
A fitting lead-in Remy wanted me to include for this week’s topic, as my typically lovable collaborator has been falling on tough times recently. Everyone hits a rough patch, me included most definitely, so I wanted to help him out this week with an uplifting focus. We’ve done “Worst Of” lists and wrote about terrible horror movies, so this week I suggested we simply write about the horror movies that make us happy. Smiles and positivity are the only way to fight the blues, and horror movies certainly have their own signature ways of cheering up viewers!
But yes, I know, it’s crazy to even think a disgusting horror flick about murderers and psychopaths could cheer someone up, but as you know, the two of us are pretty f#cked up already, so are you that surprised? But seriously,...
- 1/30/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
If The Beatles are indeed right and ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’, then nuclear war must be a slumber party with a full squad of sex-addicted cheerleaders. Thanks to the Cold War, mankind has a lot of nuclear weapons. Not just a lot of nuclear weapons, but a shitload of nuclear weapons. We have enough bombs and missiles to turn the sun into an inter-dimensional wormhole to unleash Yog-Sothoth and it’s basically inevitable this will happen, the first punch thrown when we elect George Bush III and he goes postal on Belgium.
And just what happens if Chuck Norris can’t roundhouse kick their entire retaliatory response from orbit and a few dozen warheads actually explode? Or if some other world-ending event happens to occur? Well, if you watch post-apocalyptic movies, you might fancy yourself some kind of a survival expert, a real John Connor or Bear Grylls even.
And just what happens if Chuck Norris can’t roundhouse kick their entire retaliatory response from orbit and a few dozen warheads actually explode? Or if some other world-ending event happens to occur? Well, if you watch post-apocalyptic movies, you might fancy yourself some kind of a survival expert, a real John Connor or Bear Grylls even.
- 12/20/2011
- by Robert Curtis
- Obsessed with Film
Thomas Imbach's Day Is Done, which screened in the Forum at this year's Berlinale in February and won the Zurich Film Award 2011 earlier this month, opens in Berlin on Thursday. The site's flaunting some pretty winning quotes, with Screen Daily noting that the documentary essay features "images of ravishing though unconventional urban beauty," while Der Tagesspiegel writes that an "evocative maelstrom of great power emerges in the course of nearly two hours."
But you won't have to be in Berlin to watch work by this independent Swiss filmmaker. For a full year, we'll be showing a selection of Films by Thomas Imbach.
Well Done (1994) is an absurdist comedy about the all but uncontrollable flow of data and money through Switzerland. Augusteb "loved it." In Ghetto (1997), we follow a group of teens through an anarchic class room, a basement disco and into the night. "Allow the film 15 minutes to start sinking into you,...
But you won't have to be in Berlin to watch work by this independent Swiss filmmaker. For a full year, we'll be showing a selection of Films by Thomas Imbach.
Well Done (1994) is an absurdist comedy about the all but uncontrollable flow of data and money through Switzerland. Augusteb "loved it." In Ghetto (1997), we follow a group of teens through an anarchic class room, a basement disco and into the night. "Allow the film 15 minutes to start sinking into you,...
- 11/28/2011
- MUBI
The rise of Final Cut and Youtube has taken the art of the movie clip mashup into the stratosphere, offering us montages of pretty much every line ever spoken and every action performed by any actor, ever. But the social networking generation didn't create the form, folks, and for proof, look no further than the early work of one Edgar Wright.
You may remember Mr. Wright from such films as "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" and "Shaun of the Dead," but back in 1993, he was just a young lad with a lot of time on his hands and a deep love of movies.
Thus, we have "Gun Fetish" (via Movieline) -- a mashup of firearms scenes from a number of movies created by Wright over the course of several long 1993 weekends in a VHS editing suite. Set to the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," the piece contains highlights from "Taxi Driver,...
You may remember Mr. Wright from such films as "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" and "Shaun of the Dead," but back in 1993, he was just a young lad with a lot of time on his hands and a deep love of movies.
Thus, we have "Gun Fetish" (via Movieline) -- a mashup of firearms scenes from a number of movies created by Wright over the course of several long 1993 weekends in a VHS editing suite. Set to the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," the piece contains highlights from "Taxi Driver,...
- 4/7/2011
- by Adam Swiderski
- NextMovie
Chicago – “The Beatles: Rock Band” is easily the most fulfilling music gaming experience to date. As someone who has played all of the “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band” releases so far, I can tell you from experience that most of these titles are easy to pick up and put down without a concrete narrative to drive a player from beginning to end. “The Beatles: Rock Band” has turned the music game sub-genre into something it hasn’t been yet - a complete journey instead of just a collection of songs.
Video Game Rating: 4.5/5.0 When “The Beatles: Rock Band” came into our office, I was on my way out for a Labor Day weekend, so I handed the title off to a freelance staff writer named Matthew Priest, who also happens to be an enormous Beatles fan and the lead singer of a great Chicago band, Canasta. Since then, I’ve...
Video Game Rating: 4.5/5.0 When “The Beatles: Rock Band” came into our office, I was on my way out for a Labor Day weekend, so I handed the title off to a freelance staff writer named Matthew Priest, who also happens to be an enormous Beatles fan and the lead singer of a great Chicago band, Canasta. Since then, I’ve...
- 9/9/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
'They made such a huge impact on pop culture,' he says in anticipation of the September 9 release of 'The Beatles: Rock Band.'
By MTV News staff
Pete Wentz
Photo: MTV News
On September 9, "The Beatles: Rock Band" will hit stores around the world, thrilling not just gamers, but hard-core Fab Four fans too.
And one guy who fits into both of those categories pretty nicely is Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz (though, to be honest, he prefers video games of the 8-bit variety). Don't let the tattoos fool you — he's been a die-hard Beatles fan for as long as he can remember.
"I remember listening to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' and I didn't know it was a Beatles song at all; I just liked the song a lot when I was a little dude," he told MTV News. "I missed out on it in my teen years,...
By MTV News staff
Pete Wentz
Photo: MTV News
On September 9, "The Beatles: Rock Band" will hit stores around the world, thrilling not just gamers, but hard-core Fab Four fans too.
And one guy who fits into both of those categories pretty nicely is Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz (though, to be honest, he prefers video games of the 8-bit variety). Don't let the tattoos fool you — he's been a die-hard Beatles fan for as long as he can remember.
"I remember listening to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' and I didn't know it was a Beatles song at all; I just liked the song a lot when I was a little dude," he told MTV News. "I missed out on it in my teen years,...
- 9/1/2009
- MTV Music News
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