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[jyotirmoy]

From tomorrow we have two film festivals. Tibetan film fest till 9th. at India International Centre and Osian film festival till 20th.
This year Osian awards Mrinal Sen. This film festival is a great bonhomie and chance to meet the directors and have great chat over chai.

[jyotirmoy]

Among all the films I watched at the Osian Film Festival I really liked these:

Gulabi Talkies by Girish Kasaravalli which got the best Indian film award.
Chalo Let's Go by Anjan Dutta
Sparrow by Johnny To
The Terrorizers by Edward Yang
Loneliness by Hojat Ghasemzadeh Asl
Flight of the Red Balloon by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Band's Visit by Saleh Bakri Best feature award.

[priya]

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Flight of the Red Balloon by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Was this movie an adaptation of Le Ballon Rouge, an academy award winning movie (1956) filmed in Paris? This movie had no dialogue from beginning to end - a wonderful artistic movie, for all ages.


Wiki link.

[jyotirmoy]

Priya, I haven't seen Le Ballon Rouge that you mention. The one I saw is also shot in Paris. It is about a mother & her very young daughter and a Jap student who takes care of the daughter when the mother goes to work. This Jap student she was studying film making and carried a digicam with her always.

[Somerset]

I think the recent Red Balloon film was intended to be a sequel of sorts to the earlier one. I think it was comissioned by the Musee D'Orsay. The recent film will play here in a couple of weeks. We missed "The Band's Visit" when it was here; it seems like a very good movie.

[jyotirmoy]

So nice to see you here after a long gap somerset.
Yes you must try to watch the Band's Visit, a wonderful film.
I would also highly recommend Loneliness by Hojat Ghasemzadeh Asl

For the last couple of years I find Iran producing fabulous films. Rabaan by Majid Majidi is one of them. I would venture to say that now the best festival entries are coming from Iran.

Yashodhara listening????

[Somerset]

jyotirmoy, on Jul 23 2008, 02:47 PM, said:

So nice to see you here after a long gap somerset.
For the last couple of years I find Iran producing fabulous films. Rabaan by Majid Majidi is one of them. I would venture to say that now the best festival entries are coming from Iran.

Yashodhara listening????

Thank you; I've been silently here, enjoying your updates on films and S. Ray. The only films I've had time to watch in several months have been part of Apocalypse Now Redux and my favorite Bollywood Film, Amar Akbar Anthony.

I hope Yashodhara is listening and will rejoin the conversation soon!

[WonderWomanUSA]

Somerset, on Jul 23 2008, 05:41 AM, said:

We missed "The Band's Visit" when it was here; it seems like a very good movie.

It will be out on DVD on 29 July, so watch for it!

[WonderWomanUSA]

We have film festivals here, too. Silent Film Festival just finished.

This week, there are two:

the Jewish Film Festival http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...001&sc=1000

and the Bicycle Film Festival http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...001&sc=1000.

[jyotirmoy]

EU film fest 2009 has begun at Siri Fort.
Two great films today Teah by Hanna A.W. Slak(Slovenia) at 11:30 AM and Relatives by Istvan Szabo(Hungary) at 1:30 PM
Entry is free, passes can be collected half an hour before the screening.

[WonderWomanUSA]

Co-incidentally, San Francisco's Asian American Film Festival begins today: here's their website: http://festival.asia...ricanmedia.org/

We also have a South Asian Film Festival here in November: http://www.thirdi.org/festival/