Waheeda Rehman & Guru Dutt in Pyaasa
The 28th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival, one of the major film festivals in the world dedicated to film restoration, will showcase a special section titled “The Golden ’50s: Endangered Indian Classics”.
This package has been curated by the Film Heritage Foundation founded by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur in Mumbai with the aim of showcasing landmark Indian films and creating awareness about the urgent need for preservation and restoration of these films.
The festival will be held in Bologna (Italy) from June 28 to July 5. The festival website says about Indian cinema, “One of the most important film heritages in the world. Quantitatively it has no rival, but it urgently needs to be preserved: this exhibition aims to be a reconnaissance, a first exploratory step towards recovering the classics of Indian cinema.”
The package includes Raj Kapoor’s Awaara, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India,...
The 28th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival, one of the major film festivals in the world dedicated to film restoration, will showcase a special section titled “The Golden ’50s: Endangered Indian Classics”.
This package has been curated by the Film Heritage Foundation founded by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur in Mumbai with the aim of showcasing landmark Indian films and creating awareness about the urgent need for preservation and restoration of these films.
The festival will be held in Bologna (Italy) from June 28 to July 5. The festival website says about Indian cinema, “One of the most important film heritages in the world. Quantitatively it has no rival, but it urgently needs to be preserved: this exhibition aims to be a reconnaissance, a first exploratory step towards recovering the classics of Indian cinema.”
The package includes Raj Kapoor’s Awaara, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India,...
- 5/5/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Ritwik Ghatak
The Kolkata International Film Festival will pay a special tribute to filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in its 17th edition.
Ghatak’s 1961 film Komal Gandhar-- that deals with the aftermath of partition of India in 1947 will be screened as a tribute. Komal Gandhar is part of a trilogy based in Kolkata along with Meghe Dhaka Tara and Subarnarekha, Ghatak’s well-known films.
Ghatak would have been 86 on November 4. One of the greatest filmmakers of India, Ghatak directed 8 feature films in his lifetime. Ajantrik was his first commercial release in 1958. He taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii).
The Kolkata International Film Festival will pay a special tribute to filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in its 17th edition.
Ghatak’s 1961 film Komal Gandhar-- that deals with the aftermath of partition of India in 1947 will be screened as a tribute. Komal Gandhar is part of a trilogy based in Kolkata along with Meghe Dhaka Tara and Subarnarekha, Ghatak’s well-known films.
Ghatak would have been 86 on November 4. One of the greatest filmmakers of India, Ghatak directed 8 feature films in his lifetime. Ajantrik was his first commercial release in 1958. He taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii).
- 11/4/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 10th edition of Imagineindia Film Festival will take place in Madrid from 17th to 31st May - 2011. Entries have been invited for the festival. Imagineindia 2011 will present more than 90 films. It will pay homages to Stanley Donnen, Geraldine Chaplin, Rolf De Heer, Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
Imagineindia Barcelona 2010 will take place at Casa Asia in Barcelona in September. The films that will be screened in the festival are Firaaq by Nandita Das (Winner of 3 Imagineindia Awards in Madrid), Aamir by Rajkumar Gupta, Do Paise Ki Dhoop Char Ane Ki Barish by Deepti Naval, Gulaal by Anurag Kashyap, Harishchandrachi Factory by Paresh Mokashi, Supermen Of Malegaon by Faiza Ahmed Khan, Kharij by Mrinal Sen, Teen Kanya by Satyajit Ray, Ajantrik by Ritwik Ghatak, Little Zizou by Sooni Taraporevala, Khamosh Pani by Sabiha Sumar.
Imagineindia Barcelona 2010 will take place at Casa Asia in Barcelona in September. The films that will be screened in the festival are Firaaq by Nandita Das (Winner of 3 Imagineindia Awards in Madrid), Aamir by Rajkumar Gupta, Do Paise Ki Dhoop Char Ane Ki Barish by Deepti Naval, Gulaal by Anurag Kashyap, Harishchandrachi Factory by Paresh Mokashi, Supermen Of Malegaon by Faiza Ahmed Khan, Kharij by Mrinal Sen, Teen Kanya by Satyajit Ray, Ajantrik by Ritwik Ghatak, Little Zizou by Sooni Taraporevala, Khamosh Pani by Sabiha Sumar.
- 8/4/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A film and discussion series, "Moving Politics – Cinemas from India", curated by Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf will be held at the Deutsche Guggenheim museum at Germany. The event will be organized on the occasion of the exhibition, "Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India" at the museum.
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
- 6/17/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A three-day Ritwik Ghatak film festival here is showing the works of one of the titans of Indian cinema who was hurt by the 1947 India-Pakistan partition and returned to make a film when Bangladesh became free. Ghatak was born in Dhaka and lived for several years in this city before moving to Kolkata. The festival, which began on Thursday, is showing eight full-length films by Ghatak - Nagarik, Ajantrik, Bari Theke Paliye, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Komal Gandhar, Subarnarekha, Titash Ekti Nadir Naam and Jukti Takko Aar Gappo. The loss of his home in East Bengal had ...
- 12/19/2009
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
A three-day Ritwik Ghatak film festival here is showing the works of one of the titans of Indian cinema who was hurt by the 1947 India-Pakistan partition and returned to make a film when Bangladesh became free.Ghatak was born in Dhaka and lived for several years in this city before moving to Kolkata.The festival, which began Thursday, is showing eight full-length films by Ghatak - 'Nagarik', 'Ajantrik', 'Bari Theke Paliye', 'Meghe Dhaka Tara', 'Komal Gandhar', 'Subarnarekha', 'Titash Ekti Nadir Naam' and 'Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'.The loss of his home in East Bengal had a deep impact on Ghatak and his cinema, participants at a discussion noted.'Ghatak's films are now celebrated in India and beyond. His stature among Bengali film directors is comparable to that of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. Nevertheless, he is rarely remembered ceremonially in Bangladesh,...
- 12/17/2009
- Filmicafe
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