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Samay, the 9-year-old spitfire at the center of Last Film Show, is a pintsize wheeler-dealer, a wily old soul and a bit of a mechanical genius. As in another recently arrived film, The Fabelmans, this young protagonist’s obsession with the big screen begins with a family trip to the local theater (Spielberg’s name is one of many in the pantheon that writer-director Pan Nalin invokes at the beginning and end of his feature). But for rural kid Samay, owning his very own camera is not an option as it is for suburbanite Sammy Fabelman. With impressive ingenuity, he finds another way to make movies.
Set in 2010, as the art of 35mm projection is about to be made obsolete by the advent of digital, India’s official submission to the Academy Awards is a kid’s-eye-view story that never condescends. Alive with movie love,...
Samay, the 9-year-old spitfire at the center of Last Film Show, is a pintsize wheeler-dealer, a wily old soul and a bit of a mechanical genius. As in another recently arrived film, The Fabelmans, this young protagonist’s obsession with the big screen begins with a family trip to the local theater (Spielberg’s name is one of many in the pantheon that writer-director Pan Nalin invokes at the beginning and end of his feature). But for rural kid Samay, owning his very own camera is not an option as it is for suburbanite Sammy Fabelman. With impressive ingenuity, he finds another way to make movies.
Set in 2010, as the art of 35mm projection is about to be made obsolete by the advent of digital, India’s official submission to the Academy Awards is a kid’s-eye-view story that never condescends. Alive with movie love,...
- 12/9/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last Film Show Review — Last Film Show (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Pan Nalin, and starring Bhavin Rabari, Bhavesh Shrimali, Rahul Koli, Richa Meena, Shoban Makwa, Vikas Bata, Dipen Raval, Kishan Parmar, Vijay Mer, and Tia Sebastian. Crew M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the screenplay for the film. Tom [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Last Film Show (2021): A Tribute to the Old School 35mm Form of Storytelling...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Last Film Show (2021): A Tribute to the Old School 35mm Form of Storytelling...
- 9/28/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Last Film Show Review — Last Film Show (2021) Film Review, from the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Pan Nalin, and starring Bhavin Rabari, Bhavesh Shrimali, Rahul Koli, Richa Meena, Shoban Makwa, Vikas Bata, Dipen Raval, Kishan Parmar, Vijay Mer, and Tia Sebastian. Director Pan Nalin’s powerful new movie is a [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Last Film Show: A Haunting Tribute to the Power of Film [Tribeca 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Last Film Show: A Haunting Tribute to the Power of Film [Tribeca 2021]...
- 6/11/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
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