The 17th Kolkata Film festival to be held from November 10-17, 2011 has announced its lineup. Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Alexander Sokurov’s Faust, Godard’s Film Socialism, Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, among others will be presented at the International Cinema section of the festival.
Joram Lürsen’s The Magicians will be the opening film of the festival.
In a Special Tribute to Uttam Kumar—Nayak directed by Satyajit Ray and documentary Mahanayak—a Superstar’s Journey directed by Swapan Das will be screened.
A Retrospective of Japanese director Shohei Imamura will showcase films like Stolen Desire, Black Rain and Vengeance is Mine, among others.
Carlo Lizzani’s Luchino Visconti: Life as in a romance, Chidananda Dasgupta’s Amodini, Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti, Luchino Visconti’s The Innocent and The Leopard will be screened in the Homage section.
Ritwik Ghatak’s Komal Gandhar and...
Joram Lürsen’s The Magicians will be the opening film of the festival.
In a Special Tribute to Uttam Kumar—Nayak directed by Satyajit Ray and documentary Mahanayak—a Superstar’s Journey directed by Swapan Das will be screened.
A Retrospective of Japanese director Shohei Imamura will showcase films like Stolen Desire, Black Rain and Vengeance is Mine, among others.
Carlo Lizzani’s Luchino Visconti: Life as in a romance, Chidananda Dasgupta’s Amodini, Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti, Luchino Visconti’s The Innocent and The Leopard will be screened in the Homage section.
Ritwik Ghatak’s Komal Gandhar and...
- 11/7/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Chidananda Das Gupta memorial meeting was held in New Delhi on June 24. In the meeting organized by the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), many eminent personalities paid their tributes to the filmmaker, film critic and historian who died last month.
The meeting was followed by the screening of the 1994 Bangla feature Amodini, produced and directed by Das Gupta, which had won him the best National film award in the regional language category for Bengali.
In the meeting, actor-director Aparna Sen described her father Chidananda Das Gupta as a person with ‘elegant thinking’ and a sense of humour which comes out as satire in his writings and his films.
Professor Saugata Roy – who made it clear that he was speaking as a family friend and not as Minister of State for Urban Development – said it was interesting that Das Gupta was never judgmental in his reviews or articles...
The meeting was followed by the screening of the 1994 Bangla feature Amodini, produced and directed by Das Gupta, which had won him the best National film award in the regional language category for Bengali.
In the meeting, actor-director Aparna Sen described her father Chidananda Das Gupta as a person with ‘elegant thinking’ and a sense of humour which comes out as satire in his writings and his films.
Professor Saugata Roy – who made it clear that he was speaking as a family friend and not as Minister of State for Urban Development – said it was interesting that Das Gupta was never judgmental in his reviews or articles...
- 7/7/2011
- by Bhushan Nagpal
- DearCinema.com
Eminent film critic, film historian and pioneer of film society movement in India, Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, passed away late Sunday night in Kolkata. He was suffering from acute broncho pneumonia and Parkinson’s disease according to reports.
Father of noted actor-director, Aparna Sen, Dasgupta started Calcutta Film Society along with Satyajit Ray in 1947.
Dasgupta is known for his writing on cinema, especially on the films of his friend Satyajit Ray. His book “The Cinema of Satyajit Ray” is considered a must read in order to understand the cinematic nuances of the master.
Apart from contributing to the British film journal “Sight and Sound” in 1957, with Ray, he started the “Indian Film Quarterly”. He also made seven films: The Stuff Of Steel (1969), The Dance of Shiva (1968), Portrait of a City (1961), Amodini (1994), Zaroorat Ki Purti (1979), Rakhto (1973) and Bilet Pherat (1972).
Father of noted actor-director, Aparna Sen, Dasgupta started Calcutta Film Society along with Satyajit Ray in 1947.
Dasgupta is known for his writing on cinema, especially on the films of his friend Satyajit Ray. His book “The Cinema of Satyajit Ray” is considered a must read in order to understand the cinematic nuances of the master.
Apart from contributing to the British film journal “Sight and Sound” in 1957, with Ray, he started the “Indian Film Quarterly”. He also made seven films: The Stuff Of Steel (1969), The Dance of Shiva (1968), Portrait of a City (1961), Amodini (1994), Zaroorat Ki Purti (1979), Rakhto (1973) and Bilet Pherat (1972).
- 5/24/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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