Cinema

The Hindu has an interesting article today on Metro Plus that features an interview with Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Toure.

 

 

For years now, we've had very less of quality films in Kannada, and here is one cinema that is good on quality, but never got to the theatres. Distributors here fancy films that have songs, dance and crazy fights which on most occasions merely are low quality mockery of Bollywood/Hollywood. Sadly, it is the song and dance films that bring in huge moolah for them as art films go untried.

A Kannada art film, "Mukhamukhi" is being screened today at Suchitra Film Society. Time: 10.30 AM. Entry is free. Be there this morning. :) More details on the event [:http://sampada.net/event/6074|here].

Recently, I was surprised to see the name "Darjeeling" on [:http://apple.com/trailers|Apple's Movie Trailers] page.

We were in a discussion today when an SMS informed us about [:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6921960.stm|Ingmar's death]. The discussion suddenly took the backstage and SMSes flowed in and out of mobile phones. A film student friend of mine wore a sorrow look on his face and while he tried to SMS the sad news to other friends, his hands were shaking.