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Month: July 2012

Trishna

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 filmiholicNew releases

Trishna opens with a quartet of well-to-do British Asian guys, all in their 20s and currently stoned to varying degrees, rating the places they’ve just visited on their India trip.  As their holidays end, they[…]

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Le Tamoul – for a change!

July 21, 2012July 21, 2012 filmiholicBooks

When recently directing a friend who was in Paris to the website for L’Harmattan bookstore there, and their amazing selection of Francophone African literature, and all variety of “international books,” I couldn’t help but notice[…]

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Signs of Political Animals in NYC

July 8, 2012 filmiholicIreland

Last week ads for the USA Network‘s summer mini-series Political Animals started appearing around Manhattan. The six-part series stars Sigourney Weaver and (Belfast-born)  Ciáran Hinds as the ersatz Hillary and Bill, here known as Elaine[…]

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Bol Bachchan

July 8, 2012 filmiholicNew releases

This sure is turning out to be a season of movies set in Rajasthan (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Trishna, and now Bol Bachchan).  Who can blame them – what with the havelis and camels[…]

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