In less than two hours, the closing night film of the 2012 New York Indian Film Festival will hit the screen at NYU’s Skirball Center, bringing Gangs of Wasseypur and its director, Anurag Kashyap, fresh from having been selected to be part of the Directors Quinzaine in Cannes to Greenwich Village. Great ending to the […]
Month: May 2012
NY Indian Film Festival: A Boon for Tamil Film Fans
If you love Tamil movies, but you don’t often get to enjoy them on a big screen in the NYC metro area, then today is your day. The Indo-American Arts Council‘s 2012 New York Indian Film Festival – which already ran Aadukalam and Azhagarsamy’s Horse yesterday – is showing quite a selection this afternoon. At […]
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
When the trailer for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel started appearing in Manhattan cinemas last autumn, I was struck by how many laughs it got and figured, given its golden cast, that it would be a success, but I was also curious to see how – a few years on since Slumdog Millionaire – another […]