Just a few pix from yesterday’s post-film Q&As of Gabriel Byrne with director and writer Jim Sheridan (after a screening of their In the Name of the Father) and afterward, with writer Enda Walsh (after a screening of Hunger, for which he wrote the screenplay). This is all part of the film festival at MoMA […]
Category: Festival
Irish film festival opens at MoMA
Starting tonight and continuing through June 3rd, the Museum of Modern Art here in aamchi NY is launching Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film, a festival curated by Ireland’s cultural ambassador and fellow New Yorker Gabriel Byrne, with the intention of examining how Irish identity has been presented on film. (If you caught […]
NYIFF 2011 Off & Running
So the annual Indo-American Arts Council New York Indian Film Festival has started with a bang and some bling and the participation of filmi royalty. Last night, Rishi Kapoor and his lovely wife Neetu Singh Kapoor walked the red carpet at the Paris theater for the opening film of this year’s festival Do Dooni Char. […]
CraicFest returns to NYC this week
Finally, the website for this weekend’s Irish film festival in NYC, the CraicFest 2011, is up for all to see. There are also musical performances in the evenings after the films have been screened. The Tribeca Cinemas again are home to the events. The big opener – White Irish Drinkers – which stars […]
MIAAC 2010 red carpet photos
Star-studded opening of the 10th Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council film festival. The non-desi photographers behind the velvet rope furiously scribbled the names the of the people gliding by them, while the rest of the pack gave them the lo-down on who was who. Tusshar Kapoor got out of his car one reporter said “He’s […]
UPDATED: Trio of Indian film fests in NY/NJ
It’s that time of the year again. Three Indian film festivals in the NY/NJ area overlap and bump into each other over the space of the next two and a half weeks. One the one hand, it’s a glorious excess of riches, with the likes of Anurag Kashyap and Mani Ratnam gracing us with their […]