The 2014 South Asian International Film Festival kicked off Tuesday night with the multi-director movie (brainchild of film critic and director Sudhish Kamath) X – Past is Present: For a film with 11 directors (9 men and 2 women), it was quite a brofest, leading to many photo ops like this one, with the […]
Finding Fanny…Floundering
It’s been a while since I saw Homi Adajania’s debut film Being Cyrus, but in the flashes of it that come to mind I think of overstuffed, almost claustrophobic apartments of its eccentric Parsi characters with all assortment of unusual items sitting on the nightstands and around the house. In Finding Fanny, the director’s team […]
MetMuseum: They have an app for that
It’s Saturday morning and you’re in NYC (or very close by) and thinking about what you can do this weekend… if you have the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new app on your iPhone or iPad, you could take a look through there and see what’s on at the mothership on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street […]
Attenborough, Gandhi and Degrees of Separation
With the passing of director Sir Richard Attenborough last week, one couldn’t help but notice the prominence of his Oscar-winning film Gandhi at the top of lists of his most memorable work. (You can see Sir Ben Kingsley’s Oscar acceptance speech here.) Given the important subject of the film and the huge cast of Indian […]
Ugly: post-screening talkback with Anurag Kashyap & Rahul Bhatt
Following the opening night screening of Ugly at this year’s NYIFF, director Anurag Kashyap and lead actor Rahul Bhatt joined journalist and festival programmer Aseem Chhabra on stage at the NYU Skirball Center to discuss the film. Both the director and actor have been nominated for NYIFF awards. Here’s a summary of that talk: Aseem […]
Ugly
The 2014 NYIFF opened Monday night with director Anurag Kashap’s latest film, Ugly, a disturbing study of several lives unraveling simultaneously and revealing the ugliness inside of each. A 10-year-old girl vanishes from a busy street in Bombay. She’s been left alone in the car by her father, Rahul, a struggling actor, while he goes […]