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FUTURE SHORTS – THE WORLD’S BIGGEST POP UP FILM FESTIVAL Now in Bengalooru

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Long Live Cinema_Future Shorts Poster BangaloreFuture Shorts at the moment is the largest short film network in the world. The event unites global audiences from across 55 countries in a quarterly celebration of creativity, culture and community. It made its entry into India last year and was met with tremendous acclaim. The short films displayed in the festival held in Delhi last year spoke volumes of the kind of creativity on display and the way its redefining the way cinema is made and perceived. Its making a comeback again this year and it promises to be bigger and better. The event is slated to be held at Bangalore this year on the 20th of May.

Future Shorts began in London in 2003 with the aim of bringing an alternative to traditional cinema, for those who already love the genre and those discovering its magic every day.

The description it carries on its webpage is – “Since 2003 we’ve built a new audience for film across the globe, developed a platform for filmmakers that allows millions of people worldwide to engage with their work. Working across exhibition, distribution and experiential events, Future Shorts is the product of 9 years of audience development, experimentation and of reacting to the demand for another way of experiencing film. Operating online, in live events and through commercial distribution, we believe strongly in the social experience of film; in cinema as a communicator and community that should not be restricted by geography, status, wealth or politics. Sister company Future Cinema has become world renowned for re-imagining the cinema-going experience and championing ‘Live Cinema’, with events such as Secret Cinema receiving international acclaim from audiences and critics alike.”

Programme Line Up
The programme line-up includes a Sundance winner, a Cannes select, a short by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella as well as an official selection at the Los Angeles and Annecy Animation Festival.

1. Bear/ Nash Edgerton/ 2011/Australia/ 11 minutes
Described as a black comedy without social commentary, Bear centers around the main character Jack to unfold his tangled relationship and examines whether he’s learned his lesson or not.
2. Quadrangle/ Amy Grappell/ 2010/ USA/ 20 minutes
An examination of a four-way affair, this documentary explores the story of two “conventional” couples who swap partners and live in a group marriage in the early 1970s.
3. Venus/ Tor Fruergaard/ 2012/ Demark/ 8 minutes
‘Venus’, a 7-minute claymation, is an erotic comedy about rediscovering one another and finding the spark where you least expect it An official selection at the Los Angeles and Annecy Animation Festival.
4. Mourir Auprès de Toi/ Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn/ 2011/ France/ 6 minutes
In Jonze’s Cannes selected tragicomic stop-motion animation a felt skeleton falls in love with a beautiful and sassy vixen.

5. The Arm/ Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos, Jessie Ennis/ 2012/ USA/ 9 minutes
Chance and Genevieve, start a texting relationship only to realise they were never in a relationship at all. At Sundance this year, “The Arm” was acknowledged with a Special Jury Award for Comedic Storytelling.

6. Love You More/ Sam Taylor Wood/ 2007/ United Kingdom/ 15 minutes
Inspired by the hit song ‘Love You More’ by the Buzzcocks, this short is the tale of two punk lovers, Georgia and Peter, in London, 1978. Tender and explorative, this short film directorial debut by Taylor-Wood was written by Oscar nominee Patrick Marber and produced by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella.

7. L’Homme Sans Tete (The Man Without a Head)/ Juan Solanas/ 2003/ France/ 18 minutes
The story of a head-less man who lives alone, in a room overlooking a vast industrial space. Visually astounding and technically accomplished, this animated short reveals love and happiness and one man’s pursuit for romance amidst life without a head.

8. Shorts From Bangalore – In addition, to the above, 2 indigenous films will also be showcased, so as to promote filmmakers from Bangalore.
Just that sort of a day by Abhay Kumar
The film won the 59th National Award 2012 in India for Best Narration.

The second film is Chapter Ashok by Prince Richfield

Event Details
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bengalooru, May 20th 2012.
4:30-5:15 pm: Live Music act covering OSTs, songs from films we all love
5:30-6:15 pm: Indigenous Films Screening
6:30-8:00 pm: Future Shorts Films Screening
Contact: Ahmed/Vijay (9986984878/9008877900)

Tickets
Tickets are priced from INR 250 to 350. The ticket also includes a welcome drink.
For tickets and additional details: http://www.facebook.com/FutureShortsIndia

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Alliance Française de Delhi cordially invites you to ‘Ciné Club April : Stranger than Paradise’

April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
From the Italian Neorealism to the Brazilian Cinema Novo or the French New Wave, film directors have often been interested by dealing with the stories of marginal characters. First perceived as a source of fascination and lyricism, marginality must also be considered as very relative: we are marginal in comparison to an institutionalized group at a certain moment, in a certain place and with reference to a social norm, moral or intellectual.
Because it can serve the identification with some people who are usually outlawed from society, cinema contributes to the evolution of social norm and barriers. Our selection of films will highlight theses stories of people who are usually pushed into the background.

Long Live Cinema_EldoradoELDORADO
Date: Friday, 13 April 2012, 5.30 & 7.30 pm
Bouli Lanners/ 2008/ 85 min
You are alive, and there is no cure for it, says a character of Beckett in Endgame, a quote that could be used to describe the flat landscapes of Belgium, the homeland of Bouli Lanners, where his film Eldorado takes place. Nevertheless, behind this depressive background, Eldorado is also both an irresistibly comic and a deeply touching movie. This ambiguous atmosphere is served by the surprising relationship between the two main characters: Yvan, a dealer of vintage cars, a surly guy with a heart of gold, meets the young Elie while he was burgling him. However, he doesn’t beat him. On the contrary, they become friends and Yvan accepts to bring him back to his parents
Long Live Cinema_LA TERRE DE LA FOLIELA TERRE DE LA FOLIE / LAND OF MADNESS
Date: Friday, 20 April 2012, 5.30 & 7.30 pm
Luc Moullet/ 2010/ 90 min
The great-grand-nephew of the great-grandfather of my great-great-grandmother one day had killed the mayor of the village, his woman and the rural policeman with a pick,, guilty of having moved his goat from ten yards. It provided me a good starting point. There were many others behaviors of the same type in the family”. Native of the Southern Alps, Luc Moullet noticed that cases of mental illness were particularly numerous in his region: murder, dismemberment, suicide, immolation among his family, friends and the various “criminal affairs” of the last 100 years. With his imperturbable seriousness and his irony, he takes note and studies the causes and the consequences of these local psychic phenomena. Moullet, the most burlesque director of the French New Wave, deals with macabre stories, so much unusual that they become comic. He explores the cases of murderous dementia in his place of origin and it isn’t sad.
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SCREENING: LOUISE MICHEL(French)by Gustave de Kervern and Benoit Delepine, Feb 13, Mumbai

February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Long Live Cinema_Louise MichelCity: Mumbai
Location: Alliance Française auditorium
Date: Mon, February 13 – 6:30pm

What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to … hire a hit man to liquidate the boss? (Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a stinky security specialist. .. Michel, who is busted, gladly accepts the deal but proves so inept that he sub-contracts the job to improbable novices. Moreover, as the factory was a mere branch of a multinational company, it is no bed of roses to find the one who actually made the decision to outsource its activities. But Louise will not give up so easily.)

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13 BCD | AN EXCLUSIVE GALLERY DEDICATED TO CINEMA

January 26, 2012 By 1 Comment

Long Live Cinema_Cine Darbar_Tokyo ExhibitionCine Darbaar and The Japan Foundation are launching an exclusive gallery in Delhi dedicated to cinema on 1st February, 2012.

The gallery to be called 13 BCD aims  to initiate curatorial practices in cinema.  It will be a space for young cinephiles to connect and engage in collaborative projects like exhibitions, screenings, interactive programmes etc. A boutique that welcomes cinephiles to discover, experience and develop an attitude for cinema.

About the 1st exhibition titled: Tokyo is dreaming

Long Live Cinema_Tokyo1Venue: 13 basement, Haus Khas Village
Dates: 1st Feb -15th Feb
Timings: Mon to Sat from 12 to 7 pm
A series of curated images and sound to experience Tokyo through cinema.  The exhibition will capture the Tokyo streets, Tokyo transit and Tokyo homes. This exhibition is a mean to look at how cities have been shot by several auteurs.

Curator’s note

It wasn’t very very long ago that I fell in love with cinema. It wasn’t very long ago that I missed my city in Cinema. It wasn’t long ago that I craved for spaces to experience cinema. It was just yesterday that Cine Darbaar happened. It was today that 13 BCD came about. It’s tomorrow that Tokyo is Dreaming.

Supriya Suri
Artistic Director
www.indianauteur.com

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CATCH HIM BEFORE THEY DO: ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S NORTH BY NORTHWEST screening this Thursday, January 19 at PVR Rare Film Club

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Long Live Cinema_PVR RARE FILM CLUB_North by NorthwestAlfred Hitchcock is known as the master of thriller and suspense in cinema. And North by Northwest (1959) is undoubtedly one of his best and most commercially successful works. The film has rating of 8.6 on IMDB with over 114,000 votes & RottenTomatoes.com has given it 100% rating. Both the film & its screenplay are used as case studies in cinema learning throughout the world. It is indeed a very rare combination of commercial feat, auteuristic & scholastic work.

It is the story of an innocent New York advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and his life takes an unexpected turn. Like all Hitchcock films, the thrill and suspense will keep you glued to your seats till the end.

Do not miss the opening credits of the film. North by Northwest is known to be the first feature film to make extended use of ‘kinetic typography’, a special type of animation technique in its opening credits. The credits fly in from off-screen and finally fade out into the film itself.

Hitchcock’s signature in his films was his cameo appearance. At the end of the opening credits, you will notice a man missing a bus, who is none other than the master himself.

The film is truly grand in that it opens with a murder in the United Nations building and closes with a chase sequence across Mount Rushmore in the United States.

Ernest Lehman who wrote the screenplay of this film wanted to write “the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures”. He won the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for North by Northwest in 1960.

North by Northwest was nominated for three Academy Awards for Film Editing (George Tomasini), Art Direction (William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy), and Original Screenplay (Ernest Lehman). But all these three Oscars went to Ben-Hur directed by William Wyler.

North by Northwest was recognized as the fourth best film in the thriller genre in America by the American Film Institute. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Don’t miss this masterpiece screening at the PVR Rare Film Club on Thursday, January 19th.

PVR Director’s Cut, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi: 7.30 p.m. | 10.30 p.m.
PVR Select Citywalk, Saket, New Delhi: 9.05 p.m.
PVR Ambience Mall, Gurgaon: 9.15 p.m

PVR Goregaon, Mumbai: 8.30 p.m
PVR Phoenix Mills, Mumbai: 8.50 p.m.

PVR Ahmedabad: 10.25 p.m

Tickets can be bought from the PVR Box Office and PVR Website.

The film will be screened at Chennai and Bengalooru on Thursday, Januray 26, 2012

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING: BANARAS ME with the presentation of the director of the documentary

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment


Long Live Cinema_Banaras Me_PosterVaranasi is one of the oldest and most sacred cities in the world; a city where still survives certain echo of the ancestral. Residence of Shiva, – creator and destroyer of all things – place where senses and liberation shake hands. In it hides the other city that we glimpse through the mist, smoke, and sand: Kashi, the city of the light. For a full year -in a cycle that repeats itself without rest- there is a succession of events and rhythms that cause drastic changes in the physiognomy of this microcosm of India. Voices, looks, music, the hands of men and rites to the Gods, indifference is prohibited in this city. Each has its own space and time. Everyone does its search.

BANARAS ME
Director: David Varela
Duration: 119 min
Genre: Documentary/2010

Screening Details:
Sunday 22nd January, at 4:30 pm.
Venue: Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi
48, Hanuman Road
Connaught Place
110 001 Nueva Delhi
India
Tel.: 91 11 4368 19 00
Fax: 91 11 4356 86 92
cenndel@cervantes.es

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