Movie City Indie Archive for August, 2011
Teasing Michael Winterbottom’s TRISHNA
Starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed, with original songs by Amit Trivedi and an original score by Shigeru Umebayashi. Based on the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Produced by Melissa Parmenter.
Anderson Cooper Gets The Giggles Talking Scat About Gerard Depardieu
Trailering Tsui Hark’s FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (龙门飞甲)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKy2NbYlLU&feature=player_embedded
Reports the Reporter, “Imax said it will super-size the $35 million epic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate from China’s Bona Film Group, ahead of a Christmas release. Flying Swords comes from director Tsui Hark, with Jet Li in the lead.” [More press releasery at the link.]
Chris Marker’s London Riots short, OVERNIGHT (2’42”)
This Is London, with musical accompaniment. [Via Kosinski, YouTube]
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A choice quote from Variety: “Shammi Kapoor is said to be India’s answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America’s answer to Shammi Kapoor.” (Aamir Khan.) Asjad Nazir in The Guardian: “The dashing, debonair Indian actor… changed the face of Bollywood cinema with his first hit film, Tumsa Nahin Dekha (Never Seen Anyone Like You, 1957). The rock’n’roll-inspired movie turned the young actor into an overnight sensation, and he continued to incorporate elements of western culture and fashion in his subsequent films. By dancing in the big musical numbers, the hip-swinging Kapoor bucked the Bollywood trend of a stationary hero. His boisterous sensuality and confidence made him irresistible to male and female fans and he became arguably the first male pin-up of the Indian subcontinent, a sort of “Indian Elvis.” [More.]
RIP Robert Breer: “Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons” (1980)
Athens’ Protest Dog, Loukanikos (Sausage), Awaits The Crowds (1’26”)
In Syntagma Square.
Collect Yer DRAGON TATTOO Palm Cards
At the official site for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a slideshow of palm cards of each of the characters and the actors who play them: a sleek way to introduce the Swedish stuff for potential viewers who haven’t read the novels?
MOO & OINK: “Scream for Ribs!”
Moo & Oink grocers and wholesalers, A Chicago local television ad stalwart, faces financial crisis, may get butchered.
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