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After last month kicked off with Sight and Sound unveiling of their once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll, detailing the 100 films that made the cut that were led by Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, they’ve now unveiled the full critics’ top 250. While the discourse up until now has featured many wondering why certain directors were totally absent and why other films that previously made the top 100 were left out, more clarity has arrived with this update.

Check out some highlights we clocked below, the full list here, and return on March 2 when all ballots and comments will be unveiled.

The films closest to making the top 100 were Rio Bravo, The House Is Black, and Vagabond, which tied for #103. Four directors absent in the top 100––Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jacques Demy––have two films each in the top 250: The Tree of Life...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

30 Years of The Film Foundation

Equally impressive as his towering career is Martin Scorsese’s dedication to restoring previously lost classics and championing underseen gems with The Film Foundation. Now celebrating 30 years, they’ve been given the spotlight on The Criterion Channel, featuring a wealth of highlights as well as a conversation between Scorsese and Ari Aster. The lineup of essentials includes The Broken Butterfly (1919), Trouble in Paradise (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), L’Atalante (1934), The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Chase (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), The River (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Bigamist (1953), Ugetsu (1953), Senso (1954), The Big Country (1958), Shadows (1959), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Primary (1960), The Connection (1961), Salvatore Giuliano (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Once Upon a Time in the West...

When the Pingyao International Film Festival staged its improbable tribute to the “New Indian Cinema” of the 1960s and 1970s last month, its organizers—historian Ayesha Geeth Abbas, Deepti DCunha, and festival director Marco Müller—placed two films by Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1975) at the center of the tribute. Improbable, that is, because of the radicality of the non-Ghatak contents of the program; even Ghatak’s greatest defenders would concede that (at least with these films) he never quite pushed things as far as some of these filmmakers were able to, preferring instead to work within more popular contexts. Nestled among the more standard fare of Pyiff’s main program, the opaque and challenging delights of this twelve-film series benefited from comparison with other movies; when seen against the both the Chinese and international competition at the festival, it was perhaps inevitable that the life seemed to drain out of the new films,...

By Anand Singh

Sacrifice, a word which conjures images of martyrs, of heroic deeds, and great struggles. We all have dreams and yet, due to circumstances seen and unforeseen, they never materialise. Sometimes we give it up for those we love, giving and giving until we realise we have ceased to exist. When it is too late, we cry out, crushed, forgotten, like a horse that cannot work anymore. Released in 1960 and directed by Ritwik Ghatak, the film “Meghe Dhaka Tara” (The Cloud-Capped Star), shows this in a poignant and memorable manner.

The film revolves around a family of six, the parents and their four children. The father is a school teacher and the mother (played by Gita Dey) is a housewife. The eldest child, Shankar (played by Anil Chatterjee) is unemployed and aspires to be a singer. The second child, Nita (played by Supriya Choudhury) is...

The 12-title line-up includes classics from filmmakers such as Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Mani Kaul, Shyam Benegal and Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

This year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) is hosting a retrospective of Indian New Wave cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The 12-title line-up includes classics from filmmakers such as Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Mani Kaul, Shyam Benegal and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. The programme will kick off with two titles from Ghatak, who was considered the godfather of the Indian new wave and a mentor to other filmmakers (see full list of titles below).

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,...

What:

Screening of Feature and Non-Feature Films selected for the Indian Panorama section of the 44th International Film Festival of India, 2013.

When:

10th-18th February

Entry:

Free and open to all.

Venue:

Siri Fort Auditorium Complex,

Siri Fort

New Delhi

Screening Schedule:

About the event:

26 Feature Films and 16 Non-Feature Films in 16 languages will be screened.

Feature films selected in the Indian Panorama, 2013 which will be screened are:

Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi), Listen Amaya (Hindi), The Coffin Maker (English/Konkani), Meghe Dhaka Tara (Bengali), Omg Oh My God (Hindi), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (Hindi), Ajana Batas (Bengali), Celluloid (Malayalam), Artist (Malayalam), Ship Of Theseus (English/Hindi), Thangameengal (Tamil), Phoring (Bengali), Kanyaka Talkies (Malayalam), 101 Chodyangal (Malayalam), Kunjananthante Kada (Malayalam), Baga Beach (Konkani), Shutter (Malayalam), Jal (Hindi), Astu (Marathi), Sala Budha (Oriya), Satyanweshi (Bengali), Apur Panchali(Bengali), Tapaal (Marathi), Ko:yad (Mising), Fandry (Marathi) & Bharath Stores (Kannada).

The Non-Feature films which will be screened are:

Shepherds Of Paradise,...

Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies by K. R. Manoj will open the feature film category while Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi will open the non-feature category of Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2013.

Indian Panorama will screen 26 Feature films and 16 Non-Feature films.

The jury for Feature films, headed by filmmaker and editor B. Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries. Paan Singh Tomar by Tigmanshu Dhulia which won the Best Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has been selected by virtue of direct entry.

The Non-Feature films Jury, chaired by director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise directed by Raja Shabir Khan which won Best Non – Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has also been selected by virtue of direct entry.

Complete list:

101 Chodyangal by Sidhartha Siva

Ajana Batas by Anjan Das...

The 24th edition of the biennial Europalia International Arts Festival in Europe will be dedicated to India to celebrate the centenary year of Indian cinema.

The festival will be held in several cities of Belgium and The Netherlands including Brussels, Antwerpen and Den Haag from October 4, 2013 – January 26, 2014.

Five of Kashyap’s films will be screened under the Anurag Kashyap Focus – Cinematek section: Ugly (2013), Black Friday (2004), Dev D (2009), Gulal (2009) and Gangs of Wasseypur I and II (2012). Besides, three films recommended by Kashyap will also be screened at the festival: Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghorey Da Daan, Hansal Mehta’s Shahid and Satish Manwar’s Gabhricha Paus.

Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar and Jalsaghar will be presented as part of the Satyajit Ray Retrospective. Guru Dutt Retrospective will screen his films Baazi, Jaal, Baaz, Aar Paar, Mr. And Mrs. 55, Pyaasa, Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam and Kagaz Ke Phool.

Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl...

A still from Pather Panchali

The 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival will be held from September 24 – 29, 2013 in Mumbai.

The festival will feature films under seven sections: World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Indian Premieres, Jagran Shorts, T20 of Indian Cinema, Cinema of the Sellers and Films by Debut Directors.

The festival will open with Israeli film Water directed by Yael Perlov, NirSa’ar & Maya Sarfaty, YonaRozenkier, Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Barghouti, Pini Tavger & Tal Haring under the World Panorama section.

Other films in the section are Kim Yong-Hwa’s 200 Pounds Beauty, Esteban Larrain’s The Passion of Michelangelo and Sophie Blondy’s Morning Star.

Indian Showcase is a competitive section for feature films. Films like Sanjay Jadhav’s Duniyadari, Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam, Gajendra Ahire’s Touring Talkies, Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistan, Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish and Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus will compete in this section.

Jagran Classic...

The upcoming Ladakh International Film Festival (Liff) will host a Retrospective on poet, lyricist and director Gulzar curated by filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj. The Retrospective will screen Mere Apne, Achanak, Ijazat, Khushboo, Angoor and Machis.

The festival will held in Leh, Ladakh from July 5-7, 2013. It will be inaugurated by Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and I&B Minister of India Manish Tiwari will be the Chief Guest for the closing ceremony.

Directorate of Film Festivals has curated a special section of women oriented films made in India. This section will screen Diamond Queen by Homi Wadia, Meghe Dhaka Tara by Ritwik Ghatak, Mirch Masala by Ketan Mehta, Dasi by B. Narsing Rao, Dahan by Rituparno Ghosh, Chandani Bar by Madhur Bhandarkar, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal by Anant Mahadevan and Byari by Suveeran.

The green carpet premiere at Liff 2013 will be Teri Mc Luhan’s documentary Frontier Gandhi, on the forgotten freedom fighter,...

In 1960, Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak rocked the international film scene with his stark melodrama, Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star). That film, along with the works of Satyajit Ray, put Calcutta on the art-film map, and continues to resonate with film audiences worldwide 50 years later. Such is that resonance that a new film with the same title approaches the earlier one with a biographical slant, looking into not only its making, but also the circumstances surrounding its production and the state of Ritwik Ghatak as a human being tormented by his own demons. The new film stars Saswata Chatterjee (breakout star of Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani as the assassin Bob Biswas) as Ghatak, and his performance even in these few minutes of footage is...

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Mumbai, May 8: David Dhawan is back with “Chashme Baddor”! He has spent almost three decades in this Hindi film industry, and David says it is only on himself he can rely on when it comes to the success or failure ratio of the films. Born in Agartala, but brought up in Kanpur, David’s real name is Rajendra. He joined Ftii to pursue a career in acting initially.

Then he changed his stream and joined editing course. It was Ritwik Ghatak’s Bengali film “Meghe Dhaka Tara” which made David ambitious of being a film maker himself. Soon he came to Mumbai to follow his dreams. It was Sanjay Dutt who gave him his first break as a director,.

A still from Gulabi Gang

Gulabi Gang, Gangs of Wasseypur I and II, Celluloid Man, Ship of Theseus, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Guru of Silence, With You Without You and 21 Chitrakoot have been selected to screen at the 37th Hong Kong International Film festival across various sections. The festival begins on March 17 with Ip Man – The Final Fight, the latest action film from local cult icon and veteran director in Hong Kong, Herman Yau.

Among the Indian films, Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang will compete in the Documentary section with the likes of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Ikeya Kaoru’s Roots, Delphine Lanson’s Father’s Birth, Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Christian Rosta and Claus Strigel’s Redemption Impossible.

The documentary that was named Best Film in Muhr Asia-Africa documentary section at Dubai International Film Festival 2012, traces a group of...

Still from Meghe Dhaka Tara

A digitally restored version of Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara or The Cloud Capped Star will be screened at the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival in the Forever Classics. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah are the other classics in the line up. A total of eight restored films will be screened in this section, four names have been announced so far.

“The Cloud Capped Star (1960) tells the moving tale of a woman’s sacrifice for her family. Living in post-colonial Calcutta after the partition of Bengal left families exiled outside their ancestral homes, an eldest daughter must navigate the demands of her family while suppressing her own desires,” reads the synopsis of the film on the festival website.

The festival will be held from 17 March – 2 April, 2013 and it’s full programme...

Below you will find our total coverage of the 2012 Toronto International Film festival, including previews, reviews, and the festival-spanning dialog between our two main critics at Tiff. A few more pieces may be added as they come in.

Wavelengths (P)Reviews

by Michael Sicinski

Part One - The Shorts

Part Two - The Features

Correspondences

between Fernando F. Croce and Daniel Kasman

#1

Fernando F. Croce on Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Michael Haneke's Amour, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers

#2

Daniel Kasman on Wang Bing's Three Sisters, Christian Petzold's Barbara, Ying Liang's When Night Falls, Ernie Gehr's Departure and Auto-Collider Xv

#3

Fernando F. Croce on Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux, Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air, Bernardo Bertolucci's Me and You, Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

#4

Daniel Kasman on Brian De Palma's Passion, Heinz Emigholz's Perret in France and Algeria, Nathaniel Dorsky...

Dear Danny,

Rushing from screen to screen with Tiff’s closing weekend just around the corner, that mix of excitement and exhaustion (a condition Manny Farber once dubbed “Festivalitis”) does indeed become more and more pronounced. Fortunately, the ratio of excitement has for me remained high even when my eyes occasionally grow heavy, thanks largely to alternately stirring and maddening films like Terrence Malick’s latest vision of Eden lost.

Malick’s To the Wonder feels curiously anchorless, which is especially weird as its story aims for the tightest focus on romantic couples since the days of Borzage. “Love makes us one,” go the murmurs on the characteristically dense soundscape as the camera swirls and swoons with the characters’ rush of infatuation, following them from Mont St. Michel to Oklahoma. The vertiginous impressionism accelerates, but the lack of character detailing—the lovers played by Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko become abstractions,...

From focusing on Mumbai in the festival’s ‘City to City’ programme to holding panel discussions on Bollywood and the Indian indies, Toronto International Film Festival will be a grand celebration of Indian cinema this year. From Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara to Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish, the festival promises something for everyone. Known for his fondness for Mumbai and Indian films, Tiff’s artistic director Cameron Bailey talks about the city, its emerging new-cinema as well as Bollywood:

What excites you about Mumbai as a city and the films that emerge out of it?

Mumbai has more movie-mad people than anywhere in the world. From the time I land at the airport to the time I leave, I encounter countless people who want to talk about their favourite films, their favourite stars and the gossip around both. People love movies in Mumbai, so on that level it feels like home.

Tiff Industry will host a panel discussion on ‘Independent Indian Cinema’ during the 37th Toronto International Film Festival.

The panel will comprise Manjeet Singh (Mumbai Cha Raja), Vasan Bala (Peddlers), Ashim Ahluwalia (Miss Lovely) and Guneet Monga (producer–Peddlers, Monsoon Shootout, Gangs of Wasseypur).

This panel will be moderated by Patrick Frater of Film Business Asia.

Guneet Monga will be on another panel ‘Funding the Source: The New Age of Crowdfunding’ along with

Elisabeth Holm — director, Film Program, Kickstarter, Lynette Howell — producer, The Place Beyond the Pines. This panel will be moderated by Scott Roxborough of The Hollywood Reporter.

Also see:

Toronto 2012 announces 10 Indian films of Mumbai City to City program

Ritwik Ghatak’s “Meghe Dhaka Tara” to screen at Toronto 2012

Girish Kasaravalli’s “The Tortoise” to screen at Toronto 2012

Midnight’s Children, English Vinglish to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2012...

Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud Capped Star) directed by Ritwik Ghatak in 1960 will be screened in Tiff Cinematheque programme at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012.

“A young woman desperately struggles to keep her family out of poverty in this fiercely moving masterpiece by the great, perennially under-recognized Indian auteur Ritwik Ghatak,” is the synopsis on the festival’s website.

The other films to screen in this section are: The Bitter Ash by Larry Kent, Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock, Loin du Viêtnam by Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais; Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini and Tess by Roman Polanski.

Also see, Toronto 2012 announces 10 Indian films of Mumbai City to City Program.

Still drifting with the time machine of Il Cinema Ritrovato, I can profoundly feel the endlessness of the medium. Though this is supposedly a journey through the past, as Henri Langlois points out, it also indicates our very future. In this regard, at least to me, Raoul Walsh is the future and cinephilia is nothing but shaping our future by returning to the rich heritage of the moving images.

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Raoul Walsh’s anti-vengeance Distant Drums (1951), starring Gary Cooper and set in Florida in 1840, is about a journey of professional soldiers and ordinary people through the dangerous Everglades, only to discover at the end that the promised land they are searching for is burnt down to the ground. As one can expect from a Walsh film, they stay on the land and fight, man-to-man. There is no room for self-pity or sentimentalism, and the journey itself becomes a metaphor for self-discovery...

Hallways adorned with the original posters of timeless classics. Auditoriums across the sprawling campus at Whistling Woods International (Wwi) playing Indian cinema’s gems such as Kabhi Kabhie, Bimay Roy’s Devdas, Sholay, Kanoon, Anand, Magadheera, Diamond Queen, Sahib bibi aur ghulam, Kalicharan, Kagaz ke phool, Charulata, Arth, Awaara, Sholay, Umrao Jaan, Charulata, Guide, Salaam Bombay, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Bandini, Sujata and 36 Chowringhee Lane, Amar Akbar Anthony, Mother India, Pushpak among many others. Workshops, seminars, panel discussions on subjects ranging from film-making, script writing, Marketing and distribution, dance, poetry, music, still photography, cinematography, as well as colourisation of black-and-white films. This and a lot more doses of entertainment, learning and fun concluded the 3-day celebration of the centenary of Indian Cinema organized by students of maverick filmmaker Subhash Ghai’s reputed film school ‘Whistling Woods International”

The inaugural ceremony began on a high note with A. R. Rahman, Gluzar, Saroj Khan,...

Ritwik Ghatak

The Kolkata International Film Festival will pay a special tribute to filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in its 17th edition.

Ghatak’s 1961 film Komal Gandhar-- that deals with the aftermath of partition of India in 1947 will be screened as a tribute. Komal Gandhar is part of a trilogy based in Kolkata along with Meghe Dhaka Tara and Subarnarekha, Ghatak’s well-known films.

Ghatak would have been 86 on November 4. One of the greatest filmmakers of India, Ghatak directed 8 feature films in his lifetime. Ajantrik was his first commercial release in 1958. He taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii).

bidaya wa nihaya (1961)

The 5th Abu Dhabi International Film Festival is paying tribute to the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Apart from writing novels, Mahfouz collaborated with major Egyptian directors such as Youssef Chahine, Hassan Al Imam and Salah Abu Seif on screenplays. This year marks the birth centenary of the prolific author, who is often regarded as one of the first contemporary Arabic writers.

Salah Abu Seif, the legendary Egyptian director adapted quite a few of Mahfouz’s novels and short stories, ‘Bidaya wa Nihaya’ (The beginning and the end) being the first of this collaboration.

Salah, who is widely regarded as the father of Egyptian realist cinema was a prolific director who made more than forty films which are still very popular. Abu Dhabi Film Festival screened a restored version of ‘Bidaya wa Nihaya’ (The Beginning and the end) with new subtitles.

Release Date: Sept. 27, 2011

Price: DVD $29.95

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Supriya Choudhury dreams of a sweeter life in The Cloud-Capped Star.

Thanks goes out to Facets for bringing the acclaimed 1960 Indian drama The Cloud-Capped Star, about a refugee family barely surviving on the outskirts of Calcutta, to DVD in the U.S. This release marks the foreign film’s U.S. home entertainment debut .

The movie is written and directed by Ritwik Ghataka, who, alongside Satyajit Ray of The Music Room fame, is considered to be one of the great filmmakers of the Indian New Wave.

Like Ghataka, the family in The Cloud Capped Star is a victim of Partition, the legal separation of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. Eldest daughter Nita (Supriya Choudhury) struggles as the family breadwinner, though she longs to marry a...

A still from Aag

India has much to look forward to, at the 64th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival that begins on Wednesday, July 3, 2011. The festival has lined up quite an eclectic and exciting mix of Indian films; from the masters Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak to the contemporary Umesh Kulkarni and Vikramaditya Motwane.

Locarno Open Doors, an initiative that focuses on a region where independent cinema is in developmental stage every year has its eyes set firmly on India in the 2012 edition.

A still from Udaan

Open Doors screening will present thirteen “Indian classics” which include Raj Kapoor’s Aag, Jahnu Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (The Yellow Birds), Girish Kasaravalli’s Kanasembo Kudureyaneri (Riding the Stallion of a Dream), Shyam Benegal’s Manthan, Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Aparna Sen’s Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar, Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Nizalkkuthu...

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer

The Open Doors screening at Locarno International Film Festival 2011 will present thirteen “Indian classics” and a retrospective of Satyajit Ray, through the restored copies of his work.

Locarno Open Doors, an initiative that focuses on a different region every year—is focused on India. These screenings are open to the public.

Open Doors seeks to highlight films and filmmakers from countries in the South and East where independent cinema is still developing.

Indian classics

Aag by Raj Kapoor – India – 1948 – 138 min

Halodia Choraye Baodhan (The Yellow Birds) by Khai Jahnu Barua – India – 1987 – 120 min

Kanasembo Kudureyaneri (Riding the Stallion of a Dream) by Girish Kasaravalli – India – 2010 – 110 min

Manthan (The Churning) by Shyam Benegal – India – 1976 – 134 min

Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Clapped Star) by Ritwik Ghatak – India – 1960 – 126 min

Mr. And Mrs. Iyer by Aparna Sen – India – 2002 – 123 min

Neecha Nagar (Lowly City) by Chetan Anand – India – 1946 – 122 min

Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill) by...

Writer, director & producer: Amole Gupte, Cinematography: Amol Gole, Editing: Deepa Bhatia, Actors: Partho, Amole Gupte, Divya Dutta

Amole Gupte is an ambitious filmmaker and he makes no bones about it. To that effect, the beginning of the film is noteworthy. Gupte makes a reference to Indian cinema classics like Damle and Fattelal’s Sant Tukaram and Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara before claiming that he has attempted to enter the same league of Indian masters with Stanley Ka Dabba, a 100 years later!

The film begins with a beautiful animation by Gitanjali Rao, the same filmmaker whose animation films will screen in Cannes Critics Week and Cannes Film Market this year. Beauty and innocence run innately through the film, emerging from the children who feature in Stanley Ka Dabba. To extract such natural performances from children is an achievement on the part of the filmmaker. Or should they be called performances at all,...

Kolkata, Nov 14 – The rigours of partition and its effects on modern-day women are the central issues in the documentary ‘Beyond Borders’ that also commemorates 50 years of Ritwik Ghatak’s masterpiece ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’.

Made by journalist-turned-filmmaker Sharmila Maity, the 48-minute documentary captures the challenges before the 21st century woman only to conclude that modern-day eves are not insulated from the evils of partition.

‘My film is a docu-fiction about partition and its effect on the female.

Mumbai, Sep 3 – Legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ completes 50 years this year. Sadly, despite critics globally considering it to be one of a handful of most important films from India, the excitement is not palpable.

‘The only retrospective of the film happened in Lincoln Centre in New York and another screening in Nandan in Kolkata,’ Ritaban Ghatak, Ritwik’s son who is a filmmaker himself, told Ians.

Many filmmakers and scholars say the haunting existential cry of the Bengali film’s.

Prabhat Chitra Mandal is organizing a film festival of contemporary Romanian films in Mumbai, in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies in India (Ffsi).

The Rest Is Silence (2008) directed by Nae Caranfil will be screened on 23rd August, Monday. On 26th August, Thursday, The Survivor directed by Serqiu Nicolaesca will be screened. Both these screenings will take place at 6:30 pm.

On 30th August, Monday, two films will be shown. Crossing Dates (2008) directed by AnCa Damien will be screened at 6:30 pm while The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) directed by Radu Muntean at 8.10pm. Rangswar at the fourth floor of Chavan Centre will be the venue for all screenings.

This month onwards, Prabhat Chitra Mandal will also screen a regional film at Dadar Matunga Cultural Centre. The first film is this series is ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ by Ritwik Ghatak which will be screened at 6:30 pm on 17th August.

A three-day Ritwik Ghatak film festival here is showing the works of one of the titans of Indian cinema who was hurt by the 1947 India-Pakistan partition and returned to make a film when Bangladesh became free. Ghatak was born in Dhaka and lived for several years in this city before moving to Kolkata. The festival, which began on Thursday, is showing eight full-length films by Ghatak - Nagarik, Ajantrik, Bari Theke Paliye, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Komal Gandhar, Subarnarekha, Titash Ekti Nadir Naam and Jukti Takko Aar Gappo. The loss of his home in East Bengal had ...

A three-day Ritwik Ghatak film festival here is showing the works of one of the titans of Indian cinema who was hurt by the 1947 India-Pakistan partition and returned to make a film when Bangladesh became free.Ghatak was born in Dhaka and lived for several years in this city before moving to Kolkata.The festival, which began Thursday, is showing eight full-length films by Ghatak - 'Nagarik', 'Ajantrik', 'Bari Theke Paliye', 'Meghe Dhaka Tara', 'Komal Gandhar', 'Subarnarekha', 'Titash Ekti Nadir Naam' and 'Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'.The loss of his home in East Bengal had a deep impact on Ghatak and his cinema, participants at a discussion noted.'Ghatak's films are now celebrated in India and beyond. His stature among Bengali film directors is comparable to that of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. Nevertheless, he is rarely remembered ceremonially in Bangladesh,...

Over 1.9 million Indians voted for the country’s 20 best films ever made. Surprisingly, the top three were all classics from Bengali cinema. Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara was No. 1, followed by Satyajit Ray’s Charulata and Pather Panchali. The idea was for people to select the best of Indian cinema, from the website www.t20ofindiancinema.com. Voters were allowed to add the names of films that did not feature on the list. As a promotional event for the recently concluded 40th International Film Festival of India, the Entertainment Society of Goa launched the ‘T20 of Indian Cinema’ contest.An eclectic mix ...

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