Raveena: Thin girls make life tough for women like me
by IANS
Raveena is not happy with stick-thin girls in films and says they have made life tough for women like her. ...  
01:15 PM, Mar 17, 2013

'Amour' wins Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Austere Austrian drama 'Amour' that tackles death and aging won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday. ...  
08:38 AM, Feb 25, 2013

Oscar foreign film nominees reveal movie magic A few old-school video cameras, a cloned apartment, a sea of digital sharks, and an actress who helped herself to craft services were just a few tricks that international filmmakers employed in their Oscar nominated films. ...  
11:32 AM, Feb 24, 2013

'Silver Linings' wins four honors at indie film awards Quirky comedy 'Silver Linings Playbook' dominated the Independent Spirit Awards on the eve of Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony, winning four prizes including for Best Feature. ...  
10:05 AM, Feb 24, 2013

Even though Ben Affleck fetched the Best Director award in almost all the award ceremonies this year, he will not feature in the nomination list of Best Director category at the 85th Academy Awards.Ang Lee won his first academy award for 'Brokeback Mountain' in 2005 and is being considered as a strong contender at this year's Oscars. Lee's visually spectacular 'Life Of Pi' wasn't an easy film to shoot. Based on a book by the same name, the mid-sea odyssey of survival and companionship has also been nominated in 'Best Film' actor. David O Rusell's 'Silver Lining Playbook' is the only light hearted film which has got a Oscar nod in several categories including 'Best Director', 'Best Film', 'Best Actor (Male) and 'Best Actor (Female)'.
06:32 PM, Feb 19, 2013

For her portrayal of a CIA agent who undertakes a decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, Jessica Chastain is the frontrunner for the best actress at Oscar. Known for being a character-actor, Jessica Chastain has nailed 'Zero Dark Thirty' with her performance. Jessica Chastain comes forth as a strong character in Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty' and she has already bagged the Golden Globes for the best actress. Her biggest contender at the Oscars is Jennifer Lawrence for her performance in 'Silver Linings Playbook'. The oldest Oscar best actress nominee Emmanuelle Riva, who will turn 86 on the Oscar night, has already won herself a BAFTA. And, the French actress seems a promising contender to take back the golden lady with her brilliant performance in 'Amour'. Emmanuelle plays Anne Laurent in the touching tale of an elderly couple whose love for each other is tested after she suffers two strokes.
05:01 PM, Feb 18, 2013

Of the nine films nominated in the Best Picture category, here is why you should watch some and give the others a pass. A favourite this awards season, Ben Affleck's 'Argo' is just the kind of movie that is needed in this day and age. Based on a true incident when six Americans were miraculously rescued by CIA from Iran during the peak of Iran hostage crisis, 'Argo' gives an amazing glimpse of a society that can work towards if everyone is willing to give it a shot. David O'Rusell's 'Silver Lining Playbook' seems like an unlikely choice in the Best Film nomination list. While other nominees are primarily drama, 'Silver Lining Playbook' is romantic-comedy. Many of the critics have panned the film and called it too superficial and frothy. Will it get an Oscar nod or not is something we will have to wait and watch but its lead actors- Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are being considered as strong contenders to clinch the trophy of Best Actress and Best Actor category respectively.Katheryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thrity' is based on how American troupes raided Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan and eventually killed the world's most dreaded terrorist. The war docu-drama is a very detailed film- something which is needed when one is making a film based on real life incident. The film is seen through the eyes of Maya (Jessica Chastain), a female CIA officer handling the case. It also gives out a powerful message of how a woman calls the shots in world full of men.
06:52 PM, Feb 15, 2013

Ben Affleck's 'Argo' wins best film at BAFTA Iran-hostage drama 'Argo' continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the British Academy Film Awards. ...  
08:57 AM, Feb 11, 2013

Karishma Kotak to star in a Salman Khan movie? Karishma made her debut as an actress with a Telugu film, 'Shankar Dada Zindabad' (2007) alongside Chiranjeevi. ...  
02:23 PM, Jan 16, 2013

85th Oscars: 'Amour' nominated for Best Foreign Film In the Foreign Language Film category, 'Amour' from Austria, 'Kon-Tiki' from Norway, 'No' from Chile, 'A Royal Affair' from Denmark and 'War Witch' from Canada got the Oscars nomination nods. ...  
09:48 PM, Jan 10, 2013

85th Oscars: Lee, Haneke in race for Best Director Michael Haneke (Amour), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Ang Lee (Life of Pi), Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) and David O Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) were among the directors nominated for the Best Director category in the 85th Academy Awards. ...  
09:26 PM, Jan 10, 2013

'Barfi' is out of the Oscars race Anurag Basu's 'Barfi', chronicling the tender romance of a hearing and speech impaired boy, is out of the Oscars race as the Academy announced the list of nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 85th Academy Awards. ...  
12:51 PM, Dec 22, 2012

The 10th Chennai International Film Festival's press meet was held at Hotel GRT Grand in Chennai lately. M Arun Kumar, Suhasini Manirathnam, Ramakrishnan, Nirupama Subramaniam, Poornima Bhagyaraj and others attended the event.The Chennai International Film Festival is organised by ICAF.It was started in the year 2003, since then the popularity of the film festival has grown up gradually, the participating films being from all over the world. The above picture is a still from french film 'Amour'.
04:05 PM, Dec 05, 2012

AP: 2 years on, rescued girl still trembles with fear Nellore: Boochodu is how seven-year-old Narthana remembers R Nagesh, the lover of her mother Nagachaitanya. Even two years after she was rescued from the clutches of her mother and Nagesh, who tortured the girl for unwittingly making their affair public, Narthana trembles whenever she hears Nageshs name. The mother and her lover were sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by the court on Tuesday. Narthana, who is put up at...  
01:56 PM, Aug 30, 2012

'After Lucia' wins Cannes sidebar prize Cannes: 'After Lucia' by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard. It was chosen Saturday from a slate of 20 films by a jury headed by British actor Tim Roth. Un Certain Regard focuses on new and emerging filmmakers. The jury gave second prize to French film 'Le Grand Soir' by Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, and a...  
11:27 AM, May 28, 2012

Michael Haneke's 'Amour' wins top prize at Cannes Cannes: The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, 'Amour.' The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons - 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant - as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health. Cannes jury member Jean Paul Gaultier praised...  
10:15 AM, May 28, 2012

65th Cannes Film Festival: The Palme d'Or contenders

Director John Hillcoat's 'Lawless', Austrian director Michael Haneke's 'Amour' and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills' are competing for the prestigious Palme D'Or this year. ...
09:50 AM, May 22, 2012

'The IPL Story...' effervescent and sizzling
by IANS
At a time when book stores are flooded with compendiums on the 2011 World Cup, an intrepid television reporter has come up with a sizzling story on the Indian Premier League (IPL). Sleaze sells and on TV it grips the viewer more as an instant trial is conducted, judgment pronounced and executed in a matter of an hour. If the same story is narrated in a racy style, it can...  
08:08 PM, Jan 31, 2011

Mom tortured girl for objecting to her affair Hyderabad: A young girl was locked up in a room, beaten up and branded with hot iron by her own mother. The reason: the girl objected to her alleged illicit relationship. She has been rescued and now wants to start her life afresh. Nagachaitanya along with her paramour Naresh locked up Nartana in a room, beating her, even branding her with hot iron. The girl had suffered severe infections on...  
11:48 AM, Sep 25, 2010