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Archive for April, 2008

 But for an alternate history..At the National press club.(there are three parts and 2 Q & A Parts here please watch all three plus two) Obama’s rebuttal also linked is below
You see, Some can speak this language the question is : can those people become president?
 
BREAKING NEWS Huffington post reports : Obama de friends Rev Wright [...]

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 Claude Lelouch , the patron saint of French romance (Un Homme et un Femme, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen) does a master turn at the thriller in this gentle crafted sunbeam of frissions.
 A serial killer picks up a Parisienne party girl abandoned after an argument by her boyfriend. Ok, scratch that…The ghost of a French [...]

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 Tashan: Maa and the Mere guilt trip.
 
(and all you guys who think this is a remake of good bad and ugly are only partly right. it’s a reworking of Sivaji, Good bad and ugly, the producers and once upon a time in mexico)
 
We are like that only.
We are not good people but Indians come to [...]

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Dasavatharam

 Oscar Ravichandran produces, KS Ravikumar Directs, Kamal stars9It’s not clear in the trailer, he palys ten different charecters) , Camera: Ravivarman , Himmesh reshamayya music
The Trailer
 
 
 
 
 

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Paki rock.

It ’s time to ressurrect one of my group emails on pakistani rock music.
here we are…
 
This is a pakistani rock and roll tribute. The first piece is a Nusrat Peter Gabriel collaboration, but the others are all pure pakistani bands. Some , like junoon are well known super star bands. Others , like Strings (the [...]

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Chennai 600028
 
  The Seagull sez : This blog is for the people that actually watch films. the said people are, however allowed to read publicity material elsewhere, gaze at plastic wrappers featuring their favorite stars on dvd or othervice, go to dressing rooms and do stuff, go to their fundraisers/ parties/ develop business that may or not [...]

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The Tales of Hoffman : a screencap review.
 
Is a Self Indulgent 1950 Technicolor cine ballet based on the Jacques Offenbach opera about the three loves of Hoffman. The opera itself, never performed when Offenbach was alive, underwent transformations and was performed with and without the Giulietta act (for length considerations) at the opera comique, Paris [...]

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Satyagraha:

 Yes Yes, but would Gandhi be amused.
 
Satyagraha is a 1980 Phillip Glass opera in three acts commissioned by  the city of Rotterdam. The current production is in limited release(seven performances premiering Apr 11, 2008) at the Metropolitan opera house(Lincoln center, New York), is a co-production with the English national opera and stars tenor  Richard Croft and [...]

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I was originally attracted to the PFC website (www.passionforcinema.com) because I did a search for Vivek kumar’s name. Vivek is a sweetly earnest accountant from one of the big five consulting firms on my linked in contacts too, who posted on the Jaman web site, long and sweet articles about various things contemporary bollywood. He was trying to [...]

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