Filmmaker Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over his movie The Apprentice, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night to an eight-minute standing ovation.
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said Monday morning in France, drawing laughs from the crowd at the first press conference for The Apprentice.
The director acknowledged Trump’s likely assumptions around the movie, saying, “If I was him, I would be sitting in New Jersey, Florida or wherever he is now — or New York — and I would be thinking, ‘Oh, this crazy Iranian guy and some, like, liberal c—- in Cannes, they gathered and they did this movie and it’s fucked up.'”
“But I don’t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike,” Abbasi added,...
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said Monday morning in France, drawing laughs from the crowd at the first press conference for The Apprentice.
The director acknowledged Trump’s likely assumptions around the movie, saying, “If I was him, I would be sitting in New Jersey, Florida or wherever he is now — or New York — and I would be thinking, ‘Oh, this crazy Iranian guy and some, like, liberal c—- in Cannes, they gathered and they did this movie and it’s fucked up.'”
“But I don’t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike,” Abbasi added,...
- 5/21/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The Apprentice” director Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over the movie, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday night.
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said. He even offered to meet with Trump and screen the movie for him, saying, “I don’t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike.”
Abbasi continued, “I don’t necessarily think he would like it. I think he would be surprised, you know? And like I’ve said before, I would offer to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards, if that’s interesting to anyone at the Trump campaign.”
Trump’s 2024 campaign put out a lengthy statement Monday night calling the film “garbage” and “pure fiction.
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said. He even offered to meet with Trump and screen the movie for him, saying, “I don’t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike.”
Abbasi continued, “I don’t necessarily think he would like it. I think he would be surprised, you know? And like I’ve said before, I would offer to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards, if that’s interesting to anyone at the Trump campaign.”
Trump’s 2024 campaign put out a lengthy statement Monday night calling the film “garbage” and “pure fiction.
- 5/21/2024
- by Ellise Shafer and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Del director de ‘Corpus Christi’ y el guionista de ‘El Padre’.
Según The Hollywood Reporter, August Diehl y Andrea Riseborough protagonizarán “The Noise of Time”, del director Jan Komasa (“Corpus Christi”) y el guionista Christopher Hampton (“El Padre”).
Basada en el libro homónimo de Julian Barnes, la película es un drama sobre la vida del compositor ruso Dimitri Shostakovich y su esposa Nina. La película recorrerá la trayectoria de la vida y la carrera de Shostakóvich, comenzando en 1936, cuando el compositor de 30 años se enfrenta por primera vez a la ira de Stalin después de que una de sus óperas sea condenada como contrarrevolucionaria. Escapa a la ejecución, pero durante décadas Shostakovich se ve obligado a ser un representante cultural del Estado soviético, y lucha por mantener la integridad de su música.
El proyecto se presentará a los compradores en el mercado cinematográfico de Cannes esta semana.
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Según The Hollywood Reporter, August Diehl y Andrea Riseborough protagonizarán “The Noise of Time”, del director Jan Komasa (“Corpus Christi”) y el guionista Christopher Hampton (“El Padre”).
Basada en el libro homónimo de Julian Barnes, la película es un drama sobre la vida del compositor ruso Dimitri Shostakovich y su esposa Nina. La película recorrerá la trayectoria de la vida y la carrera de Shostakóvich, comenzando en 1936, cuando el compositor de 30 años se enfrenta por primera vez a la ira de Stalin después de que una de sus óperas sea condenada como contrarrevolucionaria. Escapa a la ejecución, pero durante décadas Shostakovich se ve obligado a ser un representante cultural del Estado soviético, y lucha por mantener la integridad de su música.
El proyecto se presentará a los compradores en el mercado cinematográfico de Cannes esta semana.
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- 5/14/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
German star August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, A Hidden Life) and Oscar-nominated actress Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, To Leslie) have signed on to star in The Noise of Time, a new drama about the life of Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich and his wife Nina, adapted from Julian Barnes’ book of the same name.
Two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (The Father, Dangerous Liaisons) is adapting Barnes’ novel for the screen, with Polish director Jan Komasa (the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi) attached to direct.
The film will trace the trajectory of Shostakovich’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when the 30-year-old composer first faced Stalin’s wrath after one of his operas is condemned as counter-revolutionary. He escapes execution but for decades Shostakovich is forced to be a cultural representative of the Soviet state, and struggles to maintain the integrity of his music.
Beta Cinema is handling world sales on the film and will be...
Two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (The Father, Dangerous Liaisons) is adapting Barnes’ novel for the screen, with Polish director Jan Komasa (the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi) attached to direct.
The film will trace the trajectory of Shostakovich’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when the 30-year-old composer first faced Stalin’s wrath after one of his operas is condemned as counter-revolutionary. He escapes execution but for decades Shostakovich is forced to be a cultural representative of the Soviet state, and struggles to maintain the integrity of his music.
Beta Cinema is handling world sales on the film and will be...
- 5/14/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Beta Cinema is launching pre-sales at Cannes on a big-screen version of Julian Barnes’ novel The Noise Of Time that is being adapted by two- time Academy Award winner Christopher Hampton and will star August Diehl and Andrea Riseborough.
Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa, who was Oscar nominated for his 2019 feature Corpus Christi, is lined up to direct the fictionalised account of the life of composer Dimitri Shostakovich in Stalinist Russia.
Diehl will star as Shostakovich, while Riseborough will play his wife Nita, Shostakovich’s wife and intellectual equal.
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career,...
Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa, who was Oscar nominated for his 2019 feature Corpus Christi, is lined up to direct the fictionalised account of the life of composer Dimitri Shostakovich in Stalinist Russia.
Diehl will star as Shostakovich, while Riseborough will play his wife Nita, Shostakovich’s wife and intellectual equal.
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career,...
- 5/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Even before the final moments of No Time to Die made abundantly clear that a James Bond of the Daniel Craig variety would not return, people began wondering about the identity of the next 007. Eon Productions has not yet answered that question, despite rumors that Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been offered the part. Whoever ends up getting the honor to be the face of a new era of Bond, expectations are very high.
It’s a time honored tradition, one that goes all the way back before the first Eon Bond movie Dr. No released in 1962. While that movie, and especially its two follow-ups From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), established Sean Connery as the Bond by which every other actor is now judged, the character’s creator, the novelist Ian Fleming, had something different in mind for his super spy. In fact, Fleming didn’t want Connery at all.
It’s a time honored tradition, one that goes all the way back before the first Eon Bond movie Dr. No released in 1962. While that movie, and especially its two follow-ups From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), established Sean Connery as the Bond by which every other actor is now judged, the character’s creator, the novelist Ian Fleming, had something different in mind for his super spy. In fact, Fleming didn’t want Connery at all.
- 4/9/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
One of Frida Kahlo’s paintings featured in the documentary Frida. © 2024 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. 5 de Mayo No. 20, col. Centro, alc. Cuauhtémoc, c.p. 06000, Mexico City. Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video
Frida Kahlo remains endlessly intriguing, in part because the Mexican artist’s colorful paintings remain striking, mysterious and even slightly disturbing and partly because of her bold, dramatic, sometimes tragic life. The artist has been the subject of several films, both narrative and documentary, and Kahlo has been played beautifully by actresses Salma Hayek and Ofelia Medina among others. But in director/writer Carla Gutierrez’s new biographical documentary Frida, Frida Kahlo plays herself.
Gutierrez’s Frida brings fresh insights into Frida Kahlo’s life and work, by putting that life into her own words for the first time, words exclusively drawn from her letters, interviews and her illustrated diary. We also hear...
Frida Kahlo remains endlessly intriguing, in part because the Mexican artist’s colorful paintings remain striking, mysterious and even slightly disturbing and partly because of her bold, dramatic, sometimes tragic life. The artist has been the subject of several films, both narrative and documentary, and Kahlo has been played beautifully by actresses Salma Hayek and Ofelia Medina among others. But in director/writer Carla Gutierrez’s new biographical documentary Frida, Frida Kahlo plays herself.
Gutierrez’s Frida brings fresh insights into Frida Kahlo’s life and work, by putting that life into her own words for the first time, words exclusively drawn from her letters, interviews and her illustrated diary. We also hear...
- 3/15/2024
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
And the award for good timing goes to Netflix. In the wake of Oppenheimer’s inevitable Oscar coronation Sunday night, a celebration of a movie about the tormented father of the atomic bomb and the world he helped create, the mega-streamer has dropped Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, which includes an extensive account of the events leading up to the Manhattan Project, the atomic testing at Los Alamos, the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the arms race that defined the second half of the Twentieth Century.
- 3/12/2024
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
John Oliver took a subtle swipe at Deadline’s coverage of Last Week Tonight in the latest episode of his HBO show.
The British comedian mocked this very publication in a segment about medicine, doctors and state medical boards.
We were the latest television target after Oliver slammed Dancing with the Stars in a segment about North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson, who compared it to Stalin’s showtrials.
Deadline regularly covers Oliver’s salvos on a Sunday and we found ourselves in a somewhat meta situation, recapping his jolly jab at us. It was not unlike our coverage of Hasan Minhaj’s speech at the Independent Spirit Awards, where he said that we have the “web layout of a Craigslist ad” but admitted this site “governs our lives”.
The Deadline reference came after a clip from Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star (the second ding at Disney given that...
The British comedian mocked this very publication in a segment about medicine, doctors and state medical boards.
We were the latest television target after Oliver slammed Dancing with the Stars in a segment about North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson, who compared it to Stalin’s showtrials.
Deadline regularly covers Oliver’s salvos on a Sunday and we found ourselves in a somewhat meta situation, recapping his jolly jab at us. It was not unlike our coverage of Hasan Minhaj’s speech at the Independent Spirit Awards, where he said that we have the “web layout of a Craigslist ad” but admitted this site “governs our lives”.
The Deadline reference came after a clip from Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star (the second ding at Disney given that...
- 3/11/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tucker Carlson’s just-released interview with Vladimir Putin shows the former Fox News host has left shameless behind for pure sycophancy.
It would be one thing if the much-hyped sit down from the Kremlin was merely fawning, but instead Carlson abdicated any sense of being a significant participant in the interview to let the internationally-scorned Russian president deliver what is for all practical purposes a stump speech. On the handful of occasions when Carlson actually did try to get a word or a question in, Putin knocks him down faster than a shot of vodka at a wedding banquet.
Name-dropping Stalin, Dostoyevsky, the slow fall of Roman Empire, and “how Russian people think more about the eternal,” Putin rambled on and on for much of the interview with little interjection or fact checking from the bemused-looking Carlson. In fact, for all Carlson’s incorrect claims that American media aren’t...
It would be one thing if the much-hyped sit down from the Kremlin was merely fawning, but instead Carlson abdicated any sense of being a significant participant in the interview to let the internationally-scorned Russian president deliver what is for all practical purposes a stump speech. On the handful of occasions when Carlson actually did try to get a word or a question in, Putin knocks him down faster than a shot of vodka at a wedding banquet.
Name-dropping Stalin, Dostoyevsky, the slow fall of Roman Empire, and “how Russian people think more about the eternal,” Putin rambled on and on for much of the interview with little interjection or fact checking from the bemused-looking Carlson. In fact, for all Carlson’s incorrect claims that American media aren’t...
- 2/9/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Dutch Estonian novelist Sana Valiulina investigates the life of her father who was compelled to betray Stalin’s Soviet Union by serving the Nazi war machine
Aliona van der Horst’s documentary tells an impossibly painful and sad story from the second world war; it is an extraordinary tale, arguably worthy of Boris Pasternak and David Lean. It is presented by Dutch Estonian novelist Sana Valiulina, born in Soviet-era Tallinn and resident in Amsterdam since 1989. All her life, she reveals, she has been obsessed with the memory of her father, Sayar, a cold and distant figure when she was growing up, because for 15 years after the war he had been imprisoned in the gulag and made to internalise a grotesque sense of shame for having allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the Nazis after the battle of Smolensk in 1941; Stalin had told his troops to die in combat rather than submit to this dishonour.
Aliona van der Horst’s documentary tells an impossibly painful and sad story from the second world war; it is an extraordinary tale, arguably worthy of Boris Pasternak and David Lean. It is presented by Dutch Estonian novelist Sana Valiulina, born in Soviet-era Tallinn and resident in Amsterdam since 1989. All her life, she reveals, she has been obsessed with the memory of her father, Sayar, a cold and distant figure when she was growing up, because for 15 years after the war he had been imprisoned in the gulag and made to internalise a grotesque sense of shame for having allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the Nazis after the battle of Smolensk in 1941; Stalin had told his troops to die in combat rather than submit to this dishonour.
- 1/22/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Shortly after actor-director Michael Goorjian wrote the script for “Amerikatsi,” which is Armenia’s candidate for the international Oscar, he turned to System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian – who is also of Armenian descent – for feedback on the tale of an Armenian-American who repatriates in 1948 to what has become Soviet Armenia.
The Grammy-winning musician and political activist then became an executive producer on the film, which uses an ironic Chaplin-esque tone to depict the dream of the Armenian diaspora to reconnect with their roots.
Goorjian, who wrote and directed the movie, also stars as Charlie, an Armenian immigrant to the U.S. who returns to his homeland, now under Soviet rule, and almost immediately gets thrown into jail. But from his cell, he can see a prison guard’s home. Gradually, his life and that of the Armenian guard and his wife become vicariously entwined.
Goorjian and Tankian spoke...
The Grammy-winning musician and political activist then became an executive producer on the film, which uses an ironic Chaplin-esque tone to depict the dream of the Armenian diaspora to reconnect with their roots.
Goorjian, who wrote and directed the movie, also stars as Charlie, an Armenian immigrant to the U.S. who returns to his homeland, now under Soviet rule, and almost immediately gets thrown into jail. But from his cell, he can see a prison guard’s home. Gradually, his life and that of the Armenian guard and his wife become vicariously entwined.
Goorjian and Tankian spoke...
- 11/23/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Ridley Scott unveils Napoleon today at a lavish world premiere in the 2,500-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. He is 85 but seems ageless, and Scott is already plotting to quickly resume production on Gladiator, the second installment of his film that won five Oscars including Best Picture. He’s got 90 minutes of footage, fully edited, and needs that much more. He expects to be shooting within two weeks, and he’s already got his next movie slated for around March. Though he is keeping the details to himself, he acknowledged it’s period, with a script like perfectly distilled liquor, and two stars ready to join him in what he said is a bucket list project for him.
It’s tough to keep up with Scott, the master visualist who is most comfortable making a movie, or dreaming up the next one. Interviewing Sir Ridley is a bucket list item for any journalist,...
It’s tough to keep up with Scott, the master visualist who is most comfortable making a movie, or dreaming up the next one. Interviewing Sir Ridley is a bucket list item for any journalist,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
We are happy to announce that John & Mary Creative, the production house of former minister Shibu Baby John, has launched their second project with Antony Varghese in the lead role. The film, tentatively titled as Production No. 2, will be directed by debutant Govind Vishnu and scripted by Govind Vishnu and Deepu Rajeevan.
Production No. 2 is expected to be a thrilling action drama that will showcase Antony Varghese’s versatility as an actor. The actor, who is popularly known by his screen name Pepe, has been delivering back-to-back hits with films like Angamaly Diaries, Jallikattu, Ajagajantharam, and Rdx.
We are Happy Announce that #ProductionNo2 with #AntonyVarghese@shibu_babyjohn @antony_varghese_pepe @achubjohn@stalinstories @deepurajeevan#ProductionNo2 #ShibuBabyJohn #GovindVishnu #CenturyFilms #MaxLab #MalaikottaiVaaliban #JohnandMarycreative #RollingSoon pic.twitter.com/rhu6jVf9d4
— John & Mary creative (@Johnmaryctve) October 11, 2023
Production House is currently awaiting the release of their magnum opus Malaikottai Vaaliban, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery.
Production No. 2 is expected to be a thrilling action drama that will showcase Antony Varghese’s versatility as an actor. The actor, who is popularly known by his screen name Pepe, has been delivering back-to-back hits with films like Angamaly Diaries, Jallikattu, Ajagajantharam, and Rdx.
We are Happy Announce that #ProductionNo2 with #AntonyVarghese@shibu_babyjohn @antony_varghese_pepe @achubjohn@stalinstories @deepurajeevan#ProductionNo2 #ShibuBabyJohn #GovindVishnu #CenturyFilms #MaxLab #MalaikottaiVaaliban #JohnandMarycreative #RollingSoon pic.twitter.com/rhu6jVf9d4
— John & Mary creative (@Johnmaryctve) October 11, 2023
Production House is currently awaiting the release of their magnum opus Malaikottai Vaaliban, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery.
- 10/11/2023
- by CineArticles Editorial Team
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
Ridley Scott's four-hour 'Napoleon' director's cut will be released to streaming audiences.The 85-year-old director has confirmed that an extended version of his upcoming historical epic – which features Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor – will be available to viewers on Apple TV+ once the picture has been released in cinemas.Ridley told Total Film magazine: "I'm working on it. It was four (hours) 10 (minutes) this morning. And so what will happen is, we'll screen (the theatrical cut) first with Sony, and then it has its run, and then the perfect thing is that (the director's cut) goes to streaming, and we have four hours 10 minutes."The 'Blade Runner' director also revealed that he managed to shoot the period film in just 62 days, incorporating the staging of six epic battles.Ridley explained: "Every scene is geometry. By having 11 to 14 cameras, we shot 'Napoleon' in 62 days.
- 10/10/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Director Agnieszka Holland has been forced to take 24-hour security protection as she returns to her native Poland for the theatrical release of migrant drama Green Border in the face of a fierce political backlash and online hate campaign.
“The situation is very dynamic and keeps changing. I’m trying to keep a sane mind but it’s dangerous. This campaign could provoke real violence, not only verbal violence. It only takes one deranged person to take it seriously,” Holland told Deadline as she traveled to a pre-screening event Thursday.
Green Border, which opens in Poland on Friday, tackles the migrant crisis along Poland’s thickly forested border with Belarus, which Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is widely accused of engineering by encouraging people to travel to his country on the promise they can easily cross over to Poland and the European Union.
The film has touched a raw nerve with Poland’s ruling right-wing,...
“The situation is very dynamic and keeps changing. I’m trying to keep a sane mind but it’s dangerous. This campaign could provoke real violence, not only verbal violence. It only takes one deranged person to take it seriously,” Holland told Deadline as she traveled to a pre-screening event Thursday.
Green Border, which opens in Poland on Friday, tackles the migrant crisis along Poland’s thickly forested border with Belarus, which Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is widely accused of engineering by encouraging people to travel to his country on the promise they can easily cross over to Poland and the European Union.
The film has touched a raw nerve with Poland’s ruling right-wing,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
If “Rear Window meets Life Is Beautiful” sounds like an all-timer of a cursed elevator pitch, then there’s nothing Michael A. Goorjian’s well-intentioned crowd-pleaser Amerikatsi will be able to do to win you over. A stubbornly unfashionable blend of broad comedy and highly sentimental prisoner-of-war drama, it’s paint-by-numbers middlebrow cinema of the kind the Weinstein Company would release regularly, albeit on a much more contained budget. While there is some brief novelty factor that movies of this distinctively Weinsteinian vintage are still getting made outside Hollywood, even as the broader cinematic landscape has moved past emulating that studio’s tried-and-tested formula in the hopes of awards success, that nostalgia for films that weren’t particularly good in the first place wears off quickly.
Highly likely to be Armenia’s submission for the Best International Film Oscar––although, judging by how much of the movie is in English,...
Highly likely to be Armenia’s submission for the Best International Film Oscar––although, judging by how much of the movie is in English,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila | Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander
Our film tells us that Sisu is an untranslatable Finnish word, for extreme courage. I would debate who that word is supposed to apply to, as our protagonist here is an unfeeling mass murderer Perhaps it refers best to the rape victims of the Nazis, doing their best to survive.
Sisu had me thinking about real history. If I were to create a list of all the peoples and counties who had a legitimate beef with Nazi Germany, during the Second World War the Jews would be at the top and Finland would be at the very bottom. Finland was in a horrible position (literally) as it fought a nasty civil war, to keep Stalin from taking control of their country, but in doing so they signed a pact with the devil, and for most of the war,...
Our film tells us that Sisu is an untranslatable Finnish word, for extreme courage. I would debate who that word is supposed to apply to, as our protagonist here is an unfeeling mass murderer Perhaps it refers best to the rape victims of the Nazis, doing their best to survive.
Sisu had me thinking about real history. If I were to create a list of all the peoples and counties who had a legitimate beef with Nazi Germany, during the Second World War the Jews would be at the top and Finland would be at the very bottom. Finland was in a horrible position (literally) as it fought a nasty civil war, to keep Stalin from taking control of their country, but in doing so they signed a pact with the devil, and for most of the war,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
Toronto, June 29 (Ians) Human brains are hardwired to believe lies and conspiracy theories that have been brought about by politicians, dictators and social disruptors, according to a new book that analyses the power of language on people’s brains.
The book “Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories”, by Marcel Danesi Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada, analyses the speeches of dictators including Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler, as well as prominent hate groups.
His research finds there is one thing they all have in common: they all use dehumanising metaphors to instil and propagate hatred of others.
“The intent of such speech is to attack those who do not belong to the mainstream, such as racial minorities, or people of different sexual orientations,” Danesi said, citing example of words like ‘pests’, ‘reptiles’ and ‘parasites’ used by the Nazi regime to compare outsiders and minorities to animals.
The book “Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories”, by Marcel Danesi Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada, analyses the speeches of dictators including Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler, as well as prominent hate groups.
His research finds there is one thing they all have in common: they all use dehumanising metaphors to instil and propagate hatred of others.
“The intent of such speech is to attack those who do not belong to the mainstream, such as racial minorities, or people of different sexual orientations,” Danesi said, citing example of words like ‘pests’, ‘reptiles’ and ‘parasites’ used by the Nazi regime to compare outsiders and minorities to animals.
- 6/29/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court (Hc) on Wednesday rejected an interim injunction plea against Udayanidhi Stalin-starrer ‘Maamannan’.
The interim petition was filed with a plea for restraining the release of the movie and dismissed an application filed by the producer of another movie ‘Angel’.
Justice Kumaresh Babu of the Madras Hc held that the interim injunction could not be granted due to non-joinder of the proper parties.
He also said that he will hear a separate petition on June 28 evening that sought a direction from the court to Stalin to offer a call sheet and cooperate in the completion of the movie ‘Angel’.
The producer of ‘Angel’, Ramasaravanan, told the court that he had entered into an oral agreement with Stalin in 2018 for acting in his movie and had paid an advance of Rs 30 lakhs as against his total remuneration of Rs 1.25 crore.
The movie ‘Angel’ was...
The interim petition was filed with a plea for restraining the release of the movie and dismissed an application filed by the producer of another movie ‘Angel’.
Justice Kumaresh Babu of the Madras Hc held that the interim injunction could not be granted due to non-joinder of the proper parties.
He also said that he will hear a separate petition on June 28 evening that sought a direction from the court to Stalin to offer a call sheet and cooperate in the completion of the movie ‘Angel’.
The producer of ‘Angel’, Ramasaravanan, told the court that he had entered into an oral agreement with Stalin in 2018 for acting in his movie and had paid an advance of Rs 30 lakhs as against his total remuneration of Rs 1.25 crore.
The movie ‘Angel’ was...
- 6/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Chennai, June 14 (Ians) Tamil Nadu Electricity and Prohibition Minister V Senthil Balaji, who was arrested during early morning hours of Wednesday, has been advised by-pass surgery at the earliest. A coronary angiogram has been performed on the minister who complained of chest pain at the Tn Government Multi-Super Specialty hospital at Omandurar where he was admitted.
After the angiogram, doctors have advised a by-pass surgery on the arrested minister as the Coronary angiogram revealed a triple vessel disease.
It may be noted that Senthil Balaji was arrested after the Enforcement Directorate had conducted raids at his official residence and his office in the State Secretariat. He was questioned for 18 hours before being arrested during the early hours of Wednesday.
The arrest and subsequent hospitalisation of the minister has led to a wide-spread protests with Chief Minister Stalin himself leading the attack against the Centre. In a statement, Stalin said that...
After the angiogram, doctors have advised a by-pass surgery on the arrested minister as the Coronary angiogram revealed a triple vessel disease.
It may be noted that Senthil Balaji was arrested after the Enforcement Directorate had conducted raids at his official residence and his office in the State Secretariat. He was questioned for 18 hours before being arrested during the early hours of Wednesday.
The arrest and subsequent hospitalisation of the minister has led to a wide-spread protests with Chief Minister Stalin himself leading the attack against the Centre. In a statement, Stalin said that...
- 6/14/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Chennai, June 13 (Ians) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his strong opposition to the National Exit Test (NExT).
The Union Health Ministry has announced that a National Exit Test would be held from 2024. NExT would be a single examination that would replace final year Mbbs examination and the National Eligibility Entrance Test – Post Graduation. This will hence act as a qualifying examination for granting registration to doctors.
Stalin in the letter said that NExT need not be introduced and the existing system of examination should be allowed to continue.
He emphasised that the introduction of NExT is neither in the interest of the students, nor the state governments which fund most of the medical institutions.
The Chief Minister said that this was another instance of diluting the role of the state governments and universities in the health sector and to centralise power with the Central government.
The Union Health Ministry has announced that a National Exit Test would be held from 2024. NExT would be a single examination that would replace final year Mbbs examination and the National Eligibility Entrance Test – Post Graduation. This will hence act as a qualifying examination for granting registration to doctors.
Stalin in the letter said that NExT need not be introduced and the existing system of examination should be allowed to continue.
He emphasised that the introduction of NExT is neither in the interest of the students, nor the state governments which fund most of the medical institutions.
The Chief Minister said that this was another instance of diluting the role of the state governments and universities in the health sector and to centralise power with the Central government.
- 6/13/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Chennai, June 2 (Ians) When the maestro of the South Indian music world, Ilaiyaraaja, turned 80 on Friday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was the first among a galaxy of visitors who paid rich tributes to the ‘Isaignani’ on his birthday.
Taking to Twitter, Stalin wrote in Tamil: “He does not string musical instruments, he caresses our hearts.” The Chief Minister said that his late father, M. Karunanidhi, greatly appreciated the music of Ilayaraja and spoke of him as the ‘Isaignani’, or the sage of music.
South Indian superstar Kamal Haasan also took to Twitter and hailed Ilaiyaraaja as the ‘Emperor of Music’.
Ilaiyaraaja’s music essentially mirrors the richness of Tamil culture. Many of his followers have even commented on Twitter about how his music expresses a wide range of emotions.
The music maestro was born at Pannaipuram village in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu and during his carrier spanning six decades (and counting!
Taking to Twitter, Stalin wrote in Tamil: “He does not string musical instruments, he caresses our hearts.” The Chief Minister said that his late father, M. Karunanidhi, greatly appreciated the music of Ilayaraja and spoke of him as the ‘Isaignani’, or the sage of music.
South Indian superstar Kamal Haasan also took to Twitter and hailed Ilaiyaraaja as the ‘Emperor of Music’.
Ilaiyaraaja’s music essentially mirrors the richness of Tamil culture. Many of his followers have even commented on Twitter about how his music expresses a wide range of emotions.
The music maestro was born at Pannaipuram village in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu and during his carrier spanning six decades (and counting!
- 6/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Chennai, May 28 (Ians) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allowing ‘Khelo India Games 2023’ to be held in Tamil Nadu on his request.
In a tweet, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said that the Khelo India Games will provide a platform for young sportspersons from all Indian states showcase their sporting skills.
Stalin in the tweet said: “I thank Hon’ble Pm Thiru Narendra Modi Avl for having accepted my request to host the Khelo India Games 2023 in Tamil Nadu. These games will serve as a platform for young sportspersons all Indian states to showcase their sporting skills. As everyone witnessed during the 44th Chess Olympiad, Tamil Nadu will conduct the Khelo India Games with the befitting grandeur and showcase Tamil hospitality and culture.”
Khelo India University Games is an athletic championship in which different institutions across the country participate.
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In a tweet, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said that the Khelo India Games will provide a platform for young sportspersons from all Indian states showcase their sporting skills.
Stalin in the tweet said: “I thank Hon’ble Pm Thiru Narendra Modi Avl for having accepted my request to host the Khelo India Games 2023 in Tamil Nadu. These games will serve as a platform for young sportspersons all Indian states to showcase their sporting skills. As everyone witnessed during the 44th Chess Olympiad, Tamil Nadu will conduct the Khelo India Games with the befitting grandeur and showcase Tamil hospitality and culture.”
Khelo India University Games is an athletic championship in which different institutions across the country participate.
–Ians
aal/kvd...
- 5/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, whose members stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, has been sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy. The sentence is the longest yet for a conviction on charges related to the 2021 uprising.
Kelly Meggs — a top Oath Keepers deputy from Florida who led the militia’s charge of the Capitol wearing a patch reading, “I’M Just Here For The Violence” — received a sentence of 12 years on the same sedition charge.
Rhodes was convicted last November of the plot to block, by force,...
Kelly Meggs — a top Oath Keepers deputy from Florida who led the militia’s charge of the Capitol wearing a patch reading, “I’M Just Here For The Violence” — received a sentence of 12 years on the same sedition charge.
Rhodes was convicted last November of the plot to block, by force,...
- 5/25/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Nanni Moretti returns to the film-within-a-film format with a fitfully funny new comedy that, this time, offers two films-within-a-film (plus a surreal dream sequence). It is, frankly, a relief after 2021’s terrible, soapy melodrama Three Floors, and, at a crisp 96 minutes, so much easier to swallow. In some ways a companion piece to 2015’s Mia Madre, it finds the director putting all his neuroses back on show, pontificating on everything from movie violence to streaming platforms and why wearing slippers onscreen is a fashion no-no that can only be pulled off by Aretha Franklin in The Blues Brothers.
As is usual in Moretti’s self-reflexive pieces, the main film being made within the film is the kind of film that no director would ever make and that no modern audience would ever pay to see. Set in 1956, it sees Hungary’s Budavari Circus arriving in Rome’s Quarticciolo area, escaping the Soviet invasion of Budapest.
As is usual in Moretti’s self-reflexive pieces, the main film being made within the film is the kind of film that no director would ever make and that no modern audience would ever pay to see. Set in 1956, it sees Hungary’s Budavari Circus arriving in Rome’s Quarticciolo area, escaping the Soviet invasion of Budapest.
- 5/25/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember Titane? The day after Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or, a couple of summers ago in Cannes, Nanni Moretti took to Instagram and shared a selfie. The picture found him alone, staring––nay, glaring––at the camera, a halo of mercilessly grey hair framing his face, under-eye bags swollen. No filter. Moretti had traveled to Cannes for the premiere of his Three Floors, about which the less said the better, and waking up to the news that his film had lost to one where a Cadillac got a woman pregnant made him, per the selfie’s caption, “age overnight.” But the look embalmed on the ‘gram wasn’t that of a man trying to poke fun at his own mortality. It was the embittered frown of an artist who’d suddenly woken up to the fact that the world he once knew was changing, and would continue doing so...
- 5/24/2023
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The best received of Spanish series at last month’s Málaga Festival, “Nights in Tefía” (“Las Noches de Tefía”) hit the festival with already strong buzz. The latest from Spain’s Buendía Estudios and SVOD service Atresplayer Premium whose titles also include “Veneno” and “Cardo,” “Nights in Tefía” proved a critics’ favourite. Written and directed by Miguel del Arco, a distinguished Spanish playwright and theater director, it turns on Airam Betancor who, living in Tenerife in 2004, recognises an old man shuffling down the street: Robles.
He’s the same man who, 42 years before, as a prison guard at the euphemistically named Tefía Penitentiary Agricultural Colony on Fuerteventura, another Canary Island, had beaten and tortured Airam as a teen inmate of the Francoist labor camp designed as a dumping ground for undesirables, from political dissidents to the socially unruly and homosexuals.
The sight of Robles, who has moved into Airam’s...
He’s the same man who, 42 years before, as a prison guard at the euphemistically named Tefía Penitentiary Agricultural Colony on Fuerteventura, another Canary Island, had beaten and tortured Airam as a teen inmate of the Francoist labor camp designed as a dumping ground for undesirables, from political dissidents to the socially unruly and homosexuals.
The sight of Robles, who has moved into Airam’s...
- 4/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Ivanka Trump broke her silence on her father’s indictment, posting a bland 27-word statement on Instagram Friday morning.
The post read: “I love my father and I love my country. Today I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.”
> 100 Celebrity Kids & Their Famous Parents – Slideshow!
Previous reports stated that Ivanka has been distancing herself from the legal and political chaos surrounding her father.
Ivanka has reportedly wanted to be finished with politics – she has been absent from her father’s public campaign efforts to regain office. In a statement, Ivanka said she has chosen to prioritize her kids and family.
Her husband Jared Kushner called the indictment “troubling” and claimed that it’s evidence that Democrats are afraid of the “political strength” of his father-in-law.
Donald Trump’s indictment is "troubling" and a signal that Democrats are fearful of the former president's political strength,...
The post read: “I love my father and I love my country. Today I am pained for both. I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern.”
> 100 Celebrity Kids & Their Famous Parents – Slideshow!
Previous reports stated that Ivanka has been distancing herself from the legal and political chaos surrounding her father.
Ivanka has reportedly wanted to be finished with politics – she has been absent from her father’s public campaign efforts to regain office. In a statement, Ivanka said she has chosen to prioritize her kids and family.
Her husband Jared Kushner called the indictment “troubling” and claimed that it’s evidence that Democrats are afraid of the “political strength” of his father-in-law.
Donald Trump’s indictment is "troubling" and a signal that Democrats are fearful of the former president's political strength,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Donald Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday. As expected, the former president and his allies reacted with undiluted ire.
Trump responded initially with a pre-written statement railing against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, President Joe Biden, and the “Radical Left Democrats” for what he described as “Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.” Two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone they expect Trump to surrender to authorities on Tuesday.
“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,...
Trump responded initially with a pre-written statement railing against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, President Joe Biden, and the “Radical Left Democrats” for what he described as “Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.” Two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone they expect Trump to surrender to authorities on Tuesday.
“The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,...
- 3/30/2023
- by Ryan Bort and Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin on Wednesday congratulated and felicitated Bomman and Bellie, the caretaker couple at Theppakadu Elephant Camp.
The duo had featured in the Oscar-winning short documentary film, ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ directed by Kartiki Gonsalves.
The Chief Minister also announced Rs 1 lakh to each of the 91 elephant caretakers in the two camps from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
Stalin also announced Rs 9.1 crore for the construction of homes for the Mahouts. An additional Rs 5 crore was announced to develop an elephant camp in Anamalai Tiger Reserve.
A 39-minute documentary ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ featured Bomman and Bellie for their patience and love in taking care of the elephant calves, ‘Reghu’ and ‘Ammu’ at the Theppakadu elephant camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the lap of The Nilgiris.
The Director of the short documentary film, Kartiki Gonsalves had stayed for five years in the forests along with the...
The duo had featured in the Oscar-winning short documentary film, ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ directed by Kartiki Gonsalves.
The Chief Minister also announced Rs 1 lakh to each of the 91 elephant caretakers in the two camps from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
Stalin also announced Rs 9.1 crore for the construction of homes for the Mahouts. An additional Rs 5 crore was announced to develop an elephant camp in Anamalai Tiger Reserve.
A 39-minute documentary ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ featured Bomman and Bellie for their patience and love in taking care of the elephant calves, ‘Reghu’ and ‘Ammu’ at the Theppakadu elephant camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the lap of The Nilgiris.
The Director of the short documentary film, Kartiki Gonsalves had stayed for five years in the forests along with the...
- 3/15/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
This year, Latvia is sharing a spotlight with neighboring Lithuania and Estonia at the European Film Market, which has dedicated its 2023 Country in Focus Spotlight to the Baltic nations. It’s a sign of the tremendous strides the country has taken to put itself on the world cinema map, with the screen industries both producing more films and TV series than ever before and luring increasingly ambitious international projects to Northeastern Europe.
Here’s a rundown of some of the top Latvian projects in the pipeline that their producers will be pitching in Berlin:
Blue Blood
Director: Juris Kursietis
Producers: White Picture, Stellar Film, Asterisk*
The follow-up to Kursietis’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “Oleg” is the story of a successful couple whose comfortable life is turned upside-down when the husband is implicated in a massive corruption scandal.
Sales: N/A
Soviet Milk
Director: Ināra Kolmane
Producers: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone...
Here’s a rundown of some of the top Latvian projects in the pipeline that their producers will be pitching in Berlin:
Blue Blood
Director: Juris Kursietis
Producers: White Picture, Stellar Film, Asterisk*
The follow-up to Kursietis’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “Oleg” is the story of a successful couple whose comfortable life is turned upside-down when the husband is implicated in a massive corruption scandal.
Sales: N/A
Soviet Milk
Director: Ināra Kolmane
Producers: Jānis Juhņēvičs, Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone...
- 2/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran playback singer Vani Jayaram, 78, who was conferred with the Padma Bhushan, was cremated on Sunday with full state honours at the Besant Nagar electric crematorium. The singer, who has won three National awards and state awards from four state governments, passed away on Saturday at her residence in Haddows Road, Chennai.
Earlier on Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M K Stalin reached her residence and paid tributes to the deceased singer.
Stalin was accompanied by the State Health Minister, Ma Subramanian.
A wreath was laid on behalf of the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by Kerala government official in-charge of Non-Resident Kerala Affairs in Chennai.
Jairam has sung more than 10,000 songs in 19 different languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Odiya, Hariyanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and several other languages.
She won state government awards for the best singer from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odissa and Gujarat.
Her husband T...
Earlier on Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M K Stalin reached her residence and paid tributes to the deceased singer.
Stalin was accompanied by the State Health Minister, Ma Subramanian.
A wreath was laid on behalf of the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by Kerala government official in-charge of Non-Resident Kerala Affairs in Chennai.
Jairam has sung more than 10,000 songs in 19 different languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Odiya, Hariyanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and several other languages.
She won state government awards for the best singer from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odissa and Gujarat.
Her husband T...
- 2/5/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Chennai, Feb 5 (Ians) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin paid his last respects to departed playback singer, Padma Bhushan Vani Jayaram at her residence near Haddows Road on Sunday. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was accompanied by state health minister, Ma Subramanian and other officials.
Stalin told media persons that he was sad at the passing away of the great singer who had brought several laurels to the state. He also expressed his condolences to the family members of Vani Jayaram.
The chief minister also said that Vani Jayaram departing without receiving the Padma Bhushan award bestowed upon her was very painful. He said that Vani Jayaram will be remembered for the numerous songs that she had rendered during her life period across several languages.
The Chief Minister also placed a wreath on the departed singer’s body.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Police after receiving the post-mortem report said...
Stalin told media persons that he was sad at the passing away of the great singer who had brought several laurels to the state. He also expressed his condolences to the family members of Vani Jayaram.
The chief minister also said that Vani Jayaram departing without receiving the Padma Bhushan award bestowed upon her was very painful. He said that Vani Jayaram will be remembered for the numerous songs that she had rendered during her life period across several languages.
The Chief Minister also placed a wreath on the departed singer’s body.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Police after receiving the post-mortem report said...
- 2/5/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Chennai, Feb 5 (Ians) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin paid his last respects to departed playback singer, Padma Bhushan Vani Jayaram at her residence near Haddows Road on Sunday. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was accompanied by state health minister, Ma Subramanian and other officials.
Stalin told media persons that he was sad at the passing away of the great singer who had brought several laurels to the state. He also expressed his condolences to the family members of Vani Jayaram.
The chief minister also said that Vani Jayaram departing without receiving the Padma Bhushan award bestowed upon her was very painful. He said that Vani Jayaram will be remembered for the numerous songs that she had rendered during her life period across several languages.
The Chief Minister also placed a wreath on the departed singer’s body.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Police after receiving the post-mortem report said...
Stalin told media persons that he was sad at the passing away of the great singer who had brought several laurels to the state. He also expressed his condolences to the family members of Vani Jayaram.
The chief minister also said that Vani Jayaram departing without receiving the Padma Bhushan award bestowed upon her was very painful. He said that Vani Jayaram will be remembered for the numerous songs that she had rendered during her life period across several languages.
The Chief Minister also placed a wreath on the departed singer’s body.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Police after receiving the post-mortem report said...
- 2/5/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Nothing — not Tom Cruise’s snub nor Austin Butler’s lingering Elvis Presley inflections — has caused quite as much a stir around this year’s Oscars as the best-actress nomination for British actress Andrea Riseborough.
Riseborough was unexpectedly nominated for her performance as an alcoholic Texas single mother in the scantly seen indie drama “To Leslie”, a pick that shocked Oscar pundits and has since brought scrutiny from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. For a movie that has grossed 27,322 at the box office, “To Leslie” and Riseborough have made a lot of noise.
At issue is the way Riseborough’s candidacy was promoted. Though many awards contenders are backed by orchestrated campaigns paid for by their film’s studio, Riseborough rose into the Oscar ranks thanks largely to the grassroots efforts of “To Leslie” director Michael Morris and his wife, actor Mary McCormack. They urged stars to...
Riseborough was unexpectedly nominated for her performance as an alcoholic Texas single mother in the scantly seen indie drama “To Leslie”, a pick that shocked Oscar pundits and has since brought scrutiny from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. For a movie that has grossed 27,322 at the box office, “To Leslie” and Riseborough have made a lot of noise.
At issue is the way Riseborough’s candidacy was promoted. Though many awards contenders are backed by orchestrated campaigns paid for by their film’s studio, Riseborough rose into the Oscar ranks thanks largely to the grassroots efforts of “To Leslie” director Michael Morris and his wife, actor Mary McCormack. They urged stars to...
- 1/31/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Jamshedpur, Jan 27 (Ians) Mumbai City Fc extended their unbeaten streak in the Indian Super League (Isl) 2022-23 to a record-breaking 16 games after an extraordinary 2-1 comeback victory over Jamshedpur Fc at the Jrd Tata Sports Complex, here on Friday.
Boris Singh had put the hosts in front in the 63rd minute before Lallianzuala Chhangte and Vikram Singh turned the game on its head in the final ten minutes to seal the victory for the visitors. The win extended the Islanders’ lead at the top of the table to seven points.
Aidy Boothroyd made four changes to his team and brought in Tp Rehenesh, Pratik Chaudhari, Boris Singh and Jay Thomas. Rafael Crivellaro started from the bench. Des Buckingham made a couple of changes with Sanjeev Stalin and Mandar Dessai coming into the starting lineup.
At the midway point of the first half, Jamshedpur Fc had seven attempts compared to Mumbai City Fc’s two.
Boris Singh had put the hosts in front in the 63rd minute before Lallianzuala Chhangte and Vikram Singh turned the game on its head in the final ten minutes to seal the victory for the visitors. The win extended the Islanders’ lead at the top of the table to seven points.
Aidy Boothroyd made four changes to his team and brought in Tp Rehenesh, Pratik Chaudhari, Boris Singh and Jay Thomas. Rafael Crivellaro started from the bench. Des Buckingham made a couple of changes with Sanjeev Stalin and Mandar Dessai coming into the starting lineup.
At the midway point of the first half, Jamshedpur Fc had seven attempts compared to Mumbai City Fc’s two.
- 1/27/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Prokofiev’s opera War & Peace is presented on 28 January 2023 by the internationally renowned Catalan opera director Calixto Bieito in a joint production between the Hungarian State Opera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. The cast featuring 28 soloists is led by Andrea Brassói-Jőrös, Szabolcs Brickner and Csaba Szegedi, the Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Alan Buribayev.
The will to live of the physically and mentally broken Andrei Bolkonsky, wishing to die, is restored by his budding love for the young and cheerful Natasha Rostova in vain as the warm-hearted girl and her family are cruelly and harshly rejected by Andrei’s father, the elderly Prince Bolkonsky. As a result of Andrei’s obedience, Natasha falls into the net of the married Anatole Kuragin, but his elopement with the girl is eventually prevented by Natasha’s cousin, Sonya. The humiliated Natasha attempts suicide in her despair, unsuccessfully. As a result of the events,...
The will to live of the physically and mentally broken Andrei Bolkonsky, wishing to die, is restored by his budding love for the young and cheerful Natasha Rostova in vain as the warm-hearted girl and her family are cruelly and harshly rejected by Andrei’s father, the elderly Prince Bolkonsky. As a result of Andrei’s obedience, Natasha falls into the net of the married Anatole Kuragin, but his elopement with the girl is eventually prevented by Natasha’s cousin, Sonya. The humiliated Natasha attempts suicide in her despair, unsuccessfully. As a result of the events,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Written, produced and directed by Vic Gerami, “Motherland” has been an ‘Official Selection’ in 63 film festivals, has won 38 awards, was shortlisted for Film Independent’s ‘Spirit Awards,’ and is Oscar-qualified and available in The Academy’s ‘Screening Room’ for its members for the Oscars race.
“Motherland” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Gerami deals with the attack against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Armenians in 2020 by Turkish and Azerbaijani forces that resulted in the death of 5,000 Armemians, but also highlights the historical as much the contemporary context that led to this attack. To achieve this, Geramin traveled a number of times between the US and Armenia in order to conduct interviews with various individuals, from 7 members of Congress and Baroness Caroline Cox, Life Peer Member of the British House of Lords, to experts on the subject, to a number of the victims of the attack.
In that fashion, and through...
“Motherland” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Gerami deals with the attack against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Armenians in 2020 by Turkish and Azerbaijani forces that resulted in the death of 5,000 Armemians, but also highlights the historical as much the contemporary context that led to this attack. To achieve this, Geramin traveled a number of times between the US and Armenia in order to conduct interviews with various individuals, from 7 members of Congress and Baroness Caroline Cox, Life Peer Member of the British House of Lords, to experts on the subject, to a number of the victims of the attack.
In that fashion, and through...
- 1/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Ken Loach has criticised the BBC, saying it played a “shameless role” in “the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership”.
The British film director, 85, expressed the belief that the BBC “played a prime role” in the former Labour leader’s exit from the party.
According to Loach, Corbyn’s “political project has been wiped out of the public discourse” despite “nearly becoming the government three years ago”.
Corbyn stepped down as Labour leader in 2020 following the party’s defeat in the 2019 general election.
Loach said that Corbyn’s role had been “delegitimised”, telling Equal Times: “They’ve rewritten history so that it doesn’t exist. It’s like the photograph of Trotsky that Stalin cut out.
“The man doesn’t exist in history. Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t exist in history now.”
In August 2021, the left-wing filmmaker revealed that current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had removed him as a party...
The British film director, 85, expressed the belief that the BBC “played a prime role” in the former Labour leader’s exit from the party.
According to Loach, Corbyn’s “political project has been wiped out of the public discourse” despite “nearly becoming the government three years ago”.
Corbyn stepped down as Labour leader in 2020 following the party’s defeat in the 2019 general election.
Loach said that Corbyn’s role had been “delegitimised”, telling Equal Times: “They’ve rewritten history so that it doesn’t exist. It’s like the photograph of Trotsky that Stalin cut out.
“The man doesn’t exist in history. Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t exist in history now.”
In August 2021, the left-wing filmmaker revealed that current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had removed him as a party...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
CinemaThis comes shortly after Udhayanidhi Stalin was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister on December 14. Tnm StaffFacebook/ Udhayanidhi StalinShortly after Udhayanidhi Stalin, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (Dmk) youth wing secretary and Mla from the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni constituency in Chennai was sworn in as the state minister on Wednesday, December 14, he announced that the upcoming Tamil movie Maamannan would be his last film as an actor. Speaking to the media after the swearing in ceremony on December 14, Udhayanidhi Stalin, who is the son of Chief Minister Mk Stalin, said in Tamil, “No, I am not acting anymore. I was supposed to act in a movie produced by Kamal sir. When he came to know about this, he was the first one to congratulate. The last film would be Maamannan with Thiru Mari Selvaraj,” he said. However, it is unclear whether Udhayanidhi will continue to produce and distribute films under his home banner Red Giant Movies.
- 12/14/2022
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
DeathAaroor has written the screenplay and dialogues for several films starring popular actors Mg Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. Tnm StaffTwitter/ @rs_prakash3Veteran screenwriter Aaroor Dass passed away on Sunday, November 20, in Chennai. He was 91 years old. In his career spanning over six decades, Aaroor had worked in over 1000 films. Aaroor Dass has predominantly penned dialogues and screenplay for Tamil films. He wrote the dialogues for late Kollywood star Sivaji Ganesan’s popular Tamil film Pasamalar. Born as Yesudas in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvarur, the screenwriter decided to use Aaroor Dass as his stage name, and added the last part of his hometown to his name. Aaroor has worked with popular actors like Mg Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mk Stalin paid his last respects to Aaroor Das on Monday. Earlier in June this year, Stalin had handed over the Kalaignar Kalaithurai Vithagar Award to the veteran...
- 11/21/2022
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
Unless you’re savvy with torrenting, Orson Welles’ trippy and disturbing 1962 film “The Trial” has been hard to find. Various restorations from 35mm negatives have popped up over the years, but Welles fans have long been resigned to inferior-quality rips on DVD, VHS, or the internet. That’s no longer so, as Rialto Pictures is releasing a long-overdue 4K restoration of the Franz Kafka adaptation starring Anthony Perkins as a man being persecuted for an unspecified crime. The 60th-anniversary 4K restoration opens at Film Forum December 9 before expanding nationally, and IndieWire has the exclusive trailer below.
“The Trial” also stars Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Elsa Martinelli as the women who become entangled with Josef K. (Perkins) and his trial. The film, which has occasionally played repertory houses in low-quality formats, was restored by Studiocanal and La Cinematheque Francaise. The image and sound restorations were carried out in 4K at...
“The Trial” also stars Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Elsa Martinelli as the women who become entangled with Josef K. (Perkins) and his trial. The film, which has occasionally played repertory houses in low-quality formats, was restored by Studiocanal and La Cinematheque Francaise. The image and sound restorations were carried out in 4K at...
- 11/17/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The first season of "Andor" has managed to be both a heist movie and a prison movie set in the ever-expanding "Star Wars" universe. While the show's latest arc has seen Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) tucked away as an inmate and worker in an Imperial factory (where he's kept up the trend of alliterative aliases by trading "Clem" for "Keef"), the whole reason Cassian landed there in the first place is that he was vacationing on a beach resort planet using his cut of the money from the heist of an Imperial sector's payroll. It may not sound like the kind of thing a young Joseph Stalin would do, but that's the real-world historical figure whose early life inspired the heist in "Andor," according to showrunner Tony Gilroy.
The build-up and execution of the heist played out in "Andor" episodes four through six, directed by Susanna White and scripted by Gilroy's younger brother,...
The build-up and execution of the heist played out in "Andor" episodes four through six, directed by Susanna White and scripted by Gilroy's younger brother,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
It may well be an unconscious impulse but the writers are directly or indirectly influenced by their socio-political millieu, even when opposing it, and you don’t need to be a Marxist to acknowledge that.
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.
The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
- 9/4/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Film premiere and headlines spilling from a trio of fests in full swing (Venice), just starting (Telluride) and queued up (Toronto) have indie exhibitors and distributors the most hopeful since Covid hit that a stream of new films could fire up the arthouse market.
Tod Fields’ Cate Blanchett-starrer Tár (debuted to a six-minute standing ovation in Venice), Timothée Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All (also just screened on the Lido), and Empire of Light with Olivia Colman, set to world premiere at Telluride, and a raft of others are slated for fall theatrical release. A deluge of specialty films from Sundance and Cannes will also move into U.S. cinemas later this month.
“Arthouse theaters are behind where they were in 2019, but I think this fall things will come racing back. These festivals have the goods,” said John Vanco, Gm of New York’s IFC Center.
Tod Fields’ Cate Blanchett-starrer Tár (debuted to a six-minute standing ovation in Venice), Timothée Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All (also just screened on the Lido), and Empire of Light with Olivia Colman, set to world premiere at Telluride, and a raft of others are slated for fall theatrical release. A deluge of specialty films from Sundance and Cannes will also move into U.S. cinemas later this month.
“Arthouse theaters are behind where they were in 2019, but I think this fall things will come racing back. These festivals have the goods,” said John Vanco, Gm of New York’s IFC Center.
- 9/2/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Before we highlight this week’s picks, I want to give a special shout-out to our newly-launched Twitter account for Michael Snydel’s podcast Intermission. He’s sharing daily, well-curated streaming recommendations, so be sure to give it a follow!
Burial (Ben Parker)
From Tarantino to Mann to Marvel, mining Word War II for fictional storytelling purposes is nothing new in cinema. The latest to take the leap is Ben Parker’s Burial, a staid action thriller following Russian soldiers who are transporting the corpse of Hitler back to their homeland, per Stalin’s request. While Parker suggests some interesting ideas about conflicted nationalism at the end of a war, and he gets the table-setting right when it comes to mood, Burial...
Before we highlight this week’s picks, I want to give a special shout-out to our newly-launched Twitter account for Michael Snydel’s podcast Intermission. He’s sharing daily, well-curated streaming recommendations, so be sure to give it a follow!
Burial (Ben Parker)
From Tarantino to Mann to Marvel, mining Word War II for fictional storytelling purposes is nothing new in cinema. The latest to take the leap is Ben Parker’s Burial, a staid action thriller following Russian soldiers who are transporting the corpse of Hitler back to their homeland, per Stalin’s request. While Parker suggests some interesting ideas about conflicted nationalism at the end of a war, and he gets the table-setting right when it comes to mood, Burial...
- 9/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Arriving at a fateful time in the history of handling top secrets, “Hoop Dreams” filmmaker Steve James’s new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” aims to suggest that not all disloyalty is so clear-cut.
Though James couldn’t have foreseen the country being gripped by speculation about the motives of an unprincipled ex-president in suspicious possession of sensitive documents, this slice of history — making its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival — nevertheless offers up a story of unambiguous espionage with idealistic motive: a Harvard physics undergraduate recruited for the Manhattan Project who, in 1944, passed on its secrets to the Soviet Union to safeguard the world from monopolistic power and atomic annihilation.
His name was Ted Hall, and though he was suspected his whole life by authorities, he lived free from prosecution, raising a family and working at Cambridge University on pioneering biophysics until his death in 1999.
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Why ‘City So Real...
Though James couldn’t have foreseen the country being gripped by speculation about the motives of an unprincipled ex-president in suspicious possession of sensitive documents, this slice of history — making its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival — nevertheless offers up a story of unambiguous espionage with idealistic motive: a Harvard physics undergraduate recruited for the Manhattan Project who, in 1944, passed on its secrets to the Soviet Union to safeguard the world from monopolistic power and atomic annihilation.
His name was Ted Hall, and though he was suspected his whole life by authorities, he lived free from prosecution, raising a family and working at Cambridge University on pioneering biophysics until his death in 1999.
Also Read:
Why ‘City So Real...
- 9/2/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
The news of the death of the last Ussr leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday got little attention outside of the former Soviet Bloc. Thirty-three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has moved on. But for a generation of us growing up behind the Iron Curtain, he changed the course of our lives and allowed us to pursue careers we never thought possible.
When you type Gorbachev’s name into Google, the search engine’s top suggestion is “Gorbachev Pizza Hut,” a reference to the famous 1998 TV commercial featuring the politician who became the first and only President of the Soviet Union.
In it, he and a little girl walk into a restaurant and share a pizza. As older and younger patrons recognize him, they begin to debate in Russian, with an older man arguing that because of Gorbachev, there is economic turmoil and political instability, and...
When you type Gorbachev’s name into Google, the search engine’s top suggestion is “Gorbachev Pizza Hut,” a reference to the famous 1998 TV commercial featuring the politician who became the first and only President of the Soviet Union.
In it, he and a little girl walk into a restaurant and share a pizza. As older and younger patrons recognize him, they begin to debate in Russian, with an older man arguing that because of Gorbachev, there is economic turmoil and political instability, and...
- 8/31/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Hello, everyone! While October might be officially considered “Spooky Season,” these days it feels like September is now when everything actually starts to ramp up towards the Halloween holiday, especially when you look at all the great horror coming to VOD and Digital platforms this month. So, if you’re looking to start indulging in a lot of great genre entertainment now that October 31st is right around the corner, then check out our rundown of all the great horror movies headed to VOD and a variety of digital platforms this September so that you can start planning accordingly.
Happy streaming!
The Harbinger (Screen Media Films) - September 1st
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.
Root Letter...
Happy streaming!
The Harbinger (Screen Media Films) - September 1st
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.
Root Letter...
- 8/31/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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