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One of India's leading artists, Tyeb Mehta, died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday at ...
U.S district judge ruled in favour of Salinger after the reclusive writer last month took ...
Franz Ferdinand released two albums six months into 2009, pretty productive you say. Hearing Blood, ...
Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare's non fiction work on the marine creature has won ...
The world has changed drastically since the Up project began in 1964. Our multimedia culture ...

India’s leading artist Tyeb Mehta dies

One of India's leading artists, Tyeb Mehta, died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday at Asian Heart Institute Hospital in Mumbai. Mehta was 84. Mehta’s acclaimed work Kali crossed Rs.10 million in 2005 at an Indian auction house, followed by ...
India’s leading artist Tyeb Mehta dies

Salinger wins Catcher in the Rye case

U.S district judge ruled in favour of Salinger after the reclusive writer last month took legal action to ban publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by Fredrik Colting, a Swedish author writing under the pen name J.D ...
Salinger wins Catcher in the Rye case

Blood - Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand released two albums six months into 2009, pretty productive you say. Hearing Blood, their sophomore effort of the year, even if it's simply a dub remix of their first album Tonight, won't alter ideas about their productivity or talent. Blood ...
Blood - Franz Ferdinand

Whale tale wins top Britain non-fiction prize

Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare's non fiction work on the marine creature has won the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain’s most popular book non fiction book prize. The prize of £20,000 was received by Hoare who calls the whale “a ...
Whale tale wins top Britain non-fiction prize

Up Series - Paul Almond & Michael Apted

The world has changed drastically since the Up project began in 1964. Our multimedia culture produces virtual worlds like Facebook, YouTube, and the blogosphere. We broadcast our lives to each other daily — some of us hourly or minutely who ...
Up Series - Paul Almond & Michael Apted

Burn This Book - edited by Toni Morrison

Burn This Book, edited by Toni Morrison in collaboration with PEN, is a collection of essays and speeches by writers about “censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ...
19 June 2009 || Read the full story

Blood - Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand released two albums six months into 2009, pretty productive you say. Hearing Blood, their sophomore effort of the year, even if it's simply a dub remix of their first album Tonight, won't alter ideas about ...
2 July 2009 || Read the full story

Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman

The silence of God has never been more strident than in Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman’s 1972 masterpiece. In fact it is so loud that it keeps the inhabitants of an old manor awake all the ...
23 June 2009 || Read the full story

Three Monkeys - Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Three Monkeys bagged the best director prize at the Cannes and was Turkey’s submission to the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film. The film further went on to pip the ...
27 January 2009 || Read the full story

Of Dimes and Dames - The Mesmerizing World of Film Noirs

March - 29 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 8 Responses

Welcome to the world of film noirs – a world infested by two-bit thugs and crooked cops, anti-heroes with a thing for cynical wisecracks, platinum blondes ready to take a good man on a bad ride, femme fatales in the garb of damsels in distress, shabby joints where men of dubious intents plot shady deals over cheap whiskey and cigarettes, seedy hotel rooms where love is just another word. This is a dark, dark world where you get greed, lust, betrayal, double crosses and murder in plenty – a world devoid of the so called good things of life.

Oscar – sold to the studio with the biggest promotion?

February - 6 - 2009 Author: Roy Stafford 1 Response

The film industry, in the form we understand today, is approaching its centenary. The first attempts to organise and standardise production, distribution and exhibition date from around 1910/11. A few years later, the first Hollywood studio majors began to appear in nascent form (Universal and Paramount in 1912). But it was not until 1927 [...]

Is Slumdog the posterboy for modern global cinema?

January - 15 - 2009 Author: Roy Stafford 7 Responses

A British director with a British screenplay telling an Indian story based on a book by an Indian author, using predominantly an Indian crew of mixed nationalities - Sound like a global film?
There are certain films and filmmakers that become associated with the zeitgeist or ‘spirit of the times’. The release of Slumdog Millionaire [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 3)

June - 8 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 2 Responses

While speaking about Ray’s contributions to the world of cinema, it is very easy to overlook, especially those who do not speak Bengali, his prolific literary output. In fact it can be safely said that, had he not been a filmmaker, he would still have been as famous, at least in Bengal – such was [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 2)

June - 5 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri Respond

Ray covered a host of genres in his lifetime – from psychological, urban dramas to satirical comedies and musicals, from political films to children’s fantasies, from historical epics to detective movies, from noirish tales to simple fables, from road movies to buddy films – he covered ‘em all. In Jalsaghar (The Music Room) you have [...]

Satyajit Ray – Auteur Extraordinaire (Part 1)

June - 3 - 2009 Author: Shubhajit Lahiri 1 Response

Satyajit Ray was a Renaissance Man – a versatile genius of immense capabilities. A towering personality, he wasn’t just one of the great auteurs of world cinema, but also a prolific writer, a brilliant illustrator, and an exceptional composer among others. Born to a family of literary giants, Ray is a cultural icon like few others.

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India’s leading artist Tyeb Mehta dies

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One of India's leading artists, Tyeb Mehta, died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday at ...

Salinger wins Catcher in the Rye case

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U.S district judge ruled in favour of Salinger after the reclusive writer last month took ...

Whale tale wins top Britain non-fiction prize

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Leviathan, or The Whale, Philip Hoare's non fiction work on the marine creature has won ...

Alice Munro receives Man Booker International Prize

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Alice Munro collected the Man Booker International Prize 2009 during a ceremony at Trinity College ...

Pop Star Michael Jackson aged 50, dies

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It is a day of mourning for the world of music as Michael Jackson, famously ...

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