[Reader-list] Film Festivals Schedule 3rd - 12th October 2009 , New Delhi
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Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Film Festival
Entry free
Date
Time
Venue
Film
Duration
3rd Oct (Saturday)
3 pm
Siri Fort 3
Rashomon
1 hr 28 mins
3rd Oct (Saturday)
5 pm
Siri Fort 3
High and Low
2 hr 22 mins
3rd Oct (Saturday)
7.30 pm
Siri Fort 3
Doomed
2 hr 23 mins
4th Oct (Sunday)
12 noon
Siri Fort 3
Sanjuro
1 hr 36 mins
4th Oct (Sunday)
3 pm
Siri Fort 3
Red Beard
3 hrs 5 mins
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Bimal Roy Centenary Film Festival
Entry free
Date
Time
Venue
Film
Duration
10th Oct (Saturday)
11 am
Siri Fort 2
Bandini (opening film)
2 hr 37 mins
11th Oct (Sunday)
11 am
Siri Fort 2
Parakh
2 hr 30 mins
12th Oct (Monday)
7 pm
Siri Fort 2
Sujata
2 hr 41 mins
13th Oct (Tuesday)
7 pm
Siri Fort 2
Do Bigha Zameen
2 hr 22 mins
14th Oct (Wednesday)
7 pm
Siri Fort 2
Madhumati
2 hrs 30 mins
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Children Film Festival on Walt Disney
Entry free
Date
Time
Venue
Film
Duration
12th Oct (Mon)
9 am
Siri Fort 2
Finding Nemo
1 hr 40 min
12th Oct
11.30 am
Siri Fort 2
Enchanted
1 hr 47 min
13th Oct (Tues)
9 am
Siri Fort 2
Pirates 1
2 hr 23 minHRHR
13th Oct
11.30 am
Siri Fort 2
Pirates 2
2 hr 31 min
14th Oct (Wed)
9 am
Siri Fort 2
Pirates 3
2 hr 49 min
14th Oct
11.30 am
Siri Fort 2
Cars
1 hr 57 min
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Canadian Film Festival
Date
Time
Venue
Film
Duration
10th Oct (Saturday)
6.45 PM
Siri Fort 2
Men with Brooms (opening)
1hr 43 mins
11th Oct (Sunday)
6 pm
Siri Fort 2
One Week
1 hr 34 mins
12th Oct (Monday)
9 am
Siri Fort 3
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
85 mins
12th Oct (Monday)
11.30 am
Siri Fort 3
Too Colourful for the League
52 mins
12th Oct (Monday)
12.30 pm
Siri Fort 3
Hardwood
29 mins
12 Oct (Monday)
2 pm
Siri Fort 3
Wate
rwalker
86 mins
12 Oct (Monday)
7 p.m.
Siri Fort 3
Le Grande Seduction (Eng. Title: Seducing Dr Lewis)
1hr 48 mins
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Segment: FILM FESTIVALS - Children Film Festival by Walt Disney
Dates: 12-14th October
Venue: Siri Fort II
Time and date of the Inaugural film: 12th October 9 a.m.
Opening Film: Finding Nemo
Synopsis of the films
Finding Nemo
Director: Andrew Stanton
Duration: 1 hr 40 min
A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his
son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's
constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted
by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So,
while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish
named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The
companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea
creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue
Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor.
While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the
dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their
lives free again.
Enchanted
Director: Kevin Lima
Duration: 1 hr 47 min
The beautiful pr
incess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her
magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality
of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new
environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis,
Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment.
But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed
divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already
promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder:
Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Pirates of the Caribbean-The Curse of the Black Pearl
Director: Gore Verbinski
Duration: 2 hrs 23 min
Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an
era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller
coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in
rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the
world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa,
in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover
the lost treasure that Jack seeks.
Pirates of the Caribbean-The Dead Man's Chest
Director: Gore Verbinski
Duration: 2 hr 31 min
Once again thrown into the world of the supernatural, Captain Jack
Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey
Jones, Ca
ptain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. With time running out,
Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to eternal
damnation and servitude in the afterlife. And as if this weren't
enough, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are arrested and sentenced to
death unless Will can get Lord Beckett Jack's compass, who are forced
to join Jack on yet another misadventure.
Pirates of the Caribbean-At World's End
Director: Gore Verbinski
Duration: 2 hr 49 min
Elizabeth, Will and the crew of the Pearl sail off the edge of the map
(literally) with the help of mysterious Tia Dalma and the late Captain
Barbossa who has been raised by the dead to save Captain Jack Sparrow .
He has been condemned to the terrible fate of remaining in the void of
Davey Jones' locker for eternity. But rescuing Jack isn't the real meat
of this movie - Lord Cutler Beckett has control of the heart of Davey
Jones, and with that he controls the sea. The nine pirate lords of the
world must unite for a final stand against Beckett, Jones and the East
India Trade company
Cars
Director: John Lasseter
Duration: 1 hr 57 min
Year: 2006
Lightning McQueen is a young, hotshot rookie race car in the last race
of the season. At the end of the race, he finds out he is tied with
Chick Hicks and The King. On the way to the tie-breaker race in Los
Angeles, California, some hot punk cars get
him lost in a little town
called Radiator Springs on the old Route 66 road, which has been long
forgotten many years ago. Scared to death, he tears up the town's main
road and is sentenced to community service by Doc Hudson. During this
time, he meets a funny, but lovable tow truck named Mater and a
beautiful Porsche Carrera named Sally. He also meets some other cars,
whom which he finds to be quite odd. All he wants to do is get out of
this town and back into the big city, but as the week until the race
goes on, the town folk help him discover that life isn't just about
trophies, fame, and sponsorships and McQueen learns about family and
friendship.
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Segment: FILM FESTIVALS - Canadian Sports Film Festival
Dates: 10-12th October
Venue: Siri Fort II & III
Time and date of the Inaugural film: 10th October 6.45 p.m.
Opening Film: Men with Brooms
Synopsis of the Canadian films
Feature Films
Men with Brooms
Duration: 1 hr 43 min
Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from
a small Canadian town. This offbeat comedy follows the team as they
work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the
championship for the sake of their late coach. Written by Alea Intrica
and directed by Paul Gross.
One=2
0Week
Duration: 1 hr 34 min
When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a
cross-country road trip on a vintage motorcycle. One Week tells the
story of Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson), in his mid-twenties, who flees
from the confines of his life - an impending marriage, a job he's not
entirely happy with and a recent diagnosis - in order to attempt to
live more fully. What starts off as an ill-defined venture soon morphs
into a quest for the West Coast.
La Grande Seduction (Eng title: Seducing Dr Lewis)
Duration: 1 hr and 49 mins
In the little harbour village of Sainte-Marie-La-Maudeme, the vanishing
fish stocks have plummeted a once thriving community into decline,
forcing the fishermen to rely on government welfare. When a small
company considers buiding a factory on the island, the inhabitants see
an opportunity for the village to be restored to greatness. But the
factory cannot be built without a resident doctor. Seeking to attract
the young Dr. Lewis, Germain spearheads the transformation of the
village. It's the beginning of the seduction. While sometimes ruthless
and often clumsy, even the most disillusioned villagers rally to the
cause. Together and with great dedication they try to convince the
doctor that Sainte-Marie-La-Maudeme is the ideal place to be.
Documentaries
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Duration: 85 min
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Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever
lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep
Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events
surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective. It delves into the
psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and
suspicions that have arisen around IBM's true tactics. It consists of
interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of
the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself.
Hardwood
Duration: 29 min
Hardwood is a personal journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of
former Harlem Globetrottter Mel Davis, who explores how his father's
decisions affected his life and those of his extended family. Elegantly
structured into three chapters entitled "love," "recollection" and
"redemption," Davis uses personal interviews, archival footage and home
movies to delve into his father's past in the hope of finding a new
direction for his own. At its core, Hardwood is about the power of
redemption and the healing of the bonds between fathers and sons.
Waterwalker
Duration: 86 min
Canoeist and painter Bill Mason explores the Canadian wilderness to the
north of Lake Superior. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake
Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to
the meadowlands of the river's sou
rce.
When Hockey Came to Belfast
Duration: 50 min
When Hockey Came to Belfast is the striking story of how Canadian ice
hockey is transcending religious lines. Bringing Northern Irish youth
together in a shared love of the game, the rink gives boys and girls a
haven from the turf warfare that pervades their lives.
Too Colourful for the League
Duration: 52 min
Too Colourful for the League is a (made-for-TV) documentary examining
the struggle of blacks in hockey from the 30's to the present day and
the campaign to have Herb Carnegie elected into the Hall of Fame.
Carnegie was a black superstar in the 40's and 50's who never played in
the NHL because of the league's unacknowledged color bar.
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Akira Kurosawa's movies
Red Beard:
1965
Language : Japanese
Cast:
This Akira Kurosawa film tells the tale of young Dr. Yasumoto, a recent
medical graduate assigned to a rural clinic for his post-graduate
medical training. Yasumoto is condescending and arrogant--he is livid
that he, who aspires to join the team of physicians caring for the
Japanese Shogunate, should have to train in Dr. Niide's spartan clinic
serving the impoverished local population. He finds Dr. Niide, known as
'Red Beard', a demanding taskmaster with a brusque manner and intense
devotio
n to his patients. Niide requires nothing less than a monastic
lifestyle of his interns. However, gradually Yasumoto is changed by his
exposure to Red Beard. He learns the true meaning of being a doctor,
seeing patients as real people who are suffering and as individuals
whose lives he can improve and heal with his care.
Ikiru
English title: Doomed
1952
Language: Japanese
Cast:
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along
with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing
nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning
in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and
spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him
unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office,
but finally decides he can make a difference through his job... After
Watanabe's death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over
the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in
his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe
Rashomon
1950
Language:
Cast:
In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the
notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is
captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the
wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brou
ght in to
allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. He tells yet another
completely different story. Finally, a woodcutter who found the body
reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again
completely different from the others.
Tengoku to Jigoku (High and Low) (1963)
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of
the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out
of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same
money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's
life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain loss of the company
vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for one distinct drama, and
an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.
Sanjuro (1962)
In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an
accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent.
However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin Sanjûrô Tsubaki (Toshirô
Mifune) saves them from the superintendent's men. The uncle of the
leader of the rebel clansmen, the Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yûnosuke Itô),
is kidnapped, and his wife and daughter are detained and made prisoner
of the superintendent, and he tries to force Mutsuta to write a fake
confession letter declaring being corrupt. Sanjûrô helps the group to
rescue the Chamberlain and hi
s family.
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Bimal Roy Centenary Film Festival
Synopsis of films
Bandini
Year: 1963
Language: Hindi | Black & White
Cast: Nutan, Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar
Set in the women's ward of a gloomy prison, the film reveals the tragic
circumstances that forced Kalyani to commit a heinous crime for which
she is serving a prison sentence. The young prison doctor, a man with
progressive views, would like to marry her but Kalyani cannot make her
decision. She cares for the freedom fighter who had made a deep
impression on her youthful, romantic mind. He promised to marry her and
then disappeared until their fateful meeting in a public hospital where
she discovers him by accident as a married man. Kalyani's moral dilemma
and her struggle for social legitimacy make a poignant tale of profound
significance in a culture where gender justice remains a distant dream.
Do Bigha Zameen
1953
Language: Hindi | Black & White | 142 mins
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy
Sambhu Mahato, like thousands from the Indian rural society, is a poor
peasant. For generations, like others, he has tilled the soil. After
years of drought, the peasants celebrate the monsoon. Sambhu's joy is
short-lived. The powerful village zamindar, waiting to grab his land,
puts up a fabricated case in the moffus
sil court. This ancestral land
is their only source of livelihood. Sambhu is ordered to settle his
earlier loans from the zamindar in just three months. Failure to do
this will cost him the land. The zamindar's unreasonable demand only
strengthens Sambhu's determination to save the land. He heads for
Calcutta where thousands migrate to earn. The great city overwhelms
them. One misfortune follows another. Sambhu lives in a basti with poor
migrants. An old rickshaw-puller takes him under his wings and teaches
him important lessons to pull the vehicle. Son, Kanhaiya, contributes
from his earnings as a shoe shine boy. Sambhu's wife, Parvati, works as
construction labour. With all this help, Sambhu is confident of victory
but a serious accident dries up his hard earned funds. In another
accident Kanhaiya looses his shoe shine box. They grow desperate as
time draws near to pay the zamindar's loan. After days of illness, when
Sambhu resumes work, he is stunned to find the unconscious body of his
wife, Parvati - knocked down by a speeding car. Kanhaiya tries his hand
at pickpocket and the poor landless peasant's family reunites once
again in the vast metropolis only to realize that their beloved land
has gone forever.
Madhumati
1958
Language: Hindi | Black & White
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayantimala, Pran, Johny Walker
Landslide forces Devendra (Dilip Kumar) and his doctor friend to take
r
efuge in an abandoned country mansion. In that unlit mysterious place
Devendra recalls his previous life and experiences in the same hill
station. He remembers how he had fallen in love with the beauty of the
hills and with lovely Madhumati, the daughter of a tribal chieftain.
Ugranarayan, the dissolute owner of the timber estate where Anand (or
Devendra) had worked as the manager abducts Madhumati. The incident
drove her to commit suicide. Inconsolable, Anand too commits suicide.
As the flashback comes to an end, Devendra's chauffeur brings news that
the road is clear but the train his wife was traveling in had met with
an accident. Devendra rushes to the station. His wife, Radha, who
resembles his lost love, Madhumati, is unharmed and safe with their
child.
Sujata
1959
Language: Hindi | Black & White
Cast: Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Shashikala, Lalita Pawar
Sujata, a little infant, is discovered after the outbreak of an
epidemic in a Harijan colony. She is adopted by the kind Upendranath
Choudhury and his wife, Charu. Sujata becomes a lively companion for
their only daughter, Rama. She grows up into a sensitive and charming
young woman. Adhir, the nephew of a relative, is being considered a
prospective bridegroom for Rama.
Adhir, on the other hand, falls in love with the serene Sujata. This
puts the Brahmin family in a terrible quandary. At that point Charu,
the foster mother, decides to20reveal Sujata's real identity, to make it
public that she is born of low caste parents. Unable to bear the
torment and strife in her foster family, Sujata decides to leave.
Strange circumstances prove that she is as much a daughter as the
biological one - and, it is only Sujata's blood that can save her
foster mother. In the end, all caste prejudices are thrown aside for a
happy ending.
Parakh
1960
Language: Hindi | Black & White
Cast: Sadhana, Vasanta Chowdhury, Motilal, Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis
The postmaster of Radhanagar, a remote village, receives a. cheque of 5
lakh from one Sir J.C. Roy. The cheque comes with strict conditions.
That it should be given to the most honest man of that village. The
simple postmaster spends a sleepless night worrying what to do with the
cheque. Finally he decides to call a meeting of five village elders and
put matters in their hand. The men fail to reach an agreement.
Overnight, the peace and quiet of the village is shattered. Greed
forces all the powerful men to proclaim their honesty. The poor
villagers are confused by the spirit of sacrifice and social service
displayed by all the candidates. Only the schoolmaster, Rajat, an
active social worker and very popular, does not indulge in such acts of
sham bravado. Some try to spread nasty rumors about Rajat. But in the
end it's the fair and honest schoolmaster who is rewarded.
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