The small town film fans challenging India's anthem order

One evening last week, some 200 people gathered on the roof of a shopping centre in a small town in the southern Indian state of Kerala to watch 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a gripping 2007 film on the last days of Communist rule in Romania.

"It was very well received by the audience, as most of our movies are," Anoop Kumaran of the eponymous Kodungallur Film Society, one of Kerala's 60-odd film clubs, told me.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41731378


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I V SASAI…the great film maker

I V SASAI…the great film maker, painter passed away today. The most valuable legend from Malayalam film industry became a still behind the frames of memories. He was considered as one of the best director from Malayalam who did numerous of films in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi genres from 1970s to 1990s. I had a deep connect with him as I recall those my early days that of fulfilling my Film Dreams. In 2001 during my Mathrubhumi days I wanted a headstart in film industry with my writings and short stories. My meeting with mr. I V Sashi was chnaced upon by our friend Mr. Shafeel (Producer). With beautiful welcome smile he inquired into my base in artistry and read my script fully. After reading the script he hugged me and fueled me with these words: “One day you will became the best film maker..I found some sharp observations in your script” these words were no less than an Oscar for me. That was my ever first attempt in film industry and He is the first person who read my script and valuated me. Today doing my first movie after 17 years of our meeting, i m heart broken that i couldn't complete the movie and take Sashi sirs blessings. Fate has played a dirty game against me, just a month before its completion, my first motivator in the industry is on a journey into the depths of everyones heart...... Sasi Sir…..I need your blessings….

THE WOMAN WHO STOLE MY LIFE

“The woman who stole my life” by marian keyes. One day back while I was in a unwind walk through the streets of the Kerala, ‘God’s own country’ India, I was attracted this title. I look for a while on the cover design of the book. I hope it will definitely give me something new for my reading experience. I took the book and turned the back cover, I found that ‘ keyes can deftly mix dark and light, tragic and comic in a way that only handful of writer can’ by Irish Times.

                It had given so much impression about the book with its title. More over Daily Mails says ‘Fans will be thrilled with this tightly plotted page-turner’. That was true words from daily mails. It is published by the famous publishing company PENGUIN with 99 Pound price. Actually PENGUIN BOOKS is worked its threads in USA, UK, CANADA, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, NEW ZEALAND, and SOUTH AFRICA. A penguin book is part of the Penguin Random house group of companies whose address can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com. This book is first published by Michel Joseph in  2014.

Litla Dimun

Litla Dimun is a small island between the islands of Suouroy and Stora Dimun in the Faroe Islands. It is the smallest of the main 18 islands, being less than 100 hectares (250 acres) in area, and is
the only one uninhabited. One of the most striking feature of this island is that it often remains covered in clouds. This type of cloud is known as Lenticular clouds, so called because it is shaped like a lens. Lenticular clouds are always stationary and when formed over mountain peaks or islands, like Litla Dimun, looks like a majestic hat.

SOLOMON KANE

Captain Solomon Kane is a brutally efficient 16th Century killing machine. Armed with his signature pistols, cutlass and rapier, he and his men unleash their bloodlust as they fight for England in war after war on all continents.

 As the story opens, Kane and his band of pillagers are carving a bloody path through hordes of defenders in an exotic city in northern Africa. But, when Kane decides to attack a mysterious nearby castle to plunder its rumored riches, his mission takes a fateful turn. 

One by one, Kane's men are picked off by demonic creatures until he alone is left to face the Devil's own Reaper--dispatched from the depths of Hell to lay claim to his hopelessly corrupt soul. Though Kane at last manages to escape, he knows that he now must redeem himself by renouncing violence and devoting himself wholly to a life of peace and purity.

 His newfound spirituality, however, is quickly put to the ultimate test when he begins his journey across an England ravaged by diabolical human Raiders controlled by a terrifying, masked Overlord

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Melbourne International Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) recently unveiled their complete program and boy is it a doozy. Spanning 17 days in August and featuring over 300 feature films, MIFF is Australia’s largest and oldest film festival.

On top of their earlier – First Glimpse and Cannes – announcements, the program is packed with exciting events from the opening night Australian premiere of musical The Sapphires to the closing night premiere of P.J. Hogan‘s (Muriel’s Wedding) latest, Mental, which stars Toni Collette and Anthony LaPaglia. Other anticipated Australian features include Save Your Legs, a Bollywood cricket comedy with Stephen Curry and Brendan Cowell, and 100 Bloody Acres, a local horror pic with Angus Sampson.

American film-maker and comic Bobcat Goldthwait will be a guest of the festival presenting his latest black comedy, God Bless America, while Benh Zeitlin, director of what looks to be the best film of 2012, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, is also visiting.

Read more: http://blog.quickflix.com.au/2012/07/12/melbourne-international-film-festival-unveil-2012-program/