Comments for The Case for Global Film

Comment on 15th Kolkata International Film Festival by Shubhajit Lahiri

Shubhajit Lahiri — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:21:04 +0000

I’d be really interested to know which all movies you managed to catch. I managed to watch just 2 because of some prior commitments, but a friend of mine managed to watch far more than that & he praised quite a few of them. And yeah, as you said, the budget was significantly reduced compared to list time, and that disappointed me a bit. Looking forward to your coverage of the week-long fest.

Comment on 15th Kolkata International Film Festival by Just Another Film Buff

Just Another Film Buff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:35:44 +0000

Wow! You were in Kolkata last week?

Comment on 15th Kolkata International Film Festival by OMAR

OMAR — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:54 +0000

Fantastic, I am very envious Roy. Will be eagerly waiting for your report.

Comment on Lakshya (India 2004) by neeraj singh bhandari

neeraj singh bhandari — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:29:44 +0000

i like army and my career is army

Comment on Red Riding: themes and characters by venicelion

venicelion — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:17:06 +0000

I need to check this — but it will have to wait a couple of weeks as I’m away from the novels.

Comment on Red Riding: themes and characters by Linden

Linden — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:58:29 +0000

As I recall in 1980 Hunter is shot and killed by Dick Alderman, and John Murphy. The latter is one of his own, being a colleague from Greater Manchester.i.e. essentially the same character as in the TV film but with a change of surname.

Comment on Eve’s Bayou (US 1997) by Pete Latarche

Pete Latarche — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:32:56 +0000

The self-confident composition and pacing of the film left me silently applauding.

But I was also interested in the response of critics to its evident success with different audiences and the attempt to put the film in one of the boxes labelled, “African-American”, “Mainstream” or “Crossover”.

And that led me to some fascinating and productive e-mail exchanges with Jari Honora of the LA Creole Association. And I have concluded that it is a Creole film with all the difficulty that presents both for the category makers and the white society behind the “mainstream”. True that ever since the Civil War the numbers of white Creole staying loyal to that cultural identity has been declining but none the less it remains a potent cultural identity that is not reducible to the “black”/”white” categories.

The location is specific in two senses: in Louisiana west of New Orleans in the “old” semi-rural Francophone heartland and in time, just before the upheavals of the civil rights movement and the southern white reaction to it.

And the Baptiste family is one of the od established Creole families. Before selling up and moving south, the West Indies raised, Paris educated, Jean Baptiste de Sable founded a trading settlement that grew up to become Chicago. This family has a grand history pre-dating the Union and the Federal imposed categories.

So in many ways this film is very precisly located outside the critical categories on race. That may be a very subtle cultural bomb Kasi Lemmons lit under those categories. It certainly would help explain the widespread, absolutely deserved audience acclaim.

Comment on Katalin Varga (Romania/UK/Hungary 2009) by venicelion

venicelion — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:14 +0000

Hi Alasdair

Katalin Varga will have only a limited release and it won’t get to Worcester Odeon or Vue unless you have a really enterprising manager. The nearest screening I could find to you was at Watershed in Bristol, but that finishes tonight, October 15. Your best bet is likely to be Oxford or Birmingham at some point. I’m trying to think where else there is a specialised cinema near you – Gloucester perhaps? After that, your best bet is to wait for the DVD release and then try a local film society for a ‘big screen’ showing.

Comment on Katalin Varga (Romania/UK/Hungary 2009) by Alasdair Macarthur

Alasdair Macarthur — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:39:44 +0000

Hello,

Can anyone tell where and when i can see this. I live near Worscester.

The storyline grips me and I also worked with acharity in the area about 5 years ago.

There will be many things in this film that will make me cry.

Thank you

Comment on Creation (UK 2009) by keith1942

keith1942 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:34:03 +0000

I think the comments about the film’s style and use of Annie’s Box was good. But I did think that the actual treatment of The Origin of the Species felt like an add-on.There has been an earlier film that treats the Beagle voyage, but I thought there was more scope for using this part of the story. And the actual writing reminded me of the approach of Doctor Zhivago, the film seemed more interested in family melodrama than science. Possibly understandable but a shame.
I assume the title of the film was a play on religion and authorship. But that made me feel that the film was trying to have it both ways.
As for the US audience, it would appear that they don’t understand Evolution, Socialism or the NHS. I do sympathise with the UK audience, because I don’t think the family drama in the film is strong enough on its own, but the film does not really enlighten viewers on the development of Darwin’s theory and analysis.