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  • Adoor Gopalakirshnan gets retrospective & first Masterclass at Osianama

    Adoor Gopalakirshnan gets retrospective & first Masterclass at Osianama

    NEW DELHI: The first-ever retrospective in Mumbai of the films of famed filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan and his first-ever Masterclass will be held this month as part of Jashn Osianama.

     

    The Gopalakrishnan retrospective will be from 14 – 18 September at the Liberty theatre in Mumbai with his Masterclass on 19 September.

     

    The event includes a World Cinema Context of some of Gopalakrishnan’s favourite cinematic masterpieces so as to contextualise his cinema a bit more meaningfully.

     

    Two important exhibitions (along with guided tours) from the Osian’s Archive Collection on the “South Indian Contribution to the Hindi Cinematic History” and “Glimpses of Genius: Kurosawa & Ray” accompany these events from 19 to 24 September.

     

    The first Indian Cultural Renaissance Panel Discussion with Gopalakrishnan, Girish Kasaravalli, Dr. Kanak Rele, Gieve Patel, Sen Kapadia & Neville Tuli will take place on 18 September.

     

    Gopalakrishnan’s films being screened include Mukhamukham, Kodiyettam, Kalamandalam Gopi, The Dance of the Enchantress, Ellipathayam, Kathapurshan, Vidheyan and Mathilukal.

     

    In addition, there will be a screening of Pather Panchali by the master craftsman of cinema Satyajit Ray, and Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu by Vipin Vijay.

     

    Global cinema screenings include Rashomon by Akira Kursosawa, Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu, Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky, The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, and Pick Pocket by Robert Bresson.

  • Mumbai fest lines up award-winning films from Cannes

    Mumbai fest lines up award-winning films from Cannes

    MUMBAI: A few award-winning films from the Cannes Critics week and the National Film Awards spanning the last 50 years are to be screened at the 13th Mumbai Film Festival.

    The organisers of the Film Festival have created a special section to celebrate 50 years of Cannes Critics week along with National Award winning debut features.

    A few of the international classics that are to be screened in this section include Valeria Gaii Guermanika‘s Everybody Dies But Me, Ken Loach‘s Kes, Jerzy Skolimowski‘s Walkover amongst others. The films that have won the Indian National Film Awards including Adoor Gopalakirshnan‘s Swayamvaram, Shyam Benegal‘s Ankur‘ and Girish Kasaravalli‘s Ghatasraddha will also be screened.
     
    Mumbai Film Festival, Director Srinivasan Naryanan said, "By juxtaposing the Cannes Critics Week award winning films along with the Indian debut features which won National Film Awards, we are trying to create an analytical study of the films that have created trends abroad and in India, the narrative structure and the technical aspects which went into the making of these path breaking films."

    The Mumbai Film Festival has also decided to invite the directors of the selected films. "We will be inviting the filmmakers. It will be a treat for cinema connoisseurs to be able to interact with these cinema legends. We are only happy to be paying tribute to these masters," observed Narayanan.