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  • Scorcese to receive Critics’ Choice award

    Scorcese to receive Critics’ Choice award

    MUMBAI: Martin Scorcese has been named recepient of the second Music+Film Award by the Broadcast Film Critics‘ Association. The award will be presented to Scorcese at the Critics‘ Choice Movie Awards on January 12.


    The award, according to a BFCA press release, “honours a single filmmaker who has touched audiences through cinematic storytelling, and has heightened the impact of films through the brilliant use of source and original music.” The inaugural Music+Film Award was given to Quentin Tarantino.


    Scorcese, whose latest film is Hugo, is known for his use of rock songs in films like Mean Streets, GoodFellas and The Departed. He has also directed a string of concert films and rock documentaries, from The Last Waltz and Shine A Light to documentaries like No Direction Home and George Harrison: Living In The Material World.


    With a voting body of more than 250 television, radio and online critics, the show is known to be a reliable predictor of Academy Award winners.

  • Sacha Baron Cohen in Django Unchained

    Sacha Baron Cohen in Django Unchained

    MUMBAI: Sacha Baron Cohen, who is known for his film Borat, is the latest to join the star-studded cast of Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained. Cohen is in final negotiations to play a gambler who buys Django‘s wife as a female companion.


    Django Unchained follows the story of Django, a freed slave who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter Ace Woody becomes a bounty hunter himself.


    The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio as the film‘s villain, Calvin Candie; Jamie Foxx as Django; Christoph Waltz as Ace Woody, the bounty hunter on Candie‘s tail; Kerry Washington as Django‘s wife, Broomhilda and Samuel L. Jackson as an outspoken slave.

  • Jackson to team with Tarantino again

    Jackson to team with Tarantino again

    MUMBAI: Samuel L. Jackson will team up with Quentin Tarantino in the director‘s next project Django Unchained.
     
    Jackson will play Stephen, a house slave and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s right-hand man.
     
    This is for the fifth time that Jackson will be teaming up with Tarantino. They had earlier worked together in Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol. 2 and Inglourious Basterds.
     
    The film is slated to go on the floors next year.