chandragrohon : the lunar eclipse ( bengali : চন্দ্রগ্রহণ ) , is a bangladeshi film based on a short story written by indian bengali author syed mustafa siraj .

the film was released 2008 and younger director murad parvez first time directed the film .

the film features riaz , shohana saba , and champa in lead roles along with shahiduzzaman selim , ks firoz , dilara jaman , kohinur , gazi rakayet , and azom faruk supporting role .

in 2008 , the film won three national film awards and including other four awards .

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chandragrohon <EOT> download bangla movie chandragrohon videos . watch bangla movie chandragrohon videos . free download & watch bangla movie chandragrohon videos online .

the film chandragrohon won national film award and also other four awards totally seven sections .

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murad parvez is a bangladeshi film and television director . he was director of chandragrohon and brihonnola and directed many tv serials in bangladesh .

in a film " chandragrohon " , she sang " tomare dekhilo porano bhoriya " with habib wahid , and she sang " sparsh " in a film " projapoti " .

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emon saha is a bangladeshi composer , musician and singer . he earned four bangladesh national film awards for his music composition and direction in the films chandragrohon , kusum kusum prem , ghetuputra komola , pita and meyeti ekhon kothay jabe .

in the big canvas of the screenplay of chandragrohon , parvez has depicted diversified characters who belong to the downtrodden people . through these characters he takes the viewers to a crisis that challanges our rational thinking . the story is neither unrealistic nor supranatural , but very practical : will anybody allow his or her son to marry an illegitimate girl ? may be in the conventional dhaliwood movies , the son , ignoring his parents makes it happen , but in chandragrohon it does not happen and the incident drives the protagonist to insanity .

in the big canvas of the screenplay of chandragrohon , parvez has depicted diversified characters of downtrodden people . through these characters he takes the viewers to a crisis that strikes our rationality . and the story is not absurd nor supra natural , but very practical : will anybody allow his or her son to marry an illegitimate girl ? may be in the conventional dhaliwood movies the son ignoring his parents makes it happen , but in chandragrohon kashu ( riaz ) cannot do that which drives the lovely phalani ( sohana saba ) to insanity .

chandragrohon film songs were composed by habib wahid and imon saha . the film song written by kabir bakul , jewel mahmud , mohammad rafiquzzaman , and arko mostofa . total 8 songs . singers are habib wahid , samina chowdhury , nancy , dinat jahan munni and subir nandi .

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she started out with television and made a mark in films soon after . sohana saba has acted in several bangladeshi ventures like khelaghar - doll house , chandragrohon , priyotomeshu - love and repulsion and brihonnola - the poisoning sap . the actress is now a part of ayan chakraborti’s debut film shororipu .

chandragrohon film songs were composed by habib wahid and imon saha . [ 1 ] the film song written by kabir bakul , jewel mahmud , mohammad rafiquzzaman , and arko mostofa . total 8 songs . [ 5 ] singers are habib wahid , samina chowdhury , nancy , dinat jahan munni and subir nandi .

chandragrohon fiwm songs were composed by habib wahid and imon saha . [ 1 ] the fiwm song written by kabir bakuw , jewew mahmud , mohammad rafiqwzzaman , and arko mostofa . totaw 8 songs . [ 5 ] singers are habib wahid , samina chowdhury , nancy , dinat jahan munni and subir nandi .

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chandragrohon : the lunar eclipse ( bengali : চন্দ্রগ্রহণ ) , is a bangladeshi film based on a short story written by indian bengali author syed mustafa siraj . the film was released 2008 and younger director murad parvez first time . . . jump up ^ " chandragrahan receives top award at rainbow film festival " . the daily star . urltoken

he also has composed songs for different film soundtracks such as hridoyer kotha , akash chowa bhalobasha , chandragrohon , i love you , eito prem , third person singular number , amar ache jol , and many others . wahid makes songs that " has the essence from the roots of bangla music " , says kumar bishwajit while recording a song under the direction of wahid in a movie called projapoti .

he also has composed songs for movies such as hridoyer kotha , akash chowa bhalobasha , chandragrohon , " i love you " , " eito prem " , " third person singular number " , amar ache jol , etc . habib makes songs that " has the essence from the roots of bangla music " , says kumar bishwajit while recording a song under direction of habib wahid in a movie called projapoti .

ershad kamol it is a common allegation against bangladeshi filmdom that these days not many aesthetically rich movies are released targetting the masses . only a very few filmmakers are coming up with new ideas and rich presentations as well . young filmmaker murad parvez ' s debut feature film chandragrohon is one such production worth watching . after two weeks of remarkable success at star cineplex , the movie is now being screened at the theatres outside dhaka city .

he had the desire to grab the national award for his debut film . however , winning eight national awards in seven categories for a film is definitely more than any debutant filmmaker could dream about . but this is exactly what happened to young filmmaker murad parvez , whose debut feature film chandragrohon grabbed eight national awards . the delighted director , however , claimed that although he had the thirst to win the award , the results were more than his expectation .

chandragrohon , adapted from the narratives titled ranighater brittanto by syed mustafa siraj , is different from the stereotypical storyline of bangladeshi commercial cinemas . it deals with the people living at the kheyaghat ( the bank of a river where people go for boats to cross the river ) . for business purposes , people from different corners of the country live in such areas , the ghats are also infamous for criminal activities . however , murad parvez ' s intention is not to feature this sordid side as is the tradition in dhaliwood based movies .

chandragrohon , adapted from narratives titled ranighater brittanto by syed mustafa siraj , is different from the stereotypical storyline of bangladeshi commercial movies . it deals with the people living at the kheyaghat ( a common place beside a river where people go for boats to cross the river ) . for business purposes , people from different corners of the country live in such areas , even the ghats are infamous places for criminal activities . however , murad parvez ' s intention is not to feature extra - judicial activities following the traditional dhaliwood based movies .

" i read the story ranighater brittanto in 2004 to make a tv drama , " says the award winning film director , screen playwright and dialogue writer murad parvez , who is basically a tv drama maker , " but , actor saba , who performed the protagonist in chandragrohon , suggested that i make this a film . surprisingly the chance came when azam faruk , a uk based businessman , approached me showing desire to produce a aesthetically rich movie in bangladesh . i gave him the storyline and he was so impressed that he decided to make a big budget movie taking risk of making the film an inexperienced director like me . "

sohana saba is a one of the popular bangladeshi tv actress , model , director , and producer . she is very cute , hot , beautiful and talented actress . she acted many tv dramas and movies . and her popular tv dramas were nupur , alokon , wow , khoyeri dana shalikher , mon , ekti diary , serious ekta kotha ache , odrissho manob , pabon mazhi , shei rateu bristi chilo , valobashi tai emoni etc . sohana saba also acted many movies aaina , khelaghor , chandragrohon , priyotomeshu , brihonnola , shororipu etc . sohana saba received meril prothom alo awards for her outstanding performance . sohana saba director - playwright murad parvez ( 2007 - 2015 ) . now the couple separated .

shahiduzzaman selim : shahiduzzaman selim is one of the most famous and successful television actor and director in bangladesh . his debut tv drama was jonaki jwoley ( 1989 ) . he acted several tv dramas and some movies . his most successful tv dramas were mamuli bepar , bhalobashi koto – bhalobashi na to , rong mohol , juarir bou , ononto prodip , lilaboti , jhamela nonstop , chorer bou , dokshinayoner din , sab badha periye , aji bijon ghore , pattayar pathe neyamat , mongol chhaya , jiboner oli goli etc . his acted some movie mad _ e in bangladesh , chandragrohon , chorabali , devdas , podmo patar jol , oggatonama . shahiduzzaman selim won meril prothom alo awards for kanta and bangladesh national film awards for chorabali . mahfuz ahmed was born january 5 in tangail , bangladesh . shahiduzzaman selim was married another actress rosey siddique and the couples have two daughters , toma and sreema .

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postscript : given the very nature of the archives of the hungryalist movement , it is almost impossible to write this essay in english . poetry as a form demands close reading , an attention to language and details , in a way it’s almost impossible to accomplish in translation . consequently , i have chosen to write in more details only about poems that are available online – in english translations . at the same time , i have tried to bear in mind poems that exist solely in bengali . thanks to goirick brahmachari for directing me towards the translated archives at the sunflower collective . readers who read bengali might also benefit from trying to get hold of a copy of one of recent issues of the bengali little magazine chandragrohon , devoted to phalguni roy . for readers interested in probing further into the gender politics of the poem ‘stark electric jesus’ , please read debaprasad bandopadhyay’s essay in the first book - fair issue of the little magazine , aainanagar . i am profoundly grateful to debaprasad - da for articulating in writing what i and some of my friends have discussed in private for ages . and , in doing so , debaprasad - da’s essay has contributed immensely to the developments of my own arguments on the gender politics of the hungryalists .

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the national film award for the year 2008 was announced on february 11 . murad parvez individually got three awards : best director award , best screenplay award and best dialogue writer award . azam faruk got the best producer award for producing the movie . imon saha got the best music director award for the picture . and three actors also got national awards in two catagories performing in chndragrahan : zahiruddin piar as the best anti - hero character and dilara zaman and champa for the best female supporting actors .

" till then i was just a director and screen playwright of tv plays , who made only a few tv drama serials and single episode plays . so , i was lucky in this sense that even many eminent directors in the country don ' t get a producer willing to make a big budget movie . but in my case good luck knocked on my door and i did not have to look for my producer . "

that incident stimulated parvez ' s long cherished desire to make a film . leaving all his activities he totally concentrated on this project . " my only intention was to make an aesthetically rich movie not only to win a few awards but also to entertain the people . often the award winning films don ' t necessarily entertain people ; on the other hand , the mainstream entertaining films in most cases are not asthetically rich , rather contain cheap entertainment . "

murad parvez says that the film was made during a month - long residential camp in the remote areas to portray the outdoor scenes authentically . " the key challenge of the movie was to portray a realistic presentation of a ghat scene of the 1960s . in this connection , i chose a location beside the river atrai in a remote village called chandrapur in narail district . throughout the day we used to shoot and in the night we slept in a ship . and i must admit that i got enormous support from all the actors and crew . even the actors have already got their feedback by grabbing three national awards for this movie , " says murad parvez .

but , it was not the only location that made it such a success . in fact , the film was made in 32 locations to develop the storyline authentically , since in the film the protagonist ' s character and the ghat develop along parallel lines : in advancement of time a bridge is built on the river , which changes the socio - economic structure of the ghat . many locals become jobless and subsequently decide to migrate .

but was the film commercially successful ? " no , " replies murad , " due to three major causes we could not make money . first of all the film was released just a few days before the national elections and people were very tense due to the political movements prior to the elections . secondly , due the inexperience , the producer faced problem with the distributors . and , of course the target audience , the middle class , do not go to movie theatres considering the insecurity and dirty atmosphere of the existing movie theatres in the country . as a result the film ran only in nine theatres in major cities . "

the success in his debut movie has boosted young filmmaker murad parvez to go onto his next project . he is now preparing for his next film titled daur . " it is completely a commercial thriller for the entertainment of the masses , " informs parvez .

at the same time murad also wants to make tv plays to continue his practice . murad says , " in bangladeshi perspective there is no option except making tv plays for a maker to practice and experiment on his technical aspects of filmmaking , since we don ' t have any film institute . "

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phalani ' s mother shokhina pagli , a mentally disordered woman , became pregnant . but , who could be the father ? everybody suspects each other . subsequently a girl was born and named as phalani which means ' discarded ' . everybody at the locality collectively takes responsibility of the newborn baby , but when the girl was only three years old her mother died and the locals handed over the responsibility of the girl to an elderly woman named moyra mashi ( dilara zaman ) .

phalani ' s character and the ghat develop parallelly in the movie . in advancement of time a bridge is built on the river , which changes the socio - economic structure of the ghat . many locals become jobless and subsequently decide to migrate .

meanwhile phalani becomes a nice looking teenager having a romantic relationship with kashu , a driver by profession of the same locality . when their romance becomes known , the elders of the locality who treat orphan phalani as their child , decide to arrange their marriage before migration .

this parallel development of the plot has been handled quite efficiently by murad parvez . from the very first scene , in a rainy dark night a few people are wandering around , has aptly created the suspense . and the director has maintained the tempo through his remarkable directorial compositions , handling of montage and shot distribution . his use of symbols using natural elements to portray human psyche deserves plaudits . in fact , it would not be exaggeration saying a real rustic life has portrayed in the movie . doing that he has used all the leading technical hands and actors of the country .

but , the movie loses the tempo when the love affair develops between phalani and kashu . the director could have avoided many scenes such as kashu ' s imagination of phalani dancing like a ' princess ' at the jatra scene . more than that many scenes have abruptly appeared . and the weakest part of the movie is that the climax ( when kashu ' s father abul with his ill motive for stopping the marriage of his son with claims of himself being the father of phalani ) has not been presented effectively .

however , the most powerful feature of the movie is bold acting by the cast members . dilara zaman as moyra mashi , azam faruk as a marwari ghat owner chowbeji , ks feroz as abul , shahiduzzaman selim as ismail driver , kohinur as madan and gazi rakayat as shambhu presented their respective characters efficiently . as the protagonist ' s character sohana saba - - who has already performed the central character in many feature films made by independent filmmakers - - is impressive in the sequences that feature happiness . but there are signs of struggle in her portrayal of pathos and crisis . popular film actor riaz ' s performance , at best , can be described as average . similarly , popular film actor champa has not managed well her challenging character of a mentally disordered beggar . her gestures appear exaggerated .

mahfuzur rahman ' s cinematography taufiq hossain chowdhury ' editing deserve plaudits . eminent art dirctor uttam guho has successfully created a ghat area of 1960s . music composers imon shaha and habib also deserve kudos for their melodious scores .

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raaj and reshmi fall in love , despite having a belligerent past between their families .

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a small market named ranighat is situated at river bank . a madwoman sokhina lives under a tree in the market . everyday many people visits the market and some of them had physical relation with her and she becomes pregnant . moira masi looks after her . sokhina gives birth a girl and died after few years . till then moira masi rears up the girl . the girl got no name and everyone calls her falani . falani grows up and gets closer to kashu . everyone in the market wants them get married . but kashu ' s father disagrees at this and confess his sin to falani that brings her same consequence like her mother .

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a mad woman ( champa ) lived near the marwari ghat . people from the market had physical relationship with her at nights . as a result , she became pregnant . moyra masi ( dilara zaman ) starts to look after her in this circumstances . one rainy night , she gives birth a little girl and dies on the birth bed . moyra masi looks after the little girl . the girl ( sohana saba ) does not get any name and so everyone calls her falani .

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the 33rd national film awards , presented by ministry of information , bangladesh to felicitate the best of bangladeshi cinema released in the year 2008 . the government announced the names of 24 artistes in 23 categories for the national film award in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the country’s film industry . [ 1 ] a eleven - member jury board prepared a list of 15 films that could be awarded out of 17 films in january 4 , 2010 . [ 2 ]

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september 24 , 2009 : nasa scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon . instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted , but still relatively small . hydroxyl , a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom , also was found in the lunar soil . the findings were published in thursday ' s edition of the journal science .

the observations were made by nasa ' s moon mineralogy mapper , or m 3 ( " m - cubed " ) , aboard the indian space research organization ' s chandrayaan - 1 spacecraft . nasa ' s cassini spacecraft and nasa ' s epoxi spacecraft have confirmed the find .

above : a very young lunar crater as viewed by nasa ' s moon mineralogy mapper . on the right , the distribution of water - rich minerals is shown in false - color blue . [ more ]

" water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists for a very long time , " said jim green , director of the planetary science division at nasa headquarters in washington . " this surprising finding has come about through the ingenuity , perseverance and international cooperation between nasa and the india space research organization . "

' s state - of - the - art spectrometer measured light reflecting off the moon ' s surface at infrared wavelengths , splitting the spectral colors of the lunar surface into small enough bits to reveal a new level of detail in surface composition . when the m

science team analyzed data from the instrument , they found the wavelengths of light being absorbed were consistent with the absorption patterns for water molecules and hydroxyl .

" when we say ' water on the moon , ' we are not talking about lakes , oceans or even puddles , " explained carle pieters , m 3 ' s principal investigator from brown university , providence , r . i . " water on the moon means molecules of water and hydroxyl that interact with molecules of rock and dust specifically in the top millimeters of the moon ' s surface .

the m 3 team found water molecules and hydroxyl at diverse areas of the sunlit region of the moon ' s surface , but the water signature appeared stronger at the moon ' s higher latitudes . water molecules and hydroxyl previously were suspected in data from a cassini flyby of the moon in 1999 , but the findings were not published until now .

above : data from nasa ' s moon mineralogy mapper . the image on the left shows albedo , or the sunlight reflected from the surface of the moon . the image on the right shows where infrared light is absorbed by water and hydroxyl molecules . the water signature is strongest at cool , high latitudes near the poles . the blue arrow indicates goldschmidt crater , a large feldspar - rich region with a higher water and hydroxyl signature . image credit : isro / nasa / jpl - caltech / brown univ . [ more ]

" the data from cassini ' s vims instrument and m 3 closely agree , " said roger clark , a u . s . geological survey scientist in denver and member of both the vims and m 3 teams . " we see both water and hydroxyl . while the abundances are not precisely known , as much as 1 , 000 water molecule parts - per - million could be in the lunar soil . to put that into perspective , if you harvested one ton of the top layer of the moon ' s surface , you could get as much as 32 ounces of water . "

for additional confirmation , scientists turned to the epoxi mission while it was flying past the moon in june 2009 on its way to a november 2010 encounter with comet hartley 2 . the spacecraft not only confirmed the vims and m 3 findings , but also expanded on them .

" with our extended spectral range and views over the north pole , we were able to explore the distribution of both water and hydroxyl as a function of temperature , latitude , composition , and time of day , " said jessica sunshine of the university of maryland . sunshine is epoxi ' s deputy principal investigator and a scientist on the m 3 team . " our analysis unequivocally confirms the presence of these molecules on the moon ' s surface and reveals that the entire surface appears to be hydrated during at least some portion of the lunar day . "

the discovery of water molecules and hydroxyl on the moon raises new questions about the origin of " moon water " and its effect on lunar mineralogy . answers to these questions will be studied and debated for years to come .

jaya ahsan , who started out as a model in the late ’90s , debuted in films with dubshatar .

though the film was a dud , her acting was widely appreciated . jaya won the first national award in bangladesh for the film guerrilla . her next national award came for the movie chorabali . the actress , who has been making waves in the neighbouring country , was noticed by directors in bengal too . after her first tolly film aborto , jaya has a couple of projects lined up . she has wrapped up rajkahini and is currently shooting for ekti bangali bhuter goppo . up next will be kantho .

one of the most sought after actresses in bangladesh , mahiya mahi debuted in 2012 with bhalobashar rong . though her first tollywood flick romeo vs juliet failed to impress the masses , the girl’s acting chops didn’t go unnoticed . now back in bangladesh , mahi is busy with a couple of ventures , agnee 2 being one of them .

a model - turned - actress , kusum sikder started out as a singer before winning a pageant that brought her overnight stardom . after acting in several tv dramas , kusum went on to debut in films . her launchpad , gohiner shabdo , brought her the national award in bangladesh . she is now part of goutam ghose’s shankhachil , opposite prosenjit chatterjee .

having started out as a model , dilruba yasmeen ruhee was quick to join tv . her debut drama was oporichita , based on tagore’s short story . her role as a hindu woman in her debut movie sangram was widely appreciated . ruhee played a model in glamour starring parambrata chatterjee .

habib wahid is is one of a popular bangladeshi singer & composer . people often called him a . r rahman of bd . he attended south breeze school in dhanmondi . later took audio engineering graduate from london’s school of audio engineering . ferdous wahid one of a most popular singer during the 1970s and 1980s , his father .

he says . “while in london , i worked with a dj and worked on a remix for virgin records with nitin soni under the name nasha experience . ”

“krishno” was his first album where he added a new dimension in the bengali song history with adding contemporary techno and urban beats . the album was released in 2003 .

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gulshan ara akter champa is a bangladeshi film and television actress . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

champa was born in the 1950s in village : bijoy nagar jessore district , khulna division , bangladesh . her birth date is 5 january .

she is the younger sister of actresses bobita and shuchanda . [ 4 ] champa is fifth eldest in a family of three sisters and three brothers .

champa started her career in 1981 with the btv drama dub satar . [ 5 ] she soon received offers for other dramatic roles , and appeared in sahabjadir kalo nekab , akash bariye dao , khola daroja , ekti joddo anno ekti meye , apoya , ekhane nongor , and others . [ 6 ]

( 1986 ) , directed by shibli sadik . this film was produced by her sister shuchanda , and all three sisters ( shucanda , babita , and champa ) appear in the film . champa plays a police inspector . champa was the most popular actress in the period 1990 to 1996 . she is considered as the '

champa married businessman shahidul islam khan in 1982 . they have one daughter named esha [ 7 ] [ 8 ] champa ' s relatives include omar sunny ( nephew ) , moushumi ( niece in law ) , and riaz ( cousin ) .

winner : best co - actress national film award . directed by chashi nazrul islam

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the term ‘hungry generation’ came to me in the same way its other temporal counterpart – the naxalbari rebellion – made its way into my consciousness . as a legend , as lived memories , stories , broken promises , fragments . in other words , as indirect references . there is also the other , seemingly obvious connection . in everyday bengali middle - class intellectual consciousness , both naxalbari and hungryalist poetics have come to be associated with notions of unsullied rebellious spirits , youthful dissent , experimentation with forms , denial of received forms and rejection in general . to put it simply , radicalism . more specifically , myths of radicalism . this is what it means to come after . for those of us who came of age in the kolkata of late 1980s and early to mid - 1990s , life was a series of aftermaths . the aftermath of naxalbari , the aftermath of hungryalism , the aftermath of ipta , the aftermath of the betrayal of electoral left , the aftermath of the collapse of the soviet empire . aftermaths , by definition , are also the fertile grounds for the births of the myths . precisely because , the events themselves are gone , over .

and that kind of aftermathness , often lived through myths and the memories of others , brings with it its own challenges . removed from the headiness that inevitably accompanies events such as naxalbari or the state - sponsored censure of hungryalist poetics , these aftermaths demand new evaluations . the aftermath transforms yesterday’s rebel into today’s pitiable icon . the aftermath transforms yesterday’s icon into today’s tired office - goer . the aftermath tears off the mask , the veil , leaving most things naked and open , demanding new analyses and new interpretations .

it is , therefore , not surprising that what provided the hungryalist poets their critical edge – the unabashed and repetitive writing of middle - class male alienation and rage – becomes the most institutionalized voice of bengali poetry in the period following 1977 . by the time i came to any conscious reading of contemporary bengali poetry , as an overtly nerdy , overtly politicized , and unapologetically feminist teenager , growing up in a home where neither naxalbari nor hungryalism was out of bounds for adult discussion , the hungryalist alienated voice , often expressed through an unmediated , unreflexive ‘i’ , was the normative voice of bengali poetry . to be a bengali poet was to write about the inability to find oneself in one’s social environment . to be a bengali poet was to mourn about the inability to love and be loved , a feeling often expressed through the much fetishized bengali word ‘oprem . ’ to be a bengali poet was to be lost in a world of default middle - classness . to be a bengali poet was to reiterate again and again the inability to rebel against one’s middle - classness . a gendered script , expressed most often through a neatly distinguished binary between men and women , masculinity and femininity , would round up this dominant script of alienation through which most bengali poets have written themselves , and are still writing themselves . there is nothing ‘anti - establishment’ about this voice . in fact , it is so thoroughly entrenched in post - 1970s bengali poetry that it is difficult to find any other mode of expression . a mode of expression that would not make documentation of middle - class alienation its mainstay .

from the vantage point of hindsight , it is indeed interesting to witness the genesis of this alienation - poetics within hungryalism , and thus also to historicize it . here , in these hungryalist poems , most of them somewhat co - terminous with naxalbari , alienation is its own political category . alienation is not a beginning point , alienation is not a means to an end . rather , alienation is the ‘real’ thing in itself . consequently , the poems themselves are converted into textual and symbolic spaces wherein this political category is given concrete linguistic form , reiterated again and again . the obsessive repetition of the writing of this alienation becomes a celebration of alienation . and this celebration of alienation becomes a form of rebellion in itself . think of this poem by shubho acharya :

a close reading of the poem reveals a strange stasis , the kind of stasis which is constitutive of most alienationist poetics . there are images from the everyday social life we know – the dog , the lamppost on the street , the narrator on the beach , the empty pocket . these are signifiers of a lower middle - class existence , which bring memories of post - independence disillusionment and social crises into the body of the poem – memories that provided the materialist foundation for much of the radical social and cultural movements of the era , including naxalbari . but the poem is hardly a mere list of images . there is an attempt at an ideological reading of the time of its origin – “words like ‘love’ and ‘death’ are utilised for sport . ” this line almost crumbles under the pressure of its own moralism . because it is so invested in a kind of trite , commonsensical moralism , it also misses out on the chance to put any ideological , sociological or imaginative pressure on its language . although like most literary , cultural or political collectives , the hungryalists did not speak in a homogenous or monolithic voice , and deeper readings of the movement’s archives would reveal certain internal fractures , if one could make a quick generalization about the dominant tone of the hungryalist social critique , it is this : hungryalist poems often predicate themselves on easy moralisms , operating under the guise of ideological and political critique . because the default effect of the hungryalist poems is constituted by rage – and youthful rage at that – and poking fun at the more dominant bhadralok moralism , their own moralisms appear as cloaked terrain . in other words , what has often been described as a form of rebellious aesthetics in hungryalist poetics is based on an extremely weak sociological eye .

indeed , acharya’s poem provides its own understanding of rebellion – “a distinctive self - contradiction i advance it can also / be called retreating there is no fear of being ambushed . ” coupled with the two concluding lines – “with the other i chuck the fearless chin / of the world , saying , ‘dance little lady dance’– . ” the self - contradiction does not explode under its own pressure . it does not move forward , it does not create any desire for change . if there is any transformation that happens in this poem , it is one of retreat . almost in the same way , the ‘chucking’ hinted at in the closing lines of the poem , although an assault on existing reality , does not produce anything other than the narrator retreating into his own inwardness – the role of a privileged spectator . maybe it is even an irony - conscious spectator , one whose being is constituted by a social environment of both the failures of liberalisms and left philosophies . yet it is a retreat nonetheless , the consciousness of which the poem records in strange ways .

thus , there is the word ‘ambush’ , residing within the poem as a double - sequitur . on the one hand , it operates as a grave reminder of the time of the emergence of the hungryalist poetics , when incidences of ‘ambush’ – a term that brings into the poem’s body the realities of state violence – had reconstituted the lives of the bengali middle class to a certain extent . precisely because of that ambush - ridden everyday , the temporality which hungryalists share with naxalbari , the word ‘ambush’ exists in the poem as a reminder of its own fucked - up politics of retreating . a deeper examination of the archives of both movements would show the relationship between hungryalist poetics and naxalbari politics to be ambiguous . while this is an issue which demands more in - depth close readings , analyses and reinterpretations of the cultural productions that emerged from both movements , hungryalist poetics nonetheless brings up an unresolved issue : what are the limits of the category of alienation during times of social and political turbulence ? can alienation ever exist as an autonomous political entity , and what are the responsibilities – social , political and aesthetic – of the alienated ?

yes , i am that reader who is never satisfied by mere alienation . in a way , i take the idea of alienation seriously . too seriously , almost . consequently , i see alienation as the beginning point of something bigger , but never an end in itself . as a result , most of the hungryalist poems appear too status - quoist to me . too tame . yes , i repeat : tame and status - quoist . as an individual who has tried to stay involved with activisms of some kind for most of my life , i am politically and emotionally familiar with the terrain that the hungryalists are marking for themselves . a radical - left student organizer during the mid - 1990s – an inconvenient time globally to call oneself leftist – i understand the critique of both the electoral left and the radical left that the hungryalists are relaying . yet the critique they present remains the critique of those who have moved away from the messy terrain of everyday organizing of any kind . in other words , hungryalism remains the aesthetics of the shirkers .

no , i do not expect their poems to change the world . but i do expect their poems to provide me with new ways of seeing the world . this is precisely where the hungryalists have failed . hungryalists did not provide me with a language to understand the specter of the privatization of education that faced most of my generation . hungryalists did not provide me with a language to understand neoliberal economic violence or for that matter the violence of its liberal forebear . hungryalists did not provide me with a language to understand more deeply the complex histories of oppression and identities in this world . hungryalists did not provide me with a language to engage more deeply with the multi - faceted realities of human resistance to oppression . hungryalists did not provide me with a language to understand the global failures of the left .

at most , the hungryalists provided me with a language to complain . at most , the hungryalists provided me with a language to document symptoms . at most , the hungryalists provided me with a language to trivialize everything considered sacred by mainstream society . but that has never been enough for me . i didn’t need any hungryalist to teach me that poverty is dehumanizing , or that the state is capable of breaking and killing . i didn’t need hungryalists to figure out the loopholes and contradictions of bhadralok morality .

yes , i want poems to do more . i want art to do more . i want literature to do more than become a list of gripes and remonstrations . consequently , the hungryalists represent to me a profound failure of the bengali radical imagination , a profound failure of the bengali middle class to fashion a radical poetics . it is not difficult to understand why the linchpin of the movement , the alienated lyrical ‘i’ , alternately angry and sad , stands within the contemporary archives of bengali literature as a thoroughly appropriated category . after all , we middle class bongs love us some good alienation . it makes us feel edgy . it makes us feel sensitive , while leaving the central pillars of our structural existence untouched .

at the same time , there is something in these poems that would mark them as different from the lyricization of alienation in contemporary bengali . a certain sense of urgency , a certain breathlessness that is difficult to quantify . a certain sense that this world is a disaster , and nothing but disaster . a certain intuitive understanding that the bhadralok morality , which has dominated the social and creative life of post - independence bengal , needs to be torn apart . a form of raw rebellion against authoritarianism and social hypocrisy pervades these poems , in their formal experimentation with lines , white spaces , and punctuation . yes , there are moments when i am moved by them . yet this emotional appeal never lasts long . my relationship to hungryalist poetics is one of profound alienation . and that alienation stems from something profoundly simple : my own efforts to find myself within the poems of the hungry archives .

in other words , i am asking , what place has been accorded to women within the hungryalist texts . i will begin with a generalization . women appear in hungryalist poems as bodies – sexual bodies – and nothing but bodies on which desire is projected . in other words , if my alienation from the hungryalism was , to a certain extent , prompted by the fact that much of my political and aesthetic quests remained outside of the boundaries of a hungryalist aesthetics , it is also true that the hungryalist poets could not really imagine that someone like me might be their implied audience .

any sign of female sexual agency is vilified , mocked and ultimately turned into a site of male sexual violation . one can’t really say that the hungryalists write female sexual identity in terms of the virgin - whore dichotomy , because to be a woman with an independent sexual will is to be permanently reduced to the status of a whore within hungryalist poetics . like most of its social analysis , this particular way of reading women reeks of bhadralok moralism , cloaked in the language of male alienationist radicalism . what is absent is any political understanding of marriage as a social institution , of patriarchy as a socio - political category , and of sexuality as socio - cultural constructs of masculinity and femininity . any consciousness other than the sexual kind is automatically denied to women .


where it 's at is a 1969 american drama film written and directed by garson kanin .

the film stars david janssen , rosemary forsyth , robert drivas , brenda vaccaro and don rickles .

the film was released on may 7 , 1969 , by united artists .

where it ' s at ( film )

where it ' s at ( film ) <EOT> 4 ) where dark tower fails , it fails in exposition . but honestly , who cares ?

annalee newitz is an editor at large at ars technica . she is the author of

" foxtrot " director samuel maoz at the 74th venice film festival . ( domenico stinellis / ap )

ars film debut : watch it ' s no game and meet the hoffbot , written by an algorithm .

" as far as i ' m concerned , the movie is a philosophical puzzle , " maoz said in an interview at the recently concluded toronto film festival , where the drama had its north american premiere . " it ' s the dirty concept , this nature of fate , and the attempt to understand it , to clean it , is what ' s interesting to me . "

like its predecessor sunspring , it ' s no game was made as part of the 48 hour film challenge at the sci - fi london film festival . also like sunspring , it ' s no game has bent the rules of writing . louis savy , who organizes sci - fi london , called sharp and goodwin ' s latest film with benjamin " counter - culture hacking . . . it ' s exciting if not a little scary . "

it ' s october . you getting in the spooky mood yet ? we take a look at the " poltergeist curse " and reveal all of the suspect deaths surrounding the film series .

two women troubled with guy - problems swap homes in each other ' s countries , where they each meet a local guy and fall in love .

garson kanin ' s " where it ' s at " is one of those strange sort of movies that come out of las vegas almost without meaning to . they usually have don rickles in them , and they ' re usually set in a big casino or hotel ( with lots of plugs ) and they usually involve a lot of hard , cynical people with tough dialog . usually frank sinatra plays the lead , but in " where it ' s at " we get david janssen instead , doing a simultaneous imitation of sinatra and richard widmark .

david hasselhoff talks about being in it ' s no game . right after this , he left for the premiere of guardians of the galaxy vol . 2 , where he ' s featured on the soundtrack rapping about starlord .

the film to the bone portrays a young woman ' s experience with an eating disorder .

real strength comes from that other cast member , the one mentioned at the top of this piece , caesar ' s palace and , by extension , las vegas . watching the scenes of the casinos and vegas in the years just before it got taken over by corporations intent on turning it into a family fun park and international tourist destination is a pleasure in and of itself . it ' s a fascinating time capsule of sin city , when it was at the height of sinfulness , glitz and glamour and none of it was family friendly . nor did it want to be . it was a place for grownups to smoke , drink , have sex and lose their money . by 1969 standards , the city of vegas was truly where it ' s at .

" the images , for someone who is at risk or struggling , it can be a very visceral experience .

talking about the film , he says , “i didn’t accept to do the film just because i fell in love with the characters . yes , it was quite challenging to play the role of jai and i might be biased to say that he’s my favourite character in the film , but this film won’t be the same without the other two characters . more than that , it’s a very emotional film , and a personal one for both my brother and me . leaving aside the success or failure of this film , it’ll be a memorable experience in our lives , and this was a gift to our parents . ”

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sept . 25 : this story was updated with additional information about the film " foxtrot ' s " u . s . distribution .

it was obvious at a wednesday night screening of dark tower , the dreamed - of - for - decades screen version of stephen king’s hybrid epic fantasy - western series , that critics weren’t buying it .

the film is a suspense thriller about michael , who brings his girlfriend jenny to a beautiful yet strange mountain town where everyone seems familiar . but he begins to see and hear things . . . see full summary »

, following a successful premiere at the telluride film festival . based on loung ung’s memoir , it stars srey moch as the young protagonist trying to survive the genocidal violence , forced child conscription and labour camps of the khmer rouge’s terrorisation of civilians in cambodia in the 1970s .

on the rooftop noelle says that she likes the pixies . earlier , when she was mad at him and he was outside her door , an instrumental piano version of the pixies song ' where is my mind ' is playing .

" it ' s representative of an ongoing tension in the field , and this [ trailer ] has crystallized it , " she says .

she said i’m bad publicity . but there’s nothing better for the israeli government than to show it’s willing to criticize itself .

even those most invested in the court’s grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality .

still , janssen exhibits an unexpected depth of acting ability ( especially contrasted to the disaster of " shoes of the fisherman " ) . and a young girl named brenda vaccaro , who plays janssen ' s secretary and drivas ' lover , has a lovely , quiet , humorous presence . in a movie like " where it ' s at , " you appreciate such things because there ' s so little else .

: you know , vampire weekend ' s doing a show at the end of the month . would you wanna go ?

. through television , theatre and film , vacarro has remained active ever since .

one look at the twitter hashtag # tothebone and it ' s easy to see why those who ' ve had eating disorders are worried about how the film portrays a complex condition like anorexia , which often isn ' t accurately or responsibly depicted in the media .

viewers who remember " lebanon " will be surprised by the new film ' s style . far from a neo - verite look at the harshness of middle east war , " foxtrot ' s " scenes are as likely to be shot through with magical realism as gritty realism . the film is laden with slick shot - making and indelible images , as technically dazzling as it is emotionally weighty .

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in anticipation of walt disney ' s ' get a horse ! ' and the biographical film ' saving mr . banks , ' we take a look at seven lesser - known facts on the man and the institution .

on october 16 , 1854 oscar wilde was born . we take a look at this incredible author ' s love for the risqué .

but that’s not really a bad thing . in fact , that’s partly what makes the film so much fun . it foregoes lengthy exposition and backstories , and while that makes for a disjointed narrative structure , it allows for a fast - paced story told mainly through scares and monsters and plenty of gunfights and idris elba asking jake if the animals in his world still speak . ( it also gets an assist from a tonally perfect score from tom holkenborg . ) there’s a basic , wondrous glee in the dark tower that makes it feel more like a stephen king film than any other stephen king film since stand by me .

behold : it ' s no game , written by an ai and starring the great david hasselhoff .

nevertheless , universal has given the director another chance . he’s back with split , a film both directed and written by shyamalan himself . are we looking at a return to form , or just another load of jumbled nonsense ?

" the ballad of narayama " is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…

chon noriega , a professor in the ucla department of film , television and digital media , points to the 1991 film " grand canyon , " which was set in l . a . and dealt with issues of race and class but had no latino standouts . it was as if " only whites and african americans have a subconscious , only they dream , " he said . " it just doesn ' t look like l . a . where did the other half of the city go ? "

marti noxon , the film ' s writer and director , responded to the criticism on twitter soon after the trailer dropped . " we hope the film helps people talk about a subject that is too often ignored , " she wrote .

yet for all of this , arcel’s film is fun , loving , scary , and often as genuinely compelling as it is wildly misguided . the dark tower may be a terrible , even baffling version of stephen king’s the dark tower , but it’s highly enjoyable as a cinematic king fanfic . here are four things you need to know to prepare for the journey .

as " saturday night live " gets ready to celebrate its 40th anniversary this sunday , we ' re taking a look at the famous funny people who started it all .

it ' s a subject that could be on the minds of mainstream u . s . moviegoers this season too , with richard linklater ' s " last flag flying " opening the new york film festival and then arriving in theaters several weeks later . the movie is a look at a vietnam veteran ( steve carell ) who loses a son to the war in iraq and must see to the funeral arrangements .

but while mcconaughey’s man in black isn’t truly menacing so much as oozing snake oil , the glimpses we get of the monsters the tower is keeping at bay are creepy and fun . the film’s special effects are top - notch , and a reminder that king’s entire multiverse hinges on a weird fiction view of the horrors out there in the cosmos . that the film features a nebula of creepy monsters from the beyond may make it feel like a stranger things ripoff to some viewers , but don’t be misled : arcel is in fact honoring king’s longstanding lovecraftian tradition .

but don’t take my word for it . just look at who’s playing miguel’s family . legendary mexican actress ana ofelia murguía ( escrito en el cuerpo de la noche , la reina de la noche ) who’s been working since the late 1960s will be voicing miguel’s bisabuela , while weeds ‘ lupita , renée victor , plays his abuela . since much of miguel’s story revolves around his love of music , it makes sense that they’d recruit sofía espinosa , who played gloria trevi in the 2014 biopic gloria , to play his mom . oh , and for his dad ? let’s just say # rogelifans have found their new favorite animated film , as jaime camil plays the young boy’s father .

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it’s an m . night shyamalan film . run for the hills ! of course , ten years ago we’d be saying the exact opposite of the once adored film - maker . dubbed the new hitchcock by many , his films including the sixth sense , unbreakable and signs heralded a bold , exciting new time for cinema .

those schools became the models for midtown high , where peter is often one of the only white kids we see . and yet diversity isn ' t a plot point in " spider - man : homecoming , " where spidey ' s nerdy gamer best friend ned leeds is played by scene - stealing newcomer jacob batalon , an asian american actor , and his rival flash thompson is played with rich - jerk perfection by tony revolori , who is of guatemalan descent .

even ahead of its release in israel , the film already has become a hot - button subject thanks to the country ' s famously conservative culture minister , miri regev , condemning it as a traitorous act . maoz laughed off the condemnation and said the right - wing government would be better off embracing the movie , which was financed by the government ' s official film fund .

" the images , for someone who is at risk or struggling , it can be a very visceral experience , it can trigger all kinds of upsetting feelings , " says claire mysko , ceo of neda . some viewers , she says , may see it as a " race to the bottom " to lose even more weight .

for sharp , who grew up hooked on knight rider , watching hasselhoff transform into the hoffbot was sort of like a fan ' s dream come true . at the same time , it was a fascinating look at how acting works . " watching david perform those lines , there was this moment where his whole stature changed . his shoulders went back and he took an 80s power stance . the watch goes up to his mouth and it was like muscle memory . an actor’s imagination exists in their body , and his muscle memory kicked in . " then he mused that this electrifying moment was actually crafted by an ai : " benjamin helps you take these calcified cultural objects that we all recognize too easily and it automatically caricatures them . if hoff is a caricature of a caricature , ben takes it a step further . "

with poltergeist & apos ; s success came a creepy mystique that the classic film is shrouded in real - life tragedies that some interpret as a curse .

jake teams up with a reluctant roland to travel from the desolate outposts of roland’s world back into the bustle of new york , where they hope to find a portal to the man in black’s lair in order to destroy it before it can destroy the tower . along the way , they battle a strange attic - destroying demon , more lovecraftian monsters , attacks from the man in black’s henchman , and roland’s own warring sense of purpose : does he want mere revenge against the man in black for past wrongs , or does he want to save the world ?

it’s not all good news , though . the first 80 minutes are nicely filmed , well - acted and deeply unnerving . unfortunately , a tonal shift at a critical turning point in the film shatters the illusion somewhat and threatens to bring you back out of what is a genuinely immersive experience , though the trademark shyamalan twist works exceptionally well here .

it’s a fair statement , but it won’t be the first time that racial fears have been encoded within the genre . in george a romero’s seminal night of the living dead in 1968 , the african american lead ben , played by duane jones , and his grim fate ( 40 - year - old spoiler : he gets killed at the end after a posse mistakes him for a zombie ) eerily coincided with the assassination of martin luther king . it was a landmark film even for having a black lead , but its bleak climax made a depressing statement on american sociopolitical progress . there are moments throughout the film that imply hostility towards ben’s race and his power but issues surrounding his racial identity aren’t overtly explored .

the film ' s depiction of recreational marijuana smoking in an innocent manner without consequences is rumored to be the main reason for its r rating by the mpaa .

he did , however , fashion a movie out of it . eight autumns after his first narrative feature " lebanon " took the foreign - film world by storm with its frightening intimacy and tank - set claustrophobia , maoz is back with another compelling film . on sept . 19 that film , " foxtrot , " swept the ophirs , the israeli equivalent of the academy awards , winning eight prizes , including best picture . that means , among other things , that " foxtrot " will now be the official israeli entry at this year ' s foreign - language oscars .

james mcavoy is absolutely astounding , managing to channel different personalities and changing between them at the drop of a hat . it’s mightily imposing and brings the actor forward into a new light – this is award worthy it’s that good . anna taylor - joy and betty buckley are both likeable with the rest of the cast blending into the background somewhat against these three impressive characterisations .

i appreciate the concern but no one made me do this film . i wanted , needed to . i ' m so proud of what we accomplished . time we talk about it !

admittedly , his son’s birth was a wake up call in his life and the first time he held his son at the hospital was a moment of truth for him .

but as significant as it is to see faces of all ethnicities presented onscreen in " spider - man : homecoming , " it ' s still peter parker ' s story , and both the hero and villain , played by michael keaton , remain white men .

as camera tracks andy ' s walk past full - length windows of a downtown casino , a woman in blue inside the casino follows the movement , waving at the camera .

jai lava kusa is slated for release just a week before mahesh babu’s spyder arrives in theatres ; however , ntr jr is unperturbed by this clash at the box - office .

: well , whatever , we sell a hell of a lot of it .

, gushing about how it " got a million hits . " the fact that

" it ' s like a magnet school where all kinds of kids go , they just have to be really smart and test to get in , " said watts . " we thought if we made it that kind of school , then you were going to have a really interesting mix of people . " diversity " is not part of the story , " he says , because in the onscreen world of " spider - man : homecoming " — just like in the real one — it is , simply , normal .

the main elements and characters who help roland along his journey in the book series have all been merged into jake’s character , effectively turning roland’s story into jake’s story — perhaps because at heart all stephen king stories are about boys learning to be men . here , it is jake who must find roland , learn about the tower , and ultimately stop the man in black from blowing it up . if that happens , roland assures jake , the darkness the tower currently holds at bay — an implied nebula of strange lovecraftian cosmic terrors — will encroach upon all of their separate worlds .

“we have had numerous instances where multiple films have gone on to become hits , despite releasing at the same time . if the content is good , then people will even watch 100 films ! and i’m sure that both the films will do well . i’ve always believed in competition because that’s what keeps everyone on their toes ; however , there’s absolutely no bad blood between actors . ultimately , the industry should thrive and the only way forward is by doing good films . ”

‘it is one of the very , very few horror movies that does jump off of racial fears’ … jordan peele on his new film get out , which stars daniel kaluuya , above . photograph : youtube

a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .

such stories — wherever they take place — address more universal dynamics : of countries at the crossroads of patriotism and military tragedy .

last year , director oscar sharp and ai researcher ross goodwin released the stunningly weird short film sunspring . it was a sci - fi tale written entirely by an algorithm that eventually named itself benjamin . now the two humans have teamed up with benjamin again to create a follow - up movie , it ' s no game , about what happens when ai gets mixed up in an impending hollywood writers ' strike . ars is excited to debut the movie here , so go ahead and watch . we also talked to the film cast and creators about what it ' s like to work with an ai .

" i won ' t be naive and say there is no social or political statement in my film , " maoz said . " but it ' s more broad than specific . i don ' t have an interest in a realistic film about a roadblock . the roadblock is a microcosm of a society — any society — that has its perception distorted by a past trauma . "

" foxtrot " is based on the feeling the director had that school day morning . winning the silver lion award at the venice film festival ( compared to " lebanon ' s " gold lion prize ) , it spins from its director ' s anxiety a tale of a successful nearly middle - aged couple , the feldmans , who learn from military attaches that their fresh - out - high - school son was killed while engaged in mandatory military service .

ust in time for halloween and after a notably devastating year for race relations in the us , the first trailer for jordan peele’s directorial debut get out has hit , causing an understandable stir . given peele’s emmy - winning comedy central show key & peele , it’s perhaps no surprise that his first film as director would involve racial commentary ( one of his most famous skits revolves around the

until it begins to master those aspects of producing and distributing entertainment meant to confront shame and stigma , it ' ll continue to discover its blind spots by trial and error .

she is cautiously optimistic given that , prior to the film ' s netflix distribution deal , neda partnered with its actors to produce a public service announcement addressing common myths about eating disorders .

the friction between israel ' s arts community and benjamin netanyahu ' s conservative government has been sparking for a while ; it came to the international fore with a controversial gown regev wore on the cannes red carpet this year , depicting the old city of jerusalem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the six - day war . regev was not invited to the ophirs by israel ' s film academy .

moreover , ntr jr states that going by the kind of films being made in the past few years in telugu cinema , the industry is moving in the right direction . and just when we begin to wonder if he’s no longer wary of expectations riding on his films anymore , he replies , “there’ll always be expectations . you can’t avoid it . the only thing you can do is put in a genuine effort to make good films and surpass expectations . look at baahubali - the whole country had huge expectations on the film and it was due to the efforts of every single artiste and technician that the film became what it is today . you can’t have any apprehensions before taking up something and i love challenges . ”

diversity isn ' t a plot point in ' spider - man : homecoming . ' it ' s just normal for millennial new yorkers like peter parker

julia child ' s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger julie powell ' s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in child ' s first book .

only one element we’ve seen before in a stephen king film makes a dent on the plot : the shining itself . fans of stephen king , or of the kubrick film , may recall that the “shine” is a rare psychic ability to read minds and sense the future . throughout dark tower , jake is informed that he “shines , ” that he has “the shine , ” and that this is a rare gift — so rare we’ve seen it only in a few king characters here and there over the decades . this , too , might feel superimposed on the film , but it’s a loving reflection of the ongoing interconnectedness of king’s worlds — a crucial aspect of the dark tower series .

it ' s complicated is a movie starring meryl streep , steve martin , and alec baldwin . when attending their son ' s college graduation , a couple reignite the spark in their relationship . but the complicated fact is they ' re divorced and he ' s remarried .

cast deaths were not the only agents of the curse’s proliferation , as other peculiar and creepy legends surround the film franchise . jobeth williams , who played mom diane freeling in the first two films , claimed that director steven spielberg insisted on using actual human skeletons as props in an attempt to save money ( at the time , they were cheaper than plastic skeletons ) . williams’s claim has never been verified , but it persists to this day in the lore surrounding the films’ curse .

" fear the walking dead " at least tries to hew to some reality as far as who lives in l . a . the show ' s use of spanish with subtitles during some conversations lends a touch of authenticity . but it doesn ' t seem like it should be a sisyphean ordeal for a show set in l . a . to cast a latino as a latino .

when asked on set about the importance of being a latino on the show , he revealed that he isn ' t latino . his mother is " 100 % sicilian so that ' s where i get my spanish - looking skin texture , " he amiably explained , adding that he usually went for white or latino roles .

and marvel will take even bigger steps soon . " black panther , " starring chadwick boseman as the film division ' s first leading superhero of color , promises a true watershed moment for representation when it opens next february with a predominantly black cast onscreen and " creed " director ryan coogler , the mcu ' s first african american helmer , behind the camera .

we may not see the events that have taken place over the course of the dark tower series in this film , but elba’s roland has internalized them all the same . whenever he aims a weapon , you fully believe that he kills not with his gun but with his heart — part of the gunslinger creed . elba is the physical embodiment of roland , and he’s so committed to his vague , barely explained quest that he stays the film’s most deeply compelling figure , even if he’s no longer the main protagonist . when we finally see roland attempting to interact with random people in modern - day new york , and see how out of place he is , the comedic moments are tinged with sadness : here is a man out of time who’s truly lost everything , won’t regain it , and knows it .

it turns out maoz ' s daughter had missed the bus by mere seconds and was still alive . but the incident stayed with the director in a peculiar way .

“there were no references for me to play this role , and it drained me out both mentally and physically . when actors depict stuttering on screen , it’s usually exaggerated . but we wanted to put a different spin on it . instead of stressing on the first syllable of a word , i tried doing that in the middle of the word or a sentence . this made the dialogue both audible and convincing . acting is all about how your internalise an experience and convince someone that it is plausible . i’m often asked to share tips on acting , but i believe that it’s something that can’t be taught , ” ntr explains .

arcel also does his best to run with the interconnectivity of king’s universe , something that links many of his books but has really never made its way into a screen adaptation until now . the dark tower universe essentially ties all of king’s universes together ; characters from the dark tower appear in other books , and characters throughout his fiction move between the worlds held in place by the tower . on film , save for one element , these multiple worlds feel superimposed : a long - ruined theme park dedicated to “pennywise” in roland’s world implies that it ’s shapeshifting titular character once ran the joint ; a portal dubbed 1408 implies that the demonic hotel room of king’s 1408 is but a jaunt away ; other subtler references to salem’s lot , needful things , and the shining occur throughout the film .

samuel maoz ' s " foxtrot " swept the ophirs , israel ' s equivalent of the academy awards , but has been condemned by the government ' s conservative culture minister miri regev . ( tiff )

i love by the sea , but it’s a gorgeous curio when set alongside the rest of her output . in returning to the bigger , more heavily political canvas of first they killed my father , jolie reconnects with her prior body of work and looks afresh at the often disregarded collateral damage of male warfare : women and children . let’s hope the world is ready to listen this time .

unbroken was superseded by her much smaller film , by the sea , in 2015 . based somewhat on jolie’s parents’ marriage but also redolent of gena rowlands’ work with john cassavetes , it tells the story of a couple pulled apart by grief after two miscarriages , which causes them to act out in various unflattering and perverse ways . although this luxury arthouse work is anomalous in terms of jolie’s much wider interests as a director , by the sea marks her out as an auteur who can create stunningly beautiful work that balances sumptuous design with ( particularly female ) emotional torment . in one scene jolie’s character nessa tells her husband , played by jolie’s then - husband brad pitt : “maybe you shouldn’t have a drink today . it’ll be good for you . ” clearly brad didn’t listen . and have you heard him speaking french , as he does throughout the film ? oof – it’s like overhearing an upstairs neighbour struggling to move heavy furniture .

) and janssen had something else in common as well . both actors would die before reaching their fiftieth birthday . janssen died of a heart attack at the age of 48 and drivas died from complications due to aids in 1986 at the age of 47 , one year shy of the age janssen lived to be . drivas led a very private life and while his death from aids is widely known now , at the time , whether by mistake or personal family request , the

“films are scripted , but on bigg boss , i got a platform to showcase who i’m as a person . i’m just tarak there . and tarak laughs a lot , ” he laughs . the show’s popularity has surged a lot and the actor , by his admission , has gained a lot from it : “i made it a point to watch every single episode of the show and it’s only then that i was able to host the show with some degree of spontaneity . it was a wonderful experience , but i don’t know if i’m going to do more tv shows . let’s see what else is in store for me . ”

the story follows teenager jack benson . jack is on the hunt for his birth mother he finds she has been a regular all along at the nearby griddle house .

when your cherubic little daughter communicates with spirits living inside your tv set , your backyard becomes a swimming pool of muddy skeletons , there’s a wolf - beast - demon living in your children’s closet , and steven spielberg & apos ; s genius gets into the mix—that’s a formula of blockbuster scariness .

and yet , according to several studies , no group buys more movie tickets when compared with their proportion of the u . s . population than latinos . in the motion picture assn . of america ' s 2014 theatrical market statistics report for u . s . and canadian moviegoers , latinos were 17 % of the population but " oversampled " at 25 % of north american frequent moviegoers .

moonlight is the surprise contender in this year’s oscar race ; directed by barry jenkins , and adapted from a play by tarell alvin mccraney , it’s the story of a black gay man at three different stages of his life . jenkins and two of his male cast , trevante rhodes and andré holland , talk about the issues surrounding black gay identity , while naomie harris explains how she got to grips with playing a crack addict .

a widowed mom gets a summer internship at a tech company and draws the attention of two very different executives while learning about about accounting , app designs and finding love .

a latino playing god as he gives up control of planet earth to help a funny white tv reporter having a bad day at the office ? get out of here .

the shift in focus shown in the trailer for get out and the exploration of racial identity suggests that the horror genre might finally be ready to push a new boundary . there’s so much to unpack in the 150 - second preview , giving us a mere glimpse of themes we’re not used to seeing in horror . the timing of the film also mirrors romero’s efforts in the 60s to reflect america’s struggle with race , a nation still plagued by ongoing , institutional injustice . while get out will act as entertainment predominantly ( it’s from blumhouse , the production company behind insidious and the purge ) , with daily reports of black men killed for the color of their skin , it’s also a vital reminder that racism remains a more terrifying force than any supernatural boogeyman .

ever since the makers of the film unveiled the characters which ntr is going to play , there’s been a lot of focus on him as jai , who considers himself as a modern day ravana , and quite rightfully so . he even stutters while delivering his lines , and that’s become an usp of the character .

in the new film , the key to that success lies with a boy named jake ( tom taylor ) , a psychic teen living in new york who’s been frenziedly drawing his constant visions of roland , the tower , and a mysterious man in black who wants to destroy it . jake is convinced , correctly , that otherworldly beings wearing human faces are working for the man in black , kidnapping children from jake’s world and using them to essentially direct psychic laser beams at the tower . when they inevitably come for jake , he uses the knowledge his visions have granted him to elude capture and escape through a multi - dimensional portal to roland’s world , a vast barren wasteland .

" i do think it opened the door … [ both ] the casting of that show and the audience embracing it , " said finn , who also casts from the television and theater worlds and says she ' s constantly going through an ever - stacked pile of dvds on the lookout for new talent .

she followed up with a more comprehensive statement thursday night that acknowledged her own experiences with anorexia and bulimia and stressed the importance of responsibly portraying what it ' s like to have an eating disorder .

' s sarah hay ) , who informs them that it doesn ' t matter if they go on strike because the future is ai writing movies for other ai . as evidence , she shows them

cass , a widowed mother of two and driven attorney , is in need of a nanny . she hires matt , a handsome single family friend . matthew ' s more laid back style changes the demeanor of the family ' s intense schedule . does cass realize she ' s needs to adjust her life ' s focus ?

for those who have a more practical inquiry of maoz — where has he been since 2009 ? — he has an elusive answer . the director , 55 , said he had been concentrating on other activities such as building furniture and raising his daughters while also developing a black comedy that has yet to be produced . he had also been flirting with several military stories , " but i ' m not sure i want the army to be my career . " so he took them all and folded them into his film .

revolori was coming off of memorable turns in wes anderson ' s " grand budapest hotel " and the sundance darling " dope " when he auditioned for " spider - man . " " i saw white kids auditioning for ned and flash and liz and michelle , so it wasn ' t about , ' let ' s cast this diverse , ' " he told the times . " it was more about , let ' s let diverse people and people of color have the opportunity . "

british actor charlie hunnam was cast asmexican american cartel kingpin edgar " la barbie " valdez in the film " american drug lord . " ( don kelsen / los angeles times )

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king louis xvi ascended to the throne on may 10 , 1774 . we take a more intimate look at the king and his wife marie antoinette—the good , the bad , and the naughty .

the world ' s most famous madame is called to washington to testify before congress .

) , but what’s interesting is that he would insert this within the horror genre .

sometimes what ' s in your head isn ' t as crazy as you think .

jolie excels when she puts the experiences of women and girls in the spotlight . her second film , unbroken , in 2014 , was a solid biopic of louis zamperini , the former japanese prisoner of war who became an olympic runner . it was well made , but stately and too worshipful of its subject .

" she said i ' m bad publicity . but there ' s nothing better for the israeli government than to show it ' s willing to criticize itself , " maoz said . " they didn ' t play this right . they used to play chess , and now they ' re boxing . "

and we haven’t even gotten to the two funniest additions to the film , who are surely to garner the most laughs . proving that we should follow guillermo del toro’s example and not pit coco against the similarly - themed animated flick the book of life , the disney·pixar has recruited one of del toro’s own book of life voice actors ( the very funny gabriel iglesias ) to play the part of head clerk in the land of the dead’s “department of family reunions . ” and then there’s cheech marin—who’s also lending his voice to this summer’s cars 3 . he’s also playing an authority figure in the ghostly land of the dead as a corrections officer . the rest of the voice cast is rounded out by herbert siguenza , selene luna , octavio solis , lombardo boyar , alanna ubach , and blanca araceli .

" so , right from temper to my latest film jai lava kusa , the whole idea has been to put in a genuine effort to do something challenging and hope that people like it as well . my son is growing up and i have to be a very responsible father to him . i want to create an atmosphere around him so that he can go on to explore what he wants to do . if he’s destined to be an actor , so be it , but i’m not going to force him into it , ” he confesses , furthering , “i don’t believe in the idea of legacy . talent is what matters in the end . no one forced me to be an actor . my son might be tilted to this profession , but i won’t push him into it . ”

with jurassic world : fallen kingdom now in cinemas , we take a look at how imdb users rated the films of the franchise . plus , browse exclusive lego® jurassic world playsets , presented by lego .

what happens when you mix reality tv , celebrities , a world - renowned psychic - medium , and the dead all into one ? you get the haunting of… ! bio’s hit show returns for a second season , which premieres this saturday , june 1st at 10 / 9c . . . .

what the dark tower loses in faithfulness to king , it makes up for in spirit , fun , and a sense of wonder .

critics of the trailer also pointed out that it offered no mental health resources for those who might need support after seeing the images pop up in their newsfeed . mysko is hopeful that netflix , which received the same criticism over graphic episodes of 13 reasons why , will air the film with the contact information for appropriate helplines .

" my goal with the film was not to glamorize eds , but to serve as a conversation starter about an issue that is too often shrouded by secrecy and misconceptions , " she wrote .

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i was mostly able to follow the plot , i didn ' t quite get how the main problem / threat was addressed . aside from being competently made and having a few ok gags , i do have a bias for movies that criticize religion , although none of the serious points made in it is anything new to those familiar with the topic . it is nice to see this type of portrayal of religion in 2017 - it is entertaining and a good way to spend an hour or so for amazon prime members , however it won ' t change anybody ' s mind , and is a far cry from a must see .

for so , so many reasons , a reasonably faithful film version of all eight books of the dark tower was never going to happen . ( spoilers follow for the dark tower book series . )

overall , split is a thrilling return to form for a director who had all but lost his mojo . with a spell - binding performance from james mcavoy and a very well - written script , this is a film that highlights the art of film - making in a simple fashion ; one that shows you don’t need a massive budget to keep the audience on the edge of their seats .

the plot focuses on chris ( sicario’s daniel kaluuya ) , a black man planning to meet the parents of his white girlfriend rose ( allison williams , known for her role as marnie in girls ) for the first time . but from the outset , something seems off . an uncomfortable encounter with a local cop puts them – and us – on edge and once they arrive at the family home and get settled , chris becomes aware of increasingly strange , and potentially murderous , behavior . a major element of this relates to racial difference as chris must navigate an almost entirely white space ( apart from the “help” ) , relying on a lifetime’s worth of practice dealing with micro - aggressions and discrimination . it’s a thrilling conceit and one hopes that get out might signal a trend of culturally relevant horror films from film - makers of color .

perhaps the scariest part of it ' s no game , at least for a writer , is the idea that the writer ' s strike might be resolved by hiring ais . sharp is currently writing a screenplay about the de - extinction of wooly mammoths and said that " the possibility of the writer ' s strike is looming large in my life . " but he isn ' t afraid that benjamin will become a scab like robocop did during the detroit cop strike in the eponymous movie . " in a way we ' re being a bit satirical about people who are afraid of what ross [ goodwin ] and i are doing . "

angelina jolie , with loung ung , cambodian activist and co - writer of her latest film , first they killed my father : a daughter of cambodia remembers . photograph : chris pizzello / invision / ap

two people with commitments issues are asked to be best man and maid of honor at their friends wedding . with nothing much in common , they both didn ' t expect to find the romance of a life time .

and granted , there was a lot not to buy . director nikolaj arcel ’s cinematic interpretation ( “adaptation” is a tricky descriptor for a bunch of reasons ) of king’s series is a wildly ambitious attempt to take a sprawling story that spans many characters and multiple universes and turn it into an urban fantasy set mainly in new york city .

of course most war films , whoever they are directed by , depict conflict as brutal , unjust , callous and grievously wasteful of human life . but relatively few include women as plentiful or significant characters or make the obvious gendered point that it is men , not women , who are the perpetrators of virtually all the world’s violence in “peacetime” as well as war ; and that it is women and children who must suffer , unasked , through the acts and consequences of men’s violence .

while mysko wishes the trailer had fewer scenes portraying extreme thinness , she is hopeful that the film will share an important story about illness and recovery without glorifying eating disorders or erasing the diversity of people ' s experiences . collins ' character is cast as a thin , white , middle - class woman .

social media erupted recently with " whitewashing " accusations after the film " american drug lord " gave the starring role of mexican american cartel kingpin edgar " la barbie " valdez to the british actor charlie hunnam .

when brought together at a family event , two exes find themselves oddly attracted to each other after ten years of divorce . although the couple think that this affair will stay in a different state , it brings itself back to their own city and disrupts their personal lives . while the couple still maintain other romances , they cannot help but to continue with their affair .

except for king’s main character , idris elba’s roland the gunslinger — who isn’t even the main character of this movie — the other film characters are all composites of multiple characters from the book series . except for the broadest central plot point — roland pursues a man , played by matthew mcconaughey , who wants to destroy the tower that keeps our universe and many others in balance — king’s ideas have been largely swept aside for a strange fusion of science fiction and weird fiction disguised as a young adult fantasy .

an online campaign to see a spider - man of color star in sony ' s 2012 reboot " the amazing spider - man " failed , although it did land " atlanta " star glover a small role years later in " homecoming . "

" it ' s not enough just to have the best friend of the protagonist be a person of color or a woman ; [ audiences ] actually want to see the protagonist be a woman or a person of color , " said hunt , whose team issues its next hollywood diversity report in february , tracking inclusiveness in films released in 2016 . " it ' s all about , ' whose stories are we telling ? ' this appears to be a step in the right direction . "