Winds From The East

The action on Indian Auteur might be a little less these days but we slowly sorting out all the mess to get things back in order. From the content to design. But our offline efforts with IA sister body Cinedarbaar is being noticed. Here is a major news wire(IANS) service story on film clubs in Delhi. Cinedarbaar is actively involved in the space for film programming, interaction, discussion and championship of auteur studies. It has been involved in programming and otherwise in over 15 festivals, 10 film workshops, 5 major Film Interaction Programme( National Film Awards, Indian Panorama etc), Summer Film Camp for Children and Cinephile Meetings in the last one and a half year of its existence. Delhi is talking world cinema, thanks to film clubs By Mohita Nagpal New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) No longer are “Breathless”, “Rashomon” and “Amores Perros” the preserve of the well-heeled at Delhi’s arty evenings. Critically acclaimed international films like these have struck a chord amon...

Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre, New Delhi, in collaboration with Directorate of Film Festivals will be hosting acclaimed Director Ang Lee’s Retrospective Film Festival from 23 rd to 25 th July 2010 at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Thereafter, the movies will be showcased in Pune and Kolkata. The five films that will be screened for audiences are: Fine Line (1984), Pushing Hands (1992), The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000). This festival traces Ang Lee’s journey starting from his first college. READ MORE

American Center and Cine Darbaar welcomes you for the retrospective of Alfred Hitchcock movie from May 7 th -9 th 2010, American Center, New Delhi. Discussions follow each screening. In its continuing efforts to screen films by past and present cinematic masters for a large group of people and subsequently inculcating critical discourse through discussions among the audience members, thereby attempting a restoration of cinema to a communal activity, Cinedarbaar will organize a retrospective of the films of cinema heavyweight Alfred Hitchcock. The event will feature interactive sessions conducted by the writers from Indianauteur.com – typical of all events organized by Cinedarbaar, multimedia presentations to illustrate various aesthetic schemes employed by Hitchcock to achieve the title of ‘Master of Suspense’, and his everlasting influence on hordes of cinema greats who followed him. READ MORE

CINEDARBAAR

The Indian Auteur Tm, run a small independent-cinephile lead' Cinedarbaar Welfare Society', under the leadership of artistic director, Supriya Suri in New Delhi, India. The society is extensively involved in pushing film education, the ideas of film programming and showcasing films in schools, colleges,villages, towns and cities its involved in creating a forum for discussion, learning and debate. ...And creating a space against the tyranny of Bollywood. In Feburary, Cinedarbaar is organising its latest event called ‘ Horror Cine Experience’ at Instituto Cervantes or the Spanish Culture Center from the 25 th to the 27 th of Feb 2010 with media partners in the form of Radio Noida and BatchBuzz Read More VISIT: INDIAN AUTEUR.

Directorate of Film Festival of India & Cinedarbaar The Minister of Information & Broadcasting Smt. Ambika Soni will inaugurate the retrospective of Shakti Samanta Films on 10th July 2009 at 1830 hrs at Siri Fort Auditorium II, New Delhi. Director and son of late Sh. Samanta, Sh. Ashim Samanata will be the Keynote Speaker. Shakti Samant’s award winning film Amar Prem (Hindi Colour, 1972, 153 minutes) would be screened at the inaugural function. Sh.Samanta, the noted film director/producer passed away on April 9, 2009. Shakti Samanta directed first feature film in 1954 and started his own production company, Shakti Films, in 1957. In all, Samanta has directed 43 feature films: including 37 Hindi, and 6 Bengali films. His best known films are: Howrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evenin...

TAIPEI ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL CENTRE and CINE DARBAAR (www.indianauteur.com) Cordially invite you to TAIWAN CINE EXPERIENCE 2009 At the ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE, 27 and 28th June NEW DELHI, 11 JUNE: The Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) in collaboration with Cine Darbaar will host “Taiwan Cine Experience 2009” from June 27 to 28 at the Islamic Cultural Centre, here. The two-day festival will be inaugurated by Mr S M Khan, Director, Directorate of Film Festival, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting at 5 pm on June 27, followed by the screening of the film, Three Times. The guest of honour will be film director Mani Kaul. According to TECC Representative Wenchyi Ong, the festival will help Indians to watch Taiwanese films such as Palme d’Or and Cannes-nominated movie Three Times, critically acclaimed psychological thriller The Hole, Berlin International Film winner The River and the autobiographical film, A Borrowed Life. “The aim of the festival is to spread the aesthetics ...