Yes, you read it right. If the reports are to be true, 17 films which were produced by the Malayalam cinema in the year 2019 have been shortlisted for the final round of the 67th National Film Awards. Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham, Jallikattu, Virus, Kumbalangi Nights, Moothon, Sameer, Vasanthi, Ishq, and so on are the major films that have entered the final race. … [Read more...] about 67th National Film Awards: 17 Malayalam Films Enter The Final Race!
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Bhanu Athaiya, India’s First Oscar Award Winner For Her Costume Design In ‘Gandhi’, Dies At 91
Bhanu Athaiya was born on 28 April 1929 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, as Bhanu Rajopadhye. She began her career as a fashion illustrator for women's magazines in Mumbai (then Bombay). The editor of one such magazine, Eve's Weekly, introduced her to designing clothes for her boutique. There was no looking back for Bhanu Athaiya since then. She began her costume design career with the 1956 Dev Anand film C.I.D., produced by Guru Dutt. She became a part of Guru Dutt's team and designed for his iconic films such as Pyaasa (1957), Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962). … [Read more...] about Bhanu Athaiya, India’s First Oscar Award Winner For Her Costume Design In ‘Gandhi’, Dies At 91
Danish World War II Drama Into The Darkness Bags Golden Peacock Award At 51st IFFI
Directed by Anders Refn, the 152-minute Danish film gives a gripping dive into the complex emotional turmoil which the people of Denmark had to undergo, during the Nazi occupation of the country. The film does this evocatively and powerfully, through the mental conflicts to which the protagonist Karlskov is subjected; on the one hand, he is being forced by the invaders to continue production for the German market, to protect his family; on the other hand, the moral indefensibility of this choice results also in painful breaks within his family. … [Read more...] about Danish World War II Drama Into The Darkness Bags Golden Peacock Award At 51st IFFI
Perry Botkin Jr. Dies: Oscar-Nominated, Grammy-Winning Composer Known For “Nadia’s Theme” Was 87
“Today I share the news that the man who discovered Harry (Nilsson) and signed him to his first publishing contract, a gentleman and gentle-man named Perry Botkin, passed away on Monday at age 87,” Scheinfeld wrote. “Perry was a magnificently talented composer, arranger, producer and story-teller, perhaps best known for composing the Grammy-winning Nadia’s Theme for the CBS soap ‘The Young and the Restless.'” … [Read more...] about Perry Botkin Jr. Dies: Oscar-Nominated, Grammy-Winning Composer Known For “Nadia’s Theme” Was 87
Tom Cruise Awarded Honorary Naval Aviator Certificate for Top Gun
"For the sequence where Tom got to do some extreme low-altitude flying in this film, we had to get special permission from the Navy to do it. It was one of the most extreme aerial sequences that we could come up with. Also, getting to do a real launch off a carrier and a real landing on a carrier - no one else has been able to ever do that in a movie before. Tom got to fulfill every kind of aviation dream that he had." Directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Manny Jacinto, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, and Jay Ellis. This news was first reported at Daily Mail. … [Read more...] about Tom Cruise Awarded Honorary Naval Aviator Certificate for Top Gun