Day 1 begins with two films I listed in my Top 5 Most Anticipated List. Words With Gods Directed by: Guillermo Arriaga … (segment “La Sangre de Dios”) Hector Babenco … (segment “The Man That Stole a Duck”) Álex de la Iglesia … (segment “The Confession”) Bahman Ghobadi … (segment “Kaboki”) Amos Gitai … (segment …
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Directed by Mira Nair Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, and William Wheeler USA, 2013 At this point, it’s fairly trite if accurate to acknowledge how drastically the world has shifted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. An equally cliched argument is how the United States has, since that ill-fated …
The Reluctant Fundamentalist India, Pakistan, USA 2012 Written by William Wheeler Directed by Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist deals with timely and important concerns like terrorism, prejudice, and paranoid xenophobia. And yet it undermines its relevance by packaging its premise in an overtly dramatized narrative. There’s no question that the filmmakers want to handle …
5. Sara Polley – Away From Her (2006)– The first word that comes to my mind in regards to this film is serene. Polley is so successful in her capitalization of that feeling in fueling her narrative. The void, rural landscape of Northern Ontario mimic the inner turmoil of the protagonists in this film, fusing the …
Variety reports that Cate Blanchett is set to star as Lady Edwina Mountbatten in Joe Wright’s Indian Summer. The film will follow the critical events during India’s Independence from England. Lord Mountbatten (with Edwina in tow) is sent to oversee the transfer of power to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the summer of …