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Monday, July 1, 2024
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2024 Reviews
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2015 Reviews
- Dhanak (Rainbow)
- Haraamkhor (The Wretched)
- Labour of Love
- Tigers
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Sights from Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2015 opening night
The 13th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) got underway yesterday, Wednesday, April 8, at its usual home of Arclight Cinemas Hollywood with the world premiere screening of director Shlok Sharma 's provocative teacher-student drama Haraamkhor (The Wretched), produced by Anurag Kashyap and starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Below is video of the opening remarks by festival founder/chairman Christina Marouda, festival artistic director Jasmine Jaisinghani, and Haraamkhor director Sharma and producer Guneet Monga; followed by Sharma and Monga's post-film Q&A with star Shweta Tripathi.
The 2015 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is currently running through Sunday, April 12.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Sights from Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2014 opening night
The 12th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) got underway yesterday, Tuesday, April 8, at its usual home of Arclight Cinemas Hollywood with the world premiere screening of director Jeffrey D. Brown's human trafficking drama Sold, based on Patricia McCormick's novel of the same name. Below is video of the opening remarks by festival founder/chairman Christina Marouda, festival artistic director Jasmine Jaisinghani, Brown, Sold producer Jane Charles, and Sold co-star David Arquette; followed by Brown's post-film Q&A with festival director of programming Mike Dougherty.
The 2014 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is currently running through Sunday, April 13.
Buy Patricia McCormick's Sold novel here.
Buy Patricia McCormick's Sold novel on CD here.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
F3PR: The 12th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles announces opening night gala film
THE 12th ANNUAL INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES
ANNOUNCES OPENING NIGHT GALA FILM
Jeffrey D. Brown’s Sold,
starring Gillian Anderson, David Arquette, Seema Biswas,
and executive produced by Emma Thompson,
will make its Los Angeles Premiere
as the Opening Night Gala film
The full line-up of screenings and events will be announced in mid-March. The festival is widely recognized as the premiere showcase of groundbreaking Indian cinema. Celebrating its 12th year, IFFLA will run April 8 to 13 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles, the festival’s home since its inception.
Through one extraordinary girl's journey, Sold illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, a crime experienced by millions of girls every year around the globe. Sold is a clarion call to action and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
“Because of Sold’s marvelous script and courageous and brilliant cast,” said Emma Thompson, “it is a story that we can ALL watch – so that we may understand the processes of slavery in modern India and feel able to act without feeling the kind of rage and hopelessness that gets in the way of doing anything.”
Sold is an adaptation of the National Book Award-nominated novel by Patricia McCormick, based on true accounts. The book has been translated into 32 languages and is a powerful entry point to introduce young people to the issue of modern day slavery.
Director Jeffrey D. Brown and select A-list cast and supporters will be in attendance at the Opening Night Gala.
Nirvana-Bombay Palace will host the Opening Night Gala Reception in Beverly Hills. This year’s exclusive after-party will align with Nirvana’s sophisticated and positively vibrant atmosphere in an intimate setting that features masterful culinary renditions of Indian cuisine.
Tickets and Passes
The 12th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) runs April 8-13 at ArcLight Hollywood, located at 6360 W. Sunset Blvd between Vine and Ivar.
Festival Passes and Opening Night Gala tickets go on sale March 5 at the festival's website. Individual screening tickets go on sale March 20.
For more information, please visit www.indianfilmfestival.org or follow us on Twitter (@iffla).
About IFFLA
Now in its 12th year, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to a greater appreciation of Indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, honoring entertainment industry business executives, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the Indian diaspora.
The six-day festival is the premiere platform for the latest in cutting-edge global Indian cinema and bridges the gap between the two largest entertainment industries in the world – Hollywood and India. The festival will showcase more than 30 films from the Indian filmmaking community across the globe, host the highly anticipated Opening and Closing red carpet Galas, and the Closing Awards ceremony. This year will feature again the wildly popular “Bollywood by Night” series, live music, and dance performances.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Saturday, April 24, 2010
My Name is Khan: The rare "westernized" recut that works
I will go into more detail in an upcoming review, but I am rather surprised--pleasantly so--to report that the "international director's cut" (read: Americanized re-edit) of Karan Johar's Fox-distributed Shahrukh Khan-Kajol starrer My Name Is Khan works markedly better than the original cut that was released worldwide and on the Stateside Bollywood theatrical circuit on February 12. The major alteration is the removal of virtually the entire subplot revolving around an African-American church in Georgia, a story point I admit I admired more in theory than in actual execution; after all, I saw it as Johar's confirmation (if perhaps by happy accident) of a thought I have been arguing for years: that the genre of the gospel play is the clear American analogue to Bollywood. But more than playing easier to Western audiences, it plays easier to all moviegoers, period, curbing Johar's more overblown tendencies and more firmly grounding the story and, hence, entire film in the vivid characters of and relationship between leads Shahrukh Khan and Kajol.
Read my review of the original cut of My Name Is Khan here.
Buy the My Name Is Khan soundtrack here.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2010 Intro
The 2010 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles opened yesterday, April 20, with a screening of the Canadian film Cooking with Stella and will run through this Sunday, April 25. I will be here covering a couple of days, starting with tonight's screening of this year's Indian Foreign Language Film Oscar entry Harishchandrachi Factory, about the very birth of the Indian film industry. Also on my prospective screening agenda during the fest: Raakh (Ashes to Ashes) Redux, a recut version of a 1989 Aamir Khan starrer; and--of most interest to me--the revised "international director's cut" of Karan Johar's Shahrukh Khan-Kajol reunion My Name Is Khan, which Fox Searchlight initially released worldwide (including in America) on February 12. Running over a half hour shorter than the original cut, I'm especially curious to see if condensing the film will improve it any (I kind of doubt it, as the issues this enjoyable film does have go beyond run time). I've already reviewed during their initial theatrical runs: the middling crime drama Kaminey (Rascals), starring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra and featuring the smash single "Dhan Te Nan" (which more than bears a similarity to the Dick Dale classic "Misirlou"); and 3 Idiots, which lit up the international box office upon its release in December. As someone who keeps up with and covers Bollywood theatrical releases as closely as I do with Hollywood releases, these selections are a bit redundant for me, but it's great that films such as these (especially 3 Idiots) are given a more visible platform to L.A. cineastes who are unaware of the thriving Bollywood exhibition circuit in America (whose audience I've seen grow substantially beyond the Non-Resident Indian population since I saw Devdas at my (then-newly-opened) local "Bollyplex," the Naz 8 in Lakewood, back in 2002) and perhaps get them to seek these films out during their day-and-date-with-India general Stateside releases, which are a lot wider than most are aware. Hopefully some effort will be made at the festival this year to inform and remind audiences that Indian films are always released on local screens on a very regular basis throughout the year.
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