there have been notable successes. Last year, the Telegu-language historical fantasy “RRR” became the first Indian feature film to win an Oscar for best original song with its catchy and vibrant “Naatu
Which was the first talkie feature film of India? Ardeshir Irani's ambitious projectAlam Araushered in a new wave in Indian cinema. It brought sound on the celluloid, ending the silent era. The first Indian talkie, Alam Ara completes 90 years today. ...
udazH, India’s first portable molecular hydrogen generating machine, has been launched today by well-known Indian film actress and social worker, Bhagyashree at Mumbai. This Next-Gen Personal Wellness tool is designed with state-of-the-art features will be made available for personal use for co...
Another year, another money-making Marvel movie in the running to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. This time around it’s “Deadpool and Wolverine,” the third film in Ryan Reynolds‘ R-rated series and the first featuring Hugh Jackman‘s popular “X-Men” character. If...
Although rare, the name Emira—meaning "leader" or "princess"—was on the minds of moviegoers in 1997 thanks to the film "Welcome to Sarajevo." Stephen Dillane and Woody Harrelson star as a pair of journalists visiting the title city at the beginning of the Bosnian War, one of whom dec...
When I started going to Sundance in the ’90s, I always felt, despite the winter landscape, that I was going to be reveling in a vast garden of cinema. Each year, I wanted to know: What extraordinary film flowers are going to pop up that will then be spread throughout the land? I...
Democrat. Miss America, 1945; first and only Jewish woman to win the pageant; musician; television personality; New York City commissioner of consumer affairs, 1969-73, and commissioner of cultural affairs, 1983-87; candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, 1980; accused in 1987 of bribing...
Connie Nielsen — who played Lucius' mom in the first film, Lucilla — is returning for part two. Derek Jacobi will also reprise his "Gladiator" role of Gracchus. Better still, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington ("Glory" and "Training Day") will star as a plotting powerbroker...
The two, some of the child stars of the Oscar-winning Slum dog Millionaire(《贫民窟的百万富翁》)movie, know the Indian slums very well. That was where they grew up, and it is where they will return at the end of their Hollywood dream trip. But before going ba...
The film is based on the best-selling nonfiction book about a staggering series of “accidents,” poisonings, and shootings that killed members of the Osage Indian nation in the 1920s—most of them beneficiaries of a windfall of wealth after oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation. ...