Almost one out of the ten times I manage to bang my laptop onto a desk or a wall (don’t call me clumsy, you do it, too), I lose a USB wireless mouse receiver that extends out from the side USB port of my computer. I was blaming myself for recklessness until I had my hands on a Verbatim Nano Wireless mouse. Nano’s USB wireless mouse receiver is very tiny, very short, and it eliminates the risk of you breaking it in under any circumstances. Verbatim Nano is compatible with both Windows and MAC OS and a 2.4 GHz RF…
Author: World Cinema Reports' Editors
Netflix is carrying thousands of international films recently and many of them are available for instant-viewing if you have a Netflix account. But if you want to watch them on a big screen tv, especially if you have a one with high-def capabilities, then you would need a device that can take the Netflix Instant-View experience to the big screen.One way you could do that is to take a cable from the output of your computer to your television. If your computer has an HDMI output, then you’ll be fine because you can easily see the output of your computer…
Some filmmakers do not make films. They write love letters. The camera is their pen and the celluloid, their sheet of clean white ironed paper. Their central emotion so ensconced in the maddening love of a young lad for his lovely, their feeling so absorbed in attachment, their sentiment so soaked in deep affection, and their ardor so strong, that the articulation of the sentences in the letter stops being a bother, and words take you over with the strength of their obsessive passion.Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, the much famed director of the eccentric, content-in-its-own isolation, and on-the-verge-of-a-tempest film, Rang De…
It took us 100 years to win two Oscars. Nevertheless its better to be late than never! We are finally proud of the Oscar Kudos being brought back home by our AR Rahman, Gulzar and Mr. Pookutty.And, Yes! Yipee! Hurrah! Champagne, anyone? No one? This is a historic moment. This is history being written as you read. This is us, contained as footnotes in a grander scheme of things. Today is a day to be remembered. This is a day of pride for all of us Indians. After all, a British film took the Oscars home. By an old industry…
“Slumdog Millionaire” has won 8 Oscars, Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), Best Directing (Danny Boyle), Best Editing (Chris Dickens), Best Music (A.R. Rahman), Best Sound Editing (Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers), Best Sound Mixing (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty), Best adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and the Best Motion Picture.It was earlier this year when we had the opportunity to watch Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, and it impressed to the core. This has got to be one of the best films we’ve seen in the last couple of years or so that takes Indian themes and styles and takes…
Bahrain Gulf Daily News: BAHRAIN’S Pakistani community is up in arms over the refusal by cinemas to screen the Urdu-language blockbuster Khuda Ke Liye (For God Sake).The 2007 movie was released across Europe last October and the GCC this month, but has been snubbed by Bahrain’s cinemas, says Pak Music.Net Bahrain branch administrator Mohammed Salman.Mr Salman, whose job is to promote Pakistani music and films across the region, said he had tried repeatedly to get the film screened here, but in vain.The film depicts the conflict amongst Muslims in the US following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.Bahrain Cinema Company…
Marc-Olivier Louveau (Lou Ma Ho) is a French film director and author who started his career as a scriptwriter for film and television. He has directed several commercials, documentaries and short films, which have received numerous awards and were selected at many film festivals worldwide. Parallel with his film career he has written several books in which spiritual themes are not uncommon. Marc-Olivier is an expert of the martial arts and has created his own school in Paris. He is the founder and president of the European Spiritual Film Festival, of which the first edition will be held on March…
Born 1976 in Tehran, Ayat Najafi has studied set design in the University of Tehran. In 2003 he established the “Arta Atelier”, focusing on interdisciplinary, multimedia approach to theatre, as well as experimental short and documentary film, whose subject matter dealt primarily with behaviour in Tehran, and the city of Tehran itself as a concept. Ayat had participated in “Shoot Goals, Shoot Movies” in Berlinale Talent Campus, 2005, with his short film, “Move it”. His first feature documentary “Football Under Cover” co-directed with David Assmann will be released to theaters on April 10th in Germany.Football Under Cover happens in Tehran…
NEW HOPE, PA (March 6, 2008) – New Hope Celebrates, a an incorporated non-profit gay and lesbian marketing organization, will give a rare showing of Cynthia Wade’s Oscar-winning film “Freeheld” on the big screen on April 26. The documentary will serve as the centerpiece of the New Hope Celebrates film festival. Winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and a Special Jury Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, “Freeheld” chronicles Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester’s struggle to transfer her earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree. The film depicts the media frenzy, political repercussions and advocacy…
Born in Kabul, Horace Shansab lived in Afghanistan before fleeing the country for Europe and then immigrating to the US with his family in 1980. He worked in the documentary field for many years at National Geographic Television, and then filmed and produced several documentaries. Zolykha’s Secret is his debut feature narrative film set in Afghanistan.Zolykha’s Secret is the story of a rural Afghan family living at the base of a mountain. The family struggles to survive during the last year of the Taliban and the beginning of a new war that still rages. Living under harsh and oppressive conditions,…