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...concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and it runs in Brussels through January. The festival also includes a rare retrospective of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray and ends with a performance from renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. For complete program listings, visit bozar.be...
...world's busiest movie industry. IN BOMBAY THEY CALL IT BOLLYWOOD, AND IT PUTS HOLLYWOOD TO SHAME: MORE THAN 700 FILMS A YEAR (ROUGHLY THREE TIMES THE NUMBER PRODUCED BY THE MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS) in the nation's 16 official languages ... Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films. And like John Woo's and Jackie Chan's action thrillers, Indian cinema exotically evokes the complex pleasures of Golden Age Hollywood, with its glamour...
...foreign genre wasn't dead, it was missing. Some of the best directors died (Truffaut) or retired (Bergman). Others kept working, but in the U.S. their work was shown sporadically at best. The last films Fellini and Satyajit Ray made never opened here; neither have the most recent films by Godard, Resnais, Antonioni and Kurosawa. The Netherlands' Paul Verhoeven (Spetters) joined a century-long exodus of European talent to Hollywood (where he made Robocop and Showgirls). Denmark's Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) stayed in Europe but made films in English. That leaves a new generation of world masters...
...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. Not surprisingly, reactions to their choices ranged from happy appreciation to utter dismay. Rohan Shah of Jersey City, New Jersey, said, "What a great list, with a truly global outlook! I was pleasantly surprised to see the inclusion of Bollywood movies, like Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy." Sean Williams, of Los Angeles, wrote, "I have 1,000 favorite films, so I know how hard it is to choose only 100, and you can't please everyone. Still, I would have listed the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. THANKS FOR INCLUDING BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; SOME...