Monika’s Pensieve

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Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (Israel/France/USA, 2007)
Seen: Wednesday, 11th December 2008 (cinema)
Runtime: 87′
Polish Distributor: Kino Świat (21st November 2008)
Director: Eran Kolirin
Cast: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
Production House: July August Productions, Sophie Dulac Productions, Bleiberg Entertainment
Plot: An Egyptian police orchestra gets lost in Israel.
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Impressions In Short
I was a little worried this would be one of [...]

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Mr And Mrs Iyer (India, 2002)
Seen: Sunday, 6th December 2008 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 120′
Polish Distributor: Blink (I think the DVD release will be sometime next year)
Director: Aparna Sen
Cast: Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma
Plot: Hindu-Muslim riots bring an orthodox Hindu Brahmin woman and a (not so orthodox) Muslim man together during a bus trip to [...]

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Kabul Express (India, 2006)
Seen: Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 (DVD)
Runtime: 106′
Polish Distributor: None yet (AFAIK)
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum, Linda Arsenio
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Two Indian journalists and an American one are looking for news stories in Afghanistan. They have an Afghan guide and are sort of [...]

Since the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai a lot has been said in Bollywood about it. People want and need to talk about it and I guess that understandably the media wants to cover celebrities’ reactions to it.
Some of the reactions have been extremely emotional (people cancelling their film shoots and/or any trips outside the city), [...]

The UK has had big Bollywood productions release on the same day as they do in India for a long time now - this is due to its large Indian diaspora. But Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (which I’ve already written about) will release in eight other European countries on the same day - none [...]

I’m behind with my “film diary” as usual :] My last weekend was very intense due to the Polish National Championships in Figure Skating about which I’ll hopefully write more later *grin*
So anyway - all the films in this post were viewed on the 22nd of November. I hope I remember them well enough to [...]

Here’s an article from Variety that I quite liked :)

It was a strange feeling, checking out my Al Jazeera rss feed the other day and finding a Shahrukh Khan interview in it ;) It seems that about a day before the blasts, he was being interviewed by Riz Khan. Riz Khan has a live talk show on Al Jazeera - a pretty high brow, [...]

Al Jazeera has this series where they discover world cities through their street food. I have to look into more of these clips (cause I think it’s a really good idea), but for the moment it somehow feels right to post the report on Mumbai.
The report was shot in September (soon after the blasts in [...]

There are a number of reasons why I enjoy Shahrukh Khan interviews, but I think I’m most entertained when he’s borderline offensive - as in “OMG, I can’t believe he just said that and he’s going to get away with it!” *grin*
To be honest I haven’t come across many interviews of “that sort” recently. Nowadays [...]