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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

Begin Again Almost all the characters in Begin Again are losers, and in the end…sublime love prevails…no spoilers here! The film has an Adults Only rating in India, which seems a bit harsh. Some...

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New beginnings
Watch it once

CommunicAsia-BroadcastAsia diary, Singapore, June 2014 --A revisit 12 years later, to a block-buster event V: 4k resolutions up to 1,000 fps, HD up to 3,000 fps Prime Focus was the first familiar...

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1000 fps at 4k
Phantom Flex 4K
Senthilnathan
t-eight

CommunicAsia diary, Singapore, June 2014 --A revisit 12 years later, to a block-buster event IV: HD going, UHD coming Intelsat to spread 4K UHD 60 fps broadcasts One of the events I could not...

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4K UHDTV
60 fps
Intelsat

CommunicAsia diary, Singapore, June 2014--A revisit 12 years later, to a block-buster event III: 58,500 sq metres, Names and numbers Incorporating CommunicAsia, BroadcastAsia, EnterpriseIT,...

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50000 visitors
58500 sq. m

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Apes more human than homo sapiens, humans decimated by a simian flu, their two kingdoms separated by a boundary bridge in the USA, clichés that crossover from human...

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Much to savour
Performance capture
review
Weta