9th Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai: The Post, A Star is Born and Maassab make it worth the wake Dainik Jagran, which means ‘daily wake’, is a leading Hindi language newspaper of India and the group also owns the popular tabloid, Mid-Day. Its 9th film festival was held across 18 cities and came to Mumbai on the 27th of September, playing through the 30th. Held at four screens of the suburban multiplex called Cinépolis (formerly Fun Republic), it suffered from many technical an...

  The Old And New Hollywood of Peter Bogdanovich This Week! Thur., August 6 – Sun., August 9, 2015   Aero Theatre · 1328 Montana Ave Santa Monica, CA · 90403      Like his mentor Howard Hawks, Peter Bogdanovich has made a career out o...

Amy, Review: Alcohol, Drugs, Sex and all that JAZZ (a.k.a. Amy: The Girl Behind The Name) If you are a film-maker looking for a subject, a feature-length documentary on a recently deceased top-ranking female jazz-soul artiste, who had troubled relationships and died at 27, would be as good as it gets. Add to that the fact that extensive, excellent quality footage is available or obtainable, and you are in business. But, as is inevitably the case, the million-dollar questions faced by a docum...

  by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent   Paul Williams won big last night at the GRAMMYs. Besides accepting for Daft Punk, he is a singer-songwriter known the world over. It is hard to imagine that songwriting was a second choice for Paul Williams, a composer/lyricist whose legacy of hit songs is known by heart by many from the recordings of artists as diverse as The Carpenters, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Kermit the Frog, The Dixie Chicks, Daft Punk, and most recently D...

Thursday, June 28------Legendary singer/actress/director Barbra Streisand performed her first-ever concert in France this week — and was rewarded with a medal of the Legion of Honor. Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy honored the singer in a ceremony in Paris this evening at the Elysee Palace, the first time the new president had bestowed the honor upon anyone since he took over last month from Jacques Chirac. "You are the America that we love," Sarkozy announced at the ...