articles by Kartik Nair
Critics, Cretins
Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2010
Critics, Cretins I'm in the second year of a M. Phil. in Cinema Studies. My dissertation will focus on the work of the Ramsay Brothers, Bombay's forgotten horror maestros. For the largest film industry in the world, India is yet to produce an equally formidable phalanx of film journalism ...
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Scorsese-Lite
Berlinale Talent Press, May 05, 2010
Scorsese-Lite A Hollywood Maestro tries his hand at a psychological thriller, but his fourth partnership with DiCaprio might be the worst of them all. Martin Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND (USA) stages a post-war world of paranoia and guilt on an island-fortress for the criminally insane. Whe ...
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The Vanishing House
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010
The Vanishing House A four-year study of a Maori family living in harmony with the wilderness of New Zealand - and how it was all put in jeopardy. From Berlinale Generation. If you liked James Cameron's AVATAR, I suggest you watch the Berlinale Generation film THIS WAY OF LIFE ...
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Pitching Their Talent
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010
Pitching Their Talent A closer look at the 2010 Talent Project Market, and at the submissions that may turn three directors' dreams into a film reality. “Back home we say we women are housekeepers first, and sometimes we make films.“ Laura Astorga, filmmaker from Costa Rica, w ...
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Work of Art / Art that Works
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010
Work of Art / Art that Works Lasting impressions: experts visit the Campus to discuss the importance of a good movie poster. At 24 frames a second, the ordinary feature film contains well over a million in its entire running time. The question is, which one of those millions o ...
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More Cosmetic Than Cosmic
Berlinale Talent Press, February 17, 2010
More Cosmetic Than Cosmic From Berlinale Panorama, the story of a healer who visits a Turkish town, and of the strange events that follow: Reha Erdem's KOSMOS. The Berlinale Panorama film KOSMOS (Turkey) strains hard to elevate the banalities of small-town life in Turkey into ...
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Death Is At the Center of Banality
Berlinale Talent Press, May 04, 2010
Death Is At the Center of Banality The lasting impact of a 2004 sex tape involving New Delhi students serves as inspiration for Indian filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, who reflects on voyeurism in the digital era with LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA. Dibakar Banerjee's LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA (Lov ...
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