By Michael Atkinson
Perhaps, with the cataract of Dvd'd Méliès mania besetting us . the new comprehensive Flicker Alley box "George Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)," the new, more modest and affordable Kino sampler "The Magic of Méliès," both piling atop Facets' standard "Méliès the Magician" disc . we can begin to consider the French pioneer as something other than a film history staple and an oddity for scholars. It'd be a brand new tact to take for films that, being over a century old, reach right back to the form's infancy, movies' equivalent of cave painting and hieroglyph carving. But there's something effervescent and seductive there, a spirit of high innocence and ceaseless invention that has made several of Méliès's elaborate images . most obviously, the man in the moon with the ship-bullet in his eye, from "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) . undying cultural icons, familiar to the masses who...
Perhaps, with the cataract of Dvd'd Méliès mania besetting us . the new comprehensive Flicker Alley box "George Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)," the new, more modest and affordable Kino sampler "The Magic of Méliès," both piling atop Facets' standard "Méliès the Magician" disc . we can begin to consider the French pioneer as something other than a film history staple and an oddity for scholars. It'd be a brand new tact to take for films that, being over a century old, reach right back to the form's infancy, movies' equivalent of cave painting and hieroglyph carving. But there's something effervescent and seductive there, a spirit of high innocence and ceaseless invention that has made several of Méliès's elaborate images . most obviously, the man in the moon with the ship-bullet in his eye, from "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) . undying cultural icons, familiar to the masses who...
- 3/19/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
SINGAPORE -- The Third Asian Festival of First Films tapped two productions for its best film award Monday night, jointly awarding the prize to India's "Dharm" and Australia's "Lucky Miles".
Director Bhavna Talwar's "Dharm" is about a devout Hindu priest who unknowingly adopts a young Muslim boy and the consequences that engenders. "Lucky Miles", Michael James Rowland's bittersweet comedy about the plight of illegal immigrants in Australia, also garnered the best producer award for Jo and Lesley Dyer.
The festival's directing nod went to Kabir Khan for his film "Kabul Express", also from India, about two Indian journalists in search of the ultimate news scoop in Afghanistan: meeting the Taliban. "Kabul Express" also scooped the Foreign Correspondents Assn. Purple Orchid Award.
The best male actor award went to Batzul Khayankhyarvaa for his role in "Khadak", as a young Mongolian nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman, while the award for top female performance went to India's Mamatha Bhukya for her role in "Vanaja" as a young girl who dreams of escaping her poverty through dancing but faces sexual abuse from her employer's son.
Director Bhavna Talwar's "Dharm" is about a devout Hindu priest who unknowingly adopts a young Muslim boy and the consequences that engenders. "Lucky Miles", Michael James Rowland's bittersweet comedy about the plight of illegal immigrants in Australia, also garnered the best producer award for Jo and Lesley Dyer.
The festival's directing nod went to Kabir Khan for his film "Kabul Express", also from India, about two Indian journalists in search of the ultimate news scoop in Afghanistan: meeting the Taliban. "Kabul Express" also scooped the Foreign Correspondents Assn. Purple Orchid Award.
The best male actor award went to Batzul Khayankhyarvaa for his role in "Khadak", as a young Mongolian nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman, while the award for top female performance went to India's Mamatha Bhukya for her role in "Vanaja" as a young girl who dreams of escaping her poverty through dancing but faces sexual abuse from her employer's son.
- 12/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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