Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tollywood Drama film "Aakasamantha"

Aakasamantha is a Telugu film, starring Prakash Raj, Jagapati Babu, Trisha, Suneel, Aishwarya and others, directed by Radha Mohan. Produced by Dil Raju, and music composed by Vidya Sagar. This film released on March 27, 2009.
Lead Artists
Prakash Raj
Jagapati Babu
Trisha
Suneel
Aishwarya
and others
Technical Details
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Producer: Dil Raju
Director: Radha Mohan
Story: Radha Mohan
Screenplay: Radha Mohan
Dialogues: Radha Mohan
Music Director: Vidya Sagar
Cinematographer: Preetha
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Singers: Madhu Balakrishnan, Kailash Kher, Sadhana Sargam, S P Balasubramaniam, Kailash Kher
Lyrics: Ananth Sriram, Veturi
Audio: Aditya
Release date: March 27, 2009
Songs
Okanoka Voorilo: Artist(s): Kailash Kher Lyricist: Veturi
Aatala Patala: Artist(s): Madhu Balakrishnan Lyricist: Anant Sriram
Veeche Gali Mapai: Artist(s): Sadhana Sargam Lyricist: Anant Sriram
Dhooram Kavala: Artist(s): S P Balasubramaniam Lyricist: Anant Sriram
Chinnamma Kalyanam: Artist(s): Kailash Kher Lyricist: Veturi


Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Thailand martial arts film "Ong Bak 2"

Ong Bak 2 is a Thai martial arts film co-directed by and starring Tony Jaa. It is a prequel to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.

Shooting of the film began in October 2006. It was released in Thailand on December 5, 2008.
A new trailer for the movie was released in the mid 2008, showing a fictional fantasy setting where Tony Jaa's character was rescued in the jungle by a group of martial artists of various styles and trained to unify these different styles of martial arts.
Story
Tian, a boy who aspires to grow up to be like his father, Lord Sihadecho, a gallant and loyal warrior. The treacherous and power-craving Lord Rajasena plots to seize total control of the country. He sends out vicious assassins to murder Lord Sihadecho's family and his loyal soldiers. The only survivor from this massacre is Tian, who manages to escape with deep vengeance in his heart.
Tian is then captured and almost killed by slave traders before being saved by Chernang, leader of the renowned “Garuda's Wing” guerilla group, who takes Tian in as his adoptive son and raises him up as a bandit. Tian grows up excelling in all kinds of martial arts and war strategies including man-to-man fighting, boxing, incantation, and skills of such war weapons as sword, saber, club, and explosive.
With all forms of martial arts instilled, Tian eagers to vanquish the vengeance in his heart by killing Lord Rajasena with his own hands. But he must first get pass Rajasena's highly-skilled and vicious killers.The battle leads to the origin of the scar of vengeance that comes at a price of one's blood, flesh and soul. Only unwavering faith can save Tian’s life.
Lead Artists
Tony Jaa as Tian
Tim Man as Black Ninja
Nirut Sirichanya as Master Bua
Sorapong Chatree as Chernang
Sarunyoo Wongkrachang as Lord Rajasena
Santisuk Promsiri as Lord Sihadecho



Official Trailer
Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni

Saturday, March 28, 2009

US Documentary film “Nursery University"

"Nursery University" is a documentary film on Nursery education in United States, written and directed by Marc H. Simon.
For anyone unfamiliar with the otherworldly child-rearing policies of Manhattan, "Nursery University" may seem like science-fiction: Strange, possessed beings stumble sleepless through a landscape of plenty, willing to sell their kidneys to get their kid into the proper pre-school. All this cutthroat competition is (sur)real life, though, and "Nursery University" plays it sympathetically, like a "Spellbound" in training pants. Pic has at least one market sewed up: Upper East Side parents who think it might give them an edge in the admissions process.

And, it might. Helmer Marc H Simon gets inside a self-sustaining system based on fear and prestige, where merely receiving an application for an acceptable nursery school is cause for major celebration.

What's acceptable, of course, is another issue but everyone involved -- from very sympathetic educator/administrators like the Mandell School's Gabriella Rowe, to the parents themselves -- recognize what they're involved with is slightly insane.
The competition is rabid, the behavior unspeakable and the entire philosophy is ultimately depressing: The motivation is the theory that getting a child into the "right" preschool will give him an edge entering the right kindergarten, the right grade school, middle school, high school and Ivy League college. That the Ivy League is the objective is never even a question.

If a child gets a round peg in a round hole during a preschool "interview," it's the equivalent of a 1600 on the SATs. Insanity doesn't begin to describe it.

Simon might have really skewered all his characters, but he doesn't -- they do enough of it themselves, especially the better-off couples who, as one wife admits, are used to getting what they want. They find it vaguely infuriating that they can't quite finesse the "system."
Simon might have asked a few more questions about what the New York pre-school rat race says about our culture as a whole: The idea that such a relatively infinitesimal flutter in the storyline of someone's life is worth all this effort just shows how little faith these people have that what they live in is a meritocracy. It recognizes that, quite possibly, who you took nap-time with is going to be far more important than all the work you'll ever do. That the quality of the schools is never mentioned is a very eloquent hole in the middle of Simon's story.
The kids, blissfully ignorant of the furor they've created, are adorable, the parents less so -- desperate, ambitious people are rarely all that charming, although these folks are rescued somewhat by the fact they're doing it all for someone else. How can you live with yourself, more than one subjects asks, not having done everything you could do to make your child's life better than your own?

Of course, the parents own self-image is involved, too, as is their station in life. For the less well off, a chi-chi preschool is seen to signify a step up in class; for the upper class, it means the status quo will be preserved.

It's all very troubling. But it's handled with such good humor and humanity by Simon that you start to forget that what you're so involved with is the question of where some very short people, who can barely dress themselves, are going to be finger-painting for the next eight months.
Lead Artists
Wyatt Kapadia
Sneha Kapadia
Layla Kapadia
Roderick Moon
Heidi Moon
Jackson Moon
Aleta St. James
Tony Pratofiorito
Cynthia Pratofiorito
Juliana Pratofiorito
Kim Ashton
Kris Ragoonath
Gabriella Rowe
Technical Detailes
Directed, written by Marc H. Simon
Produced by Marc H. Simon, Matthew Makar
Camera: Samuel Henriques, Bob Richman
Editors: Miki Watanabe Milmore, Tom Patterson
Music, Chris Hajian
Reviewed at Hot Docs, Toronto, April 20, 2008
Official Trailer
Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Everybody Dies but Me (Russia)

Everybody Dies but Me (Original Russian Title: Vse Umrut, a ya Ostanus) is a Russian teenage and college oriented drama film, directed by Valeria Gaia Germanika. A gritty, emotionally charged coming-of-ager, "Everybody Dies but Me" offers up a bare-bones portrait of adolescent angst in the violent suburbs of Moscow.
Brief Story Point
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna, three teenage school girls from Moscow's suburbs, learn that the coming Saturday there will be a disco at their school. The girls start feverishly preparing for the event. But Katya is rude to a teacher and the disco might be cancelled. In the end, the girls rebel against their parents, against their teachers, and against each other. Once the dust of the disco has settled, they are no longer friends, but they are also no longer who they were before.
Lead Actors
Polina Filonenko
Agnia Kuznetsova
Olga Shuvalova
Technical Details
An Igor Tolstunov’s Film Prod.
production. (International sales: Rezo Films Intl., Paris.)
Produced by Igor Tolstunov.
Directed by Valeria Gaia Germanika.
Screenplay, Alexander Rodionov, Yuri Klavdiev.





Official Trailer
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Gli Amici Del Bar Margherita (Italy)

Gli Amici Del Bar Margherita is a forthcoming Italian comedy drama film, directed by Pupi Avati.
Basic Story
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo (Pierpaolo Zizzi), un ragazzo di 18 anni, sogna di diventare un frequentatore del mitico Bar Margherita che si trova proprio sotto i portici davanti a casa sua. Con uno stratagemma, il giovane diventa l'autista personale di Al (Diego Abatantuono), l'uomo più carismatico e più misterioso del quartiere. Attraverso la sua protezione, Taddeo riuscirà ad essere testimone delle avventure di Bep (Neri Marcorè), innamorato della entreneuse Marcella (Laura Chiatti); delle peripezie di Gian (Fabio De Luigi); delle follie di Manuelo (Luigi Lo Cascio); delle cattiverie di Zanchi (Claudio Botosso) e delle stranezze di Sarti (Gianni Ippoliti). Ma alla fine, Taddeo che tutti chiamavano "Coso" ce la farà ad essere considerato uno del Bar Margherita?
Lead Actors
Diego Abatantuono, Pierpaolo Zizzi, Laura Chiatti, Fabio De Luigi, Luigi Lo Cascio, Neri Marcorè, Luisa Ranieri, Claudio Botosso, Gianni Ippoliti, Gianni Cavina, Katia Ricciarelli
Technical Details
Cemera: Pasquale Rachini
Music: Lucio Dalla
Production: Antonio Avati per Duea Film e Rai Cinema
Distribution: 01 Distribution
Release: 03/04/2009
Official Trailer
Venkateshwarlu Bulemoni