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Considered by many to be the best concert film ever made, the TAMI show is remarkable not only for the music and the go-go dancers but also the incredible energy blasting from an audience of thousands of teens. Bring blankets, drinks and picnic dinner for this special concert screening under the stars!With performances by Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore, James Brown, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. Young director Steve Binder made his feature debut with this film of a 1964 concert at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium featuring infamous garage and surf acts,…

Nahid Persson was born and raised in Iran. Throughout her teen years, she was politically active and a supporter of human rights. Nahid participated actively in a revolution against the Shah 29 years ago, and then against the new religious regime that took over the country after Shah. Nahid was forced to flee the country 25 years ago. Before arriving in Sweden, she worked at a newspaper and wrote articles about women in various social groups. In Sweden some other Iranians and Nahid started a local radio station while also doing radio shows for the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company. In…

Wall- E is a nostalgic film that brings back the magic of old Disney Classics. At the Roundtable interview that took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on June 20, Academy Award- winning director/ writer Andrew Stanton said that he had to pull from individual emotional experience in order to feel in the moment while filming the movie and thus make it believable to the audience. From the beginning Stanton knew that Wall-E was going to be a box with a timid personality. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where consumerism has killed all signs of life, most…

The pastime of collecting baseball cards is also the pastime of collecting memories. As a child ages and his collection grows, his cards become associated with a plethora of emotions and experiences. Decades later that child, now an adult, visits his past each time he flips through the well-worn pages of his collection. The need to reconnect to the past is especially urgent for both Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda in their new movie “Diminished Capacity.” Broderick plays Cooper, a once razor-sharp political syndicate at a large Chicago newspaper. He has been temporarily banished to the comic strip pages due…

The city of Paris, which has served as the backdrop for countless romantic films, summons up visions of the Eiffel Tower illuminated against an inky sky and intimate couples in dimly lit cafes murmuring hushed I love you’s. Julie Delpy’s film “2 Days in Paris” brusquely defies this idyllic representation. Ms. Delpy, who wrote, directed, produced, and scored the film, also stars as Marion, a Parisian photographer who has relocated to New York with her American boyfriend of two years Jack (Adam Goldberg). “2 Days in Paris” introduces audiences to the couple fresh from a two week sojourn in Venice.…

I am the type of person that believes only in what I see. I do however keep an open mind about that which I do not understand. I always give a chance for another individual to explain and make me believe in the myths that they conceive to be truth. My lack of faith to some is often viewed as a shallow existence, to others a way for me to start arguments with modern day witches and “bible thumpers”. Little do people know that, even though I have never seen a ghost, nor has God ever shown his presence to…

Vijay Amritraj, who has already produced Tamil movies like ‘Jeans’ is all set to make another movie in Tamil.This time Amritraj is going with a new director and the selection for the new director is to be on a competition basis.Sony’s TV channel has taken up the job of recruitment and for this they have selected 18 people and they will compete each other and the winner will direct the movie.When asked, whether the movie will have big budget, Amritraj says “Its very riskier to make big budget Tamil movies. Its safe to go with lower or medium one. Tamil…

HollyShorts, a monthly screening series of short films, returns on Friday, March 14 at the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles. The night will include 5 new acclaimed short films, and offer a Q&A; session with the filmmakers. Friday’s lineup includes the following shorts: The Chameleon by Elliott Owen (World Premiere) (8 minutes) (Comedy) Detective Jack T. Chameleon can become anyone or anything with his trusty fake mustache and aviator glasses. He is a legendary master of disguise, who will go deep undercover to crack the case. Signerz by Roman Cortez (15 minutes) (Comedy) One sidewalk. Three challengers. Sixty…

Balkan Travelers – 6 March 2008 | The twelfth edition of the yearly international Sofia Film Festival – Bulgaria’s most significant cinema event, begins today (3/6), to the delight of movie lovers in Bulgaria.The festival’s programme includes around 100 feature films, 20 documentaries and 60 short films. More than 150 international guests are expected to attend the festival which will officially close on March 16, though some of the films will continue to be screened until the 27. All the films in the programme, regardless of their original language, will have English subtitles.Among the festival’s guests will be Fatih Akin,…

A Pakistani film about Muslims in a post-9/11 world is slated to open in India this month, a rare event considering political rivalry has limited cultural interaction between the two nuclear-armed rivals.Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God) focuses on the rift between radical and liberal Islam, an issue that also confronts India’s 140 million Muslims as they fend off charges that the community provides recruits for militant groups.Director Shoaib Mansoor hopes the Urdu-language film will engage audiences in Hindu- majority India when it opens in cinemas on March 28.“It is the first Pakistani film in India after several…