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EXPERIMENTA is India’s first and only independent festival celebrating experimental film. This is the groundbreaking festival that has put Indian experimental filmmakers on the international film scene. This annual 5 day film festival showcases films, from Europe, USA, UK and India, and is well attended by the growing community of independent filmmakers, artists, graphic designers, animation artists, music video makers, film & art students and cinephiles.

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Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – findthemselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.

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Director: Alan Crosland
Usually considered the first sound feature, this 1927 film is pretty much silent except for a few lines of dialogue and Al Jolson's songs. This movie tells the story of young Jakie Rabinowitz , the son of a cantor who wants him to follow in his footsteps, but the singer prefers secular music. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.

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Director: Pankaj Butalia
Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by the white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs. In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in its evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes its place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.

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Director: Billy Wilder
Double indemnity has been voted as one of the top 30 films of all time by the American Film Institute. Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband’s automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan...

Director: Majid Majidi
Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them.
Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.

Director : Shivajee Chandrabhushan
This is a touching and somber journey of Lasya, who lives with her father Karma and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in and settles a hundred yards across their doorstep.
The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surrounding changes into a harsh ceaseless irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dream- like existence is interrupted by inevitable odds, one after the other…

Director: Robert James Hamer
Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), a man born with royal blood. Due to a scandal -- his mother ran off with a lowly Italian musician -- the family refuses to recognize his heritage, or even his existence. When his mother dies, Louis vows to restore himself to his rightful place by murdering the entire line of the D'ascoyne family, eight of them, so that he'll be next in line for the dukedom. Alec Guinness plays eight different roles in the film.

Director: D.W. Griffith
The birth of a nation (also known as The Clansman), directed by D.W.Griffith and released in 1915, is one of the most influential and controversial of American motion pictures. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation is noted for its innovative technical and narrative achievement, and its status as the first Hollywood “blockbuster”. It has provoked great controversy for its treatment of white supremacy and sympathetic of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: George Cukor
Beautiful and trusting, Paula Anton (Ingrid Bergman) is slowly tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspects is her devoted husbands Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer).But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined. Magnificent performances from the stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession…

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Director : David Lean
In this classic British drama, Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is a housewife whose marriage is not everything she desires it to be. When she meets Dr. Alec (Harvey) in a cafe at the railway station, their chance meeting turns into a full-blown love affair. He also has a wife and family, and is leaving the country, so their affair, while potent, is indeed, brief.

Director: JEAN RENOIR
Jean Renoir’s ‘free exercise around an actor’ has Michel Simon playing the Calibanesque Boudu, a Parisian tramp who is rescued by the bourgeoisie book seller Monsieur Lestingois after a failed attempt at drowning in the Siene. Lestingois along with his wife Emma and servant Anne-Marie, are shaken by his derelict manner until they successfully drive out the beast in him. Arguably Renoir’s most important work from his first phase and testimony to the greatness of his vision, Boudu Saved From Drowning is fresh for audience and critical reassessment.

Director: MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Flying back from a bombing raid over Germany, Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter (David Niven) is nursing a damaged plane. The crew, or that part of it left alive, has bailed out and only Peter is left -- with a shredded parachute. Knowing that death is near, Peter talks of life to June (Kim Hunter), the young radio operator trying to bring him in. Making the most of his last words, Peter prepares for eternity even as he celebrates the ephemeral. A connection born of extreme pressure forms between them; about to be separated forever, Peter and June fall in love. The twist comes when Conductor 71 (Marius Goring), a Heavenly emissary, makes a mistake; Peter survives his long plunge into the Channel.

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Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Considered as one of the most influential science fiction films ever, it was also the most expensive film from the silent era. It gives a futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact – the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism.

Director: William A. Wellman
In the 1930’s, The public Enemy crystallized the theme of Little Caesar and delved even more deeply into the making of a gangster. Directed by William Wellman the film follows two young boys and their growth from shoplifters to hardened criminals. It stars James Cagney and Jean Harlow (whose role is minimal, yet billed on every poster). More coherent and focused than Little Caesar (it included dates to orient the audience when time passed); Public Enemy was also more violent, and helped to spur the cry for censorship.

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Director : Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum), a retired private detective with a shady past is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and a new job running a small gas station in a rural California town. But Jeff’s past comes back to haunt him in the guise of menacing gangster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) who had hired Markham to track down his double-crossing moll, Kathie (Jane Greer), after she had shot him and absconded with $40,000 of his money.

Director: Gregory La Cava
Based on the Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue, a scatterbrained socialite Hires Godfrey, a vagrant, as a family butler, but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Featuring the dazzling performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, this was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.

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Director: Stanley Kubrick
In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation.

Director: Preston Sturges
The film is a satire of the conflict between art and commerce as well as the gap betweenthe privileged and the impoverished. It tells of the 'mission' of 'Sully' (Joel McCrea), a big-shot Hollywood director of lightweight comedies to experience suffering in the world before
producing his next about the common man. After some failed attempts dressed as a hobo and companionship on the road with an aspiring blonde actress simply called The Girl (Veronica
Lake) and wearing boy's clothes, he succeeds in losing his freedom, identity and name, health, pride and money. A classic comedy of the depression era, this is a must for Preston Sturges fans.

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Director : John Ford
After a night of revelry in the West Indies, the crew of the Glencairn return to the tramp steamerand set sail for Baltimore. They're a varied lot, from middle-aged Irishman Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), to the young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), to the brooding lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter). After the ship picks up a load of dynamite in Baltimore, the rough seas they encounter become especially nerve-racking to the crew, specially when they are struggling between choosing the difficult livelihood and going back to their family life.

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A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Tsunami changed lives of many but in the most devastating way possible. Here an archetypal schoolteacher loses his students to the mighty ocean storm that hits the shores. He embarks on a journey to find them and it lands him on a forbidden island. Once a school teacherv- now an old man, living in an old dingy japanese binker, reminiscing the bygone days and unfailingly conducting classes under a solitary tree talking to the moon and the ocean. An outstanding performance by Tom Alter, this film is one under-rated gem.

 

Best 5 films of Akira Kurosawa

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.