3rd Habitat Film Festival

IHC's film club is organizing 3rd Habitat Film Festival.

The festival spans across 12 days(till 18th May 08) and will include lots of
regional films and a retrospective on "Sudhir Mishra" of
"Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi" fame.

Two films will be screened in the evenings on weekedays
and four films will be screened on the weekends.

you can checkout the schedule here
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/filmcalendar.asp

Entry is supposedly free and tickets are available at the venue itself.
You can also expect some celebrities there.

See you at IHC

Osian Film Festival - 2007 (20-29July)

This goes out for all the cinema lovers out there..

"Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art" is organizing 9th Osian's-CineFan Film Festival in
Delhi starting from the 20th to 29th July(in 7 theaters across Delhi).

[from Osian's site]

Osian’s-Cinefan is one of Asia’s leading film festivals devoted
principally to Asia and the Arab world. Established in 1999 in New Delhi
in July every year, the Festival enjoys an international reputation for the
quality of films screened over nine days complemented by panel discussions,
one major seminar each time, an Auction of Popular Culture and Film
Memorabilia along with a number of exhibitions, the Talent Campus for
budding young filmmakers from South Asia, and the presence and
participation of film professionals from all over the world and all over India.
We present a Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished contribution to
writing on cinema – perhaps the only Festival in the world that recognizes the
role of the scriptwriter and the critic in the creation and the promotion.

This year, the Festival, with the tagline ‘Recreating Cinematic Culture’
will focus on Japan, with a nine-film tribute to Kenji Mizoguchi. A number
of contemporary films and films on the samurai will be shown.

A must attend event for serious Movie Buffs and a should try event
for all the rest. Those of you who prefer staying in the confines
of Bollywood can try any of the following

Shatranj Ke Khiladi(Satyajit Ray), Dor(Nagesh kukunoor)
The Rising : Ballad of Mangal Pandey(Ketan Mehta),
Mr & Mrs 55(Guru Dutt),Omkara(Vishal Bharadwaj),
Mithya(Rajat Kapoor), Khosla ka Ghosla(Dibakar Bannerjee)
Anubhav (Rajiv Nath),Thang(Amol Palekar),
Jashn-e-Azadi(Sanjay Kak), Kaal(Bappaditya Bandopadhyay),
Devdas(P C Barua),Via Darjeeling(Arindam Nandy),
Kya Tum Ho(Anish Ahluwalia), Shoonya(Arindam Mitra),
A Little Box of Sweets(Meneka Das),Chaurahen(Rajshree Ojha)
Lage Raho Munnabhai(Raj Hirani),Manorama Six Feet Under,
Jagte Raho,Return to Rajapur,1971, and even
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd(Reema Kagti).

Piece of Advice: In case you are thinking of trying a foreign movie
search more about it on IMDB and see if fits the bill.

Drop in a comment if you plan to catch a flick,also mention the
name of the films you are planning to watch...

Hope to see you there

Ciao !!!!

Links:
1) Schedule
2) Osian's Site
3) Archives
4) Osian's Booklet
5) Event @ Facebook

Films I Watched

Here's a list to keep a track of the films that I watched..

43) Bhootnath(Rating 2.25/5)
42) Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi(Rating 4.5/5)
41) The Departed (Rating 4/5)
40) The Mating Habits of Earth Bound Humans (Rating 3.5/5)
39) Opera Jawa(Rating 4/5)
38) Shaurya(Rating 2.5/5)
37)Race(Rating 2/5)
36)Goodwill Hunting(Rating 3.75/5)
35)What The Bleep Do We Know?(Rating 3.5/5)
34) American Gangster(Rating 3.5/5)
33) Anything Else(Rating 3/5)
32) Pay it Forward (Rating 4/5)
31) Taare Zameen Par (Rating 5/5)
30) Khoya Khoya Chand (Rating 3.5/5)
29) Lions of Punjab (Rating 3/5)
28) American Pie 4 Band Camp (Rating 3/5) {09/11/07}
27) Jab We Met (Rating 3.5/5) {31/10/07}
26) Mumbai Salsa (Rating 2.5/5) {28/10/07}
25) Bombay Boys (Rating 3.75/5)
24) All You Got (Rating 3.25/5)
23) Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (Rating 4.25/5)
22) Chuk De India (Rating 3.25/5)
21) Borat (Rating 3.5/5)
20) Cut and Paste (Rating 3.75/5)
19) Return to Rajapur (Rating 3/5)
18) Manorama Six Feet Under (Rating 4/5)
17) Tak-Derakhth (Rating 3/5)
16) Anuranan (Rating 3.5/5)
15) Mithya (Rating 3.5/5)
14) Hia W'Houa (Rating 3.75/5)
13) Bes Vakit (Rating 4/5) {21/07/07}
12) Sansho Dayu (Rating 3.5/5) {21/07/07}
11) Domicile Conjugal (Rating 3.5/5) {13/07/07}
10) Die Hard 4.0 (Rating 3.25/5) {02/07/07}
9) Before Sunset (Rating 4/5) {30/06/07}
8) When Harry Met Sally(Rating 3.75/5) {30/06/07}
7) Cheeni Kum (Rating 3.5/5) {23/06/07}
6) Ocean's 13 (Rating 2.5/5)
5) Omkara (Rating 4.5/5)
4) Shootout at Lokandwala (Rating 2.25/5)
3) Before Sunrise (Rating 3.5/5)
2) Life in a Metro (Rating 3.25/5)
1) Bheja Fry (Rating 3.75/5)