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Satyajit Ray
 | Slumdog Millionaire may have been thrown bouquets by western critics and audiences, but brickbats are flying in its direction in India. Although the film was a big winner at Sunday's Golden Globes and is seen as a frontrunner for the Oscars, Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's top actor and perhaps one of the most famous faces in the world, has voiced bitter comments about the movie's portrayal of India. Writing on his blog , Bachchan said that "if SM projects India as [a] third-world, dirty, underbelly ... (read more)
|  | In the 18th century, Defoe and Richardson forged the English novel by transforming the journal, the letter and the memoir into fiction. Fifty years ago, the Prussian nationalist intellectual Ernst von Salomon took the 131 headings of the Allied Military Government denazification questionnaire and turned it into an ironic 500-page memoir. More recently, in his biopic of Alfred Kinsey, Richard Condon had the great sexologist tell his own story by answering the frank questionnaire he'd sent out to ... (read more)
| | Most movie directors can point to the film that propelled them inexorably towards their vocation. But one film and one group of films stand out or at least used to in this area of significant influence - Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, for which RKO lent him "the biggest electric train set a boy ever had" to make his debut, and Italian neo-realism of the 40s, where the directors worked on the streets with old cameras, poor film stock and amateur actors. Of all those post-war Italian movies, the most ... (read more)
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