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A lesson in negotiation:
"We seem to have gotten to a place where the problems appear to loom larger than the opportunities. I don't know if I'm right in thinking this, but I only have silence to go on, which is always a poor source of information. It seems to me that we can either slip into the traditional stereotypes — you're the studio executive who has a million real-world problems to worry about, and I'm the writer who only cares about seeing his vision realised and hang the cost and consequences — or we can recognise that we both share the same goal, which is to make the most successful movie we possibly can. The fact that we may have different perspectives on how this can best be achieved should be a fertile source of debate and iterative problem solving. It's not clear to me that a one-way traffic of written "notes" interspersed with long, dreadful silences is a good substitute for this."

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"Another year — and a spectacular journey coming to an end. We’ve had some very good books, films and music albums making 2011 special. From experimental to populist to downright intriguing — they have kept us entertained through many evenings. Let’s take a walk down recap lane with Jai Arjun Singh as he talks about the books and films that he personally loved this year. And Avirook Sen gives his take on the music albums of 2011 that, he feels, rocked. We wish you a very Happy New Year!"

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the Pixar University crest bears the Latin inscription, Alienus Non Diutius. Translation: alone no longer. "It's the heart of our model," Randy Nelson says, "giving people opportunities to fail together and to recover from mistakes together."

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Watching Pixar’s animated film “WALL-E” must be a humbling experience for other filmmakers, because it demonstrates not just the number but the variety of ideas you need to make a terrific movie.

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This is a crash-bang Bond, high on action, low on quips, long on location glamour, short on product placement.
Under the direction of Marc Forster, the movie ladles out the adrenalin in a string of deafening episodes: car chases, plane wrecks, motor boat

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The legend of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro has grown in slow ways. We were all convinced this film would be significant, though none had any inkling of how abidingly popular it would become. In fact few even dared hope it would get a release. We knew the odds were

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Overheard after the movie : ” The best part was the trailer of ‘Chandni Chowk to China.’”

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Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.
Oogway: Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles?

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I could say JCVD will make you forget every Jean Claude van Damme film you have ever seen but, being Guardian readers, it's not too likely you will have seen many Van Damme films to forget. Better, perhaps, to say that you can safely forget everything you

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I also wonder about this fight over depicting "reality" in movies. It's true that vast disparities of wealth are a reality in India where a Dharavi and Ambani's residence co-exist in the same city...But such are the paradoxes of India and it's best to emb

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The big question, however, is whether memories alone can make a movie – and the answer, based on the evidence of Chandni Chowk to China, would have be, well, perhaps every now and then. Because between all the nostalgic nods – my favourite is a throwaway

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Abstract: While preparing to film a movie entitled A Night in Casablanca, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own

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2 awesome links to adaptations of the greatest epic ever (Mahabharata)

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For weeks we followed the production of a low-budget film inspired by the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Here it is, the insanely comic making of a tragic film...
Not long after the night of 26 November, several filmmakers had a wholly original thought. Why no

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Some movies are so wildly original, so stupendously fantabulous that they transcend all definitions of aesthetics and define greatness on their own terms, providing wholesome though perhaps unintentional entertainment.
This decade has seen many such works

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Relax. In this movie, you won’t be the hero. No you will be God. Not only will you make Archimedes look like an engineering school dropout but make even St. Peter look like Caligula. You will help everyone even when being hauled onto the cross, you will r

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The Indian Razzies. Awesome!

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Reading film-related books helped refine my thinking and writing about movies. I became influenced by...the ideal of "pure cinema" - looking at a film not as an adjunct to literature or as a straightforward recording of stories but as a form that has its

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Many movie buffs - even the ones with eclectic tastes - classify films as "Serious" and "Entertaining" as if these are mutually exclusive categories. Often the classification itself is based on a superficial reading...
But great cinema doesn't lend itself

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