THE 51st.....ANY INDIAN FILM........

Welcome to the Times bfi 51st London Film Festival, the capital's annual event celebrating the best in cinema from around the globe. Running this year from 17th October to the 1st November, the festival will play host to many local, national and international films, premieres, actors and directors.

Unlike the hyper-competative and sales-led environments of Cannes and Sundance, the London Film Festival is an altogether simpler affair, inviting members of the public to sample the films on offer. And the festival's timing puts it in the perfect position to pick early Oscar hopefuls; many of the films in the programme are already generating early buzz and for most in the UK it'll be the first and only chance to see them before the end of the year.

So it's with that in mind that RT-UK editor Joe Utichi and film critic Paul Anderson have been hitting the festival to cherry pick the twenty films from the festival you're likely to be hearing a lot about in the coming months.

THE TOP 5 WHO RUN THE SHOW.....

MARTIN SCORSESE: he is branded the most talented director of his generation and his peers are coppola,Spielberg and lucas. scorsese films speaks for him and i cant say moe baout him but can list few films
MEAN STREETS-1937
RAGING BULL-1980
THE GOLD FELLAS-1990
these films aer rated as one of the finest films of last 30 years.

Martin Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Flushing, New York. Through most of his life, his chosen career goal was to be a priest. However, he later had a change of heart, and decided instead to become a filmmaker. In 1964, he graduated from New York University from the film program. During the rest of the 60's, Scorsese made various student films, eventually becoming an assistant director and co-editor of the documentary Woodstock in 1970. This film, along with his others, caught the eye of veteran low budget producer Roger Corman. In 1972, Scorsese directed Boxcar Bertha for Corman. In 1973, he followed that up with his amazing feature, Mean Streets. As Walter Melnyk pointed out, that film provided benchmarks for the Scorsese Style: New York settings, loners struggling with inner demons, pointed-shoes rock meets opera soundtracks, and unrelenting cathartic violence.
In 1974, Scorsese directed Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore which earned Ellen Burstyn a Best Actress Academy Award. In 1976, Scorsese directed the film for which he is probably most famous for, the ultra-violent Taxi Driver which drew controversy after it inspired John Hinckley's assasination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In 1980, Scorsese made another film with Robert De Niro, Raging Bull. The film was an amazing, black and white biography of middleweight fighter Jake LaMotta which earned two Academy Awards. One for Best Actor - Robert De Niro, and one for Best Editing - Thelma Schoonmaker. Later, it was selected as best film of the decade by film critics, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. His next few works were King of Comedy in 1983 with Robert De Niro, After Hours in 1985, and in 1986, Paul Newman earned an Academy Award for his reprisal of the role of gambler Eddie Felson in The Color of Money. His next film was probably his most controversial to date, The Last Temptation of Christ which outraged some religious groups by attempting to portray a human son of God. In 1990, he directed the excellent film, GoodFellas. In 1991, he directed a remake of Cape Fear, a remake of the classic 1961 film. In 1993, he directed The Age of Innocence. Casino, his epic about the rise and fall of a mob figure in Las Vegas was released in 1995. In 1999, Scorsese released Bringing Out the Dead, an adaptation of Joseph Connelly's novel about an overworked, stressed ambulance driver fighting insanity. Scorsese has stayed busy over the years, directing Gangs of New York in 2002, and The Aviator in 2004, with The Departed scheduled for release in 2006, with an incredible cast, consisting of such talent as Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio (a Scorsese favorite of late), Martin Sheen, Matt Damon, and Alec Baldwin, and a great story concept, being of cross spies, one being in the Boston Police Department, and the other being in the Irish Mafia in Boston.
Martin has never won an Academy Award, however, in 1997, he was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick and producer Eddie Schmidt - a breakthrough investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its profound effect on American culture.

-->The documentary asks whether Hollywood movies and independent films are rated equally for comparable content; whether sexual content in gay-themed movies is given harsher ratings penalties than their heterosexual counterparts; whether it makes sense that extreme violence is given an R rating while sexuality is banished to the cutting room floor; whether Hollywood studios receive detailed directions as to how to change an NC-17 film into an R, while independent film producers are left guessing; and finally, whether keeping the raters and the rating process secret leaves the MPAA entirely unaccountable for its decisions.

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" was kept under wraps by the filmmakers during more than a year of research into the MPAA's rating practices. Director Kirby Dick ("Twist of Faith," "Derrida") interviews filmmakers, critics, attorneys, authors and educators. Ultimately, Dick tries to uncover Hollywood's best-kept secret - the identities of the ratings board members themselves.
Filmmakers who speak candidly in "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" include
John Waters ("A Dirty Shame"),
Kevin Smith ("Clerks"),
Matt Stone ("South Park"),
Kimberly Peirce ("Boys Don't Cry"),
Atom Egoyan ("Where the Truth Lies"),
Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream"),
Mary Harron ("American Psycho"),
actress Maria Bello ("The Cooler") and
distributor Bingham Ray (co-founder,
October Films and former President, United Artists).

{taken from the web site and can watch the film in google vedioes.
ttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-559517494445537267

HAPPY DAYS HUNGAAMA!!!!!!

SHEKHAR KAMULLA, one of the best directors in my list. i love his first film the DOLLOR DREAMS.
he is very talented and intelligent in gettting the main line for his film and he proved himself by ANAND and GODAVARI.
after creating his own image and name he took a very delicate and good point ie STUDENTS.....COLLEGE...LOVE....FRIENDSHIP... i think its very difficult to make a film hit with this concept, i have few reasons for my statement, coz people were watching such films from many year and PREMADESAM,BOYS,VENNALA were very good and CHITRAM,NUVVEKAVALI were also liked by few categories of public.

i studied my engineering in K.I.T.S-warangal and i enjoyed a lot in my student life and i had friends in CBITVASAVI,MGIT and many engineering colleges in hyderabad but i did not find such sentiments and a sort of maturity at that age in my group.

the charects were not equally balanced ,i mean one person very matured and one very naughty and one from village and one from city, ofcourse if it is not so you wont call it as a college but love is not given such high importance in engg life or even interaction between girls and boys is more in their masters but not in their b-tech.

student life very happy life is a very common talk outside but its not always happy and at the same time the importance of time is very important.
my self and my friends enjoyed a different style of student life and i saw a very posh,no no not very posh but it looks posh on the screen for the students who are away from hyderabad and chennai.

the degree college guys and girls start being like engg guys and rich clothes cell phones ect etc.
a group of students who are studying in mailavaram engg college or some other engg coll out side the main city, they will assume hdy and cbit as a very rich college and to be frank there are only 6 NRI seats per section and it cant be a rich college or engg life is not very cool going life.

i wil very soon make a film in future which shows the importance of time and the position that students should give for love at that age and i forgot to tell about the a scene in the film ie THE TEACHER SCENE, i dont rememeber her name and it was similar to the SRK'S hindi film and few dialogues betwenn the hero and the girl resembled KUSHI as well.

on the whole HAPPY DAYS can be watched very happyly and a another good film from the AMIGO'S team.