XYZ Films has unveiled the first clip from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection “In Flames,” a Pakistani-Canadian horror film directed by Zarrar Kahn.
The film, produced by Anam Abbas and executive produced by Shant Joshi, Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray, is part of XYZ’s New Visions slate. As revealed by Variety, XYZ had boarded the title last year.
In the Karachi-set film, after the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
It is the first Pakistan-set film in Directors’ Fortnight since Jamil Dehlavi’s “The Blood of Hussain” was selected in 1980.
Kahn, who is now based in Canada, was born in and grew up in Karachi. “In Flames,” which is Kahn’s feature debut grew out of “Dia,...
The film, produced by Anam Abbas and executive produced by Shant Joshi, Todd Brown and Maxime Cottray, is part of XYZ’s New Visions slate. As revealed by Variety, XYZ had boarded the title last year.
In the Karachi-set film, after the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
It is the first Pakistan-set film in Directors’ Fortnight since Jamil Dehlavi’s “The Blood of Hussain” was selected in 1980.
Kahn, who is now based in Canada, was born in and grew up in Karachi. “In Flames,” which is Kahn’s feature debut grew out of “Dia,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The UK Asian Film Festival has set Bollywood stalwarts Poonam Dhillon and Rajkummar Rao as special guests for its Closing Gala, which takes places May 14 at the BFI Southbank in London.
Dhillon and Rao will be among the high-profile names in conversation at the closing night event. The UK Asian Film Festival runs at venues across the UK from May 4 — 14. This year marks the festival’s 25th anniversary.
Dhillon, one of the most recognizable names in Indian cinema, has over 100 credits across Hindi, Telegu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi-language pics such as Noorie, Trishul, Yeh Vaada Raha, and Sohni Mahiwal. Dhillon also has extensive television credits, with work on shows such as Andaz and Kitty Party. She is also widely credited with introducing the concept of mobile makeup vans to the Indian film industry and remains the only film fraternity member of Fcat, an appellate tribunal for films facing censorship in India.
Dhillon and Rao will be among the high-profile names in conversation at the closing night event. The UK Asian Film Festival runs at venues across the UK from May 4 — 14. This year marks the festival’s 25th anniversary.
Dhillon, one of the most recognizable names in Indian cinema, has over 100 credits across Hindi, Telegu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi-language pics such as Noorie, Trishul, Yeh Vaada Raha, and Sohni Mahiwal. Dhillon also has extensive television credits, with work on shows such as Andaz and Kitty Party. She is also widely credited with introducing the concept of mobile makeup vans to the Indian film industry and remains the only film fraternity member of Fcat, an appellate tribunal for films facing censorship in India.
- 4/24/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Zia Mohyeddin, the British-Pakistani actor known for his parts in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Immaculate Conception’, and the stage version of ‘A Passage to India’, died on Monday in a Karachi hospital, ‘Variety’ reports. Mohyeddin, who was 91, was ill and on life support, his family said. His death was condoled by top members of Pakistan’s political establishment, including President Arif Ali, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and his predecessor, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan.
Mohyeddin was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), British India, in 1931. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1950s.
After theatre roles in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ and ‘Julius Caesar’, Mohyeddin in 1960 made his West End debut in ‘A Passage to India’, where he originated the role of Dr Aziz.
The actor featured in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962), playing the role of Arab guide Tafas. Roles in...
Mohyeddin was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), British India, in 1931. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1950s.
After theatre roles in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ and ‘Julius Caesar’, Mohyeddin in 1960 made his West End debut in ‘A Passage to India’, where he originated the role of Dr Aziz.
The actor featured in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962), playing the role of Arab guide Tafas. Roles in...
- 2/13/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Zia Mohyeddin, a British-Pakistani actor known for films “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Immaculate Conception” and the stage version of “A Passage to India,” died on Monday in Karachi. He was 91.
Mohyeddin was ill and was on life support in a Karachi hospital, his family said.
Mohyeddin was born in Lylallpur (now Faisalabad), British India, in 1931. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1950s. After theater roles in “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and “Julius Caesar,” Mohyeddin made his West End debut in “A Passage to India” in 1960, where he originated the role of Dr. Aziz.
The actor featured in David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962), playing the role of Arab guide Tafas. Roles in Alexander Mackendrick’s “Sammy Going South” (1963), Fred Zinnemann’s “Behold a Pale Horse” (1964), Basil Dearden’s “Khartoum” (1966), Ralph Thomas’ “Deadlier Than the Male” (1966), Tony Richardson’s “The Sailor from...
Mohyeddin was ill and was on life support in a Karachi hospital, his family said.
Mohyeddin was born in Lylallpur (now Faisalabad), British India, in 1931. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the early 1950s. After theater roles in “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and “Julius Caesar,” Mohyeddin made his West End debut in “A Passage to India” in 1960, where he originated the role of Dr. Aziz.
The actor featured in David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962), playing the role of Arab guide Tafas. Roles in Alexander Mackendrick’s “Sammy Going South” (1963), Fred Zinnemann’s “Behold a Pale Horse” (1964), Basil Dearden’s “Khartoum” (1966), Ralph Thomas’ “Deadlier Than the Male” (1966), Tony Richardson’s “The Sailor from...
- 2/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This year, the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Luff) celebrates its 20th anniversary refusing, still and yet again, to conform to the constraints of mainstream by showcasing underground and eclectic artistic projects. A selective retrospective of Pakistanis director Jamil Dehlavi is in the programme that has just been unveiled. The full line-up of the Festival is now online on the Official Website.
Beyond Pakistan : The Mystical Cinema of Jamil Dehlavi
In the presence of Jamil Dehlavi
A visual storyteller guided by his intuitions, Jamil Dehlavi has been eluding all attempts at classification for over 40 years. Born to a French mother, he grew up in Europe, following the relocations of his father, a Pakistani diplomat. He then studied law in England, cinema in New York, and returned to Pakistan to make his first films… before being temporarily thrown out of the country! His films are, of course, like him, shifting yet stable,...
Beyond Pakistan : The Mystical Cinema of Jamil Dehlavi
In the presence of Jamil Dehlavi
A visual storyteller guided by his intuitions, Jamil Dehlavi has been eluding all attempts at classification for over 40 years. Born to a French mother, he grew up in Europe, following the relocations of his father, a Pakistani diplomat. He then studied law in England, cinema in New York, and returned to Pakistan to make his first films… before being temporarily thrown out of the country! His films are, of course, like him, shifting yet stable,...
- 9/28/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the set of Pierrot Le Fou (1965). Jean-Paul Belmondo has died, leaving behind six decades of films that started with his breakout role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960). In his tribute to the iconic actor, critic Richard Brody describes Belmondo as the "height of cool [...] an icon of a cinema to which he didn't belong." The world has also been shocked by the death of the singular actor Michael K. Williams. Known to many as Omar Little from The Wire, Williams also worked with auteurs like Paul Thomas Anderson, Ava Duvernay, Martin Scorsese, and Steve McQueen. As his The Wire co-star Wendall Pierce says, Williams gave "voice to the human condition."Mondo is kicking off its Mondo x Death Waltz 10th Anniversary celebration with a deluxe reissue of...
- 9/10/2021
- MUBI
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. An unnamed young girl wearing a heavy shalwar kameez and mehndi looks down apathetically on her wedding day. The camera captures her blank face reflected in a mirror. The framing abstracts the figure from her society, culture, and time, defamiliarizing traditional Pakistani wedding customs. Mixing the political with the mystical—a common thread in Jamil Dehlavi's oeuvre—the director's feature debut The Blood of Hussain (1980) uses the beloved Islamic tale of the killing of Imam Hussain by the hands of a despot as a framework to explore the tyrannical infiltration of the oppressive, national army into the local spaces of Pakistan. Though the film deserves praise for its prophetic illustration of the military takeover—it eerily wrapped production a month before the real-life 1977 coup d'état—its exploration of...
- 8/31/2021
- MUBI
Political, subversive and artistically maverick, Pakistan’s leading filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi’s remarkable body of work stands out for its originality and engagement with social and political questions. His vision captures the diversity and power of both the religious and the secular in everyday life.
Following August’s Dehlavi season at BFI Southbank, on 22 October 2018 the BFI brings his 1980 film The Blood of Hussain (banned in Pakistan) to Blu-ray/DVD for the first time anywhere. This Dual Format Edition includes Towers of Silence (1975) and other special features.
Synopsis
In The Blood of Hussain, the annual mourning procession for the murdered Hussain, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, is the setting for an allegorical tale of revolutionary struggle against injustice and oppression. Banned by successive military regimes in Pakistan, the film has achieved legendary status in its country of origin.
Dehlavi’s Towers of Silence weaves scenes of Zoroastrian...
Following August’s Dehlavi season at BFI Southbank, on 22 October 2018 the BFI brings his 1980 film The Blood of Hussain (banned in Pakistan) to Blu-ray/DVD for the first time anywhere. This Dual Format Edition includes Towers of Silence (1975) and other special features.
Synopsis
In The Blood of Hussain, the annual mourning procession for the murdered Hussain, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, is the setting for an allegorical tale of revolutionary struggle against injustice and oppression. Banned by successive military regimes in Pakistan, the film has achieved legendary status in its country of origin.
Dehlavi’s Towers of Silence weaves scenes of Zoroastrian...
- 10/7/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Over the decades, the film-maker has told transgressive tales of the country’s existential turmoil. Such commentary, however, has come at a price
“My films aren’t really shown in Pakistan,” laughs the country’s greatest living – and most radical – film director, who now lives in a converted chapel in Camden, north London. “They’re a bit too risque.”
To catch a Jamil Dehlavi film in his homeland is tricky. The last time was in 2006, when Infinite Justice, his docudrama about an American reporter held hostage and beheaded in Karachi, was shown somewhere on the Arabian seafront, the same Karachi shore you see in his films, shaded by the heaviness of monsoon clouds, the beige pallor of the light, and the tracks of sea turtles laying their eggs along the sand.
“My films aren’t really shown in Pakistan,” laughs the country’s greatest living – and most radical – film director, who now lives in a converted chapel in Camden, north London. “They’re a bit too risque.”
To catch a Jamil Dehlavi film in his homeland is tricky. The last time was in 2006, when Infinite Justice, his docudrama about an American reporter held hostage and beheaded in Karachi, was shown somewhere on the Arabian seafront, the same Karachi shore you see in his films, shaded by the heaviness of monsoon clouds, the beige pallor of the light, and the tracks of sea turtles laying their eggs along the sand.
- 8/9/2018
- by Fatima Bhutto
- The Guardian - Film News
Sir Christopher Lee Film Jinnah To Premiere on Turner Classic Movies
In keeping with the last wishes of his dear friend Sir Christopher Lee actor, producer, 70mm camera operator, film authority extraordinaire, adventurer, stunt man and now distributor Douglas Dunning, in association with Vision Films and director Jamil Dehlavi, has licensed Sir Christopher’s 1998 film Jinnah to Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The film will be presented ...
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In keeping with the last wishes of his dear friend Sir Christopher Lee actor, producer, 70mm camera operator, film authority extraordinaire, adventurer, stunt man and now distributor Douglas Dunning, in association with Vision Films and director Jamil Dehlavi, has licensed Sir Christopher’s 1998 film Jinnah to Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The film will be presented ...
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- 3/16/2016
- by Jonathan Stryker
- Horror News
Sir Christopher Lee Film Jinnah Gets Distribution Deal
In keeping with the last wishes of his dear friend Sir Christopher Lee, actor, producer, 70mm camera operator, film authority extraordinaire, adventurer, stunt man and now distributor Douglas Dunning has signed with Vision Films & Jamil Dehlavi for the North American theatrical rights for one year to release Sir Christopher’s 1998 film Jinnah. The goal is ...
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In keeping with the last wishes of his dear friend Sir Christopher Lee, actor, producer, 70mm camera operator, film authority extraordinaire, adventurer, stunt man and now distributor Douglas Dunning has signed with Vision Films & Jamil Dehlavi for the North American theatrical rights for one year to release Sir Christopher’s 1998 film Jinnah. The goal is ...
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- 8/16/2015
- by Jonathan Stryker
- Horror News
Rashid Karapiet, who has died aged 84, was an actor, singer, playwright, broadcaster and teacher. He was not a star but a jobbing professional, one of the unsung heroes of the theatrical profession, a good companion with, as Tom Stoppard described it, a "vivid" personality. Rashid was also a much-loved and loyal friend.
The second of five children of Edward and Marie-Therese Carrapiett, he was born Reginald Carrapiett in India, and went to school at St Columba's, Delhi, and then St Joseph's and the Agricultural College in Allahabad. He travelled to Britain in the 1950s to train at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school, then took a teacher-training course at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and adopted Rashid Karapiet as his professional name. An accomplished linguist, he taught for many years in Germany and the Netherlands.
In 1960, Rashid appeared in Santha Rama Rau's dramatisation of A Passage to India...
The second of five children of Edward and Marie-Therese Carrapiett, he was born Reginald Carrapiett in India, and went to school at St Columba's, Delhi, and then St Joseph's and the Agricultural College in Allahabad. He travelled to Britain in the 1950s to train at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school, then took a teacher-training course at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and adopted Rashid Karapiet as his professional name. An accomplished linguist, he taught for many years in Germany and the Netherlands.
In 1960, Rashid appeared in Santha Rama Rau's dramatisation of A Passage to India...
- 5/1/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Controversial film is banned by the Pakistan military government
There's nothing quite like being on the jury at the Taormina Film Festival where, on the final night in the vast and ancient amphitheatre overlooked by permanently steaming Mount Etna, the prizes are dispensed in front of 30 000 excited Sicilians as prelude to the Italian Oscar awards.
That meant 18 million television viewers watching as well, with each juror introduced either to cheers or catcalls (cheers for me, since Italy after all beat England and they could afford to be generous).
This year, though, there were better moments for Britain than just that since the festival's Special Jury Prize for the most striking and original first feature went to Chris Petit's Radio On and John Schlesinger won a Donatello award for his general work as director.
Petit's film, on the eve of its release in Italy, is the first British Film Institute...
There's nothing quite like being on the jury at the Taormina Film Festival where, on the final night in the vast and ancient amphitheatre overlooked by permanently steaming Mount Etna, the prizes are dispensed in front of 30 000 excited Sicilians as prelude to the Italian Oscar awards.
That meant 18 million television viewers watching as well, with each juror introduced either to cheers or catcalls (cheers for me, since Italy after all beat England and they could afford to be generous).
This year, though, there were better moments for Britain than just that since the festival's Special Jury Prize for the most striking and original first feature went to Chris Petit's Radio On and John Schlesinger won a Donatello award for his general work as director.
Petit's film, on the eve of its release in Italy, is the first British Film Institute...
- 8/2/2012
- by Derek Malcolm
- The Guardian - Film News
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
- 2/27/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Lionsgate Home Entertainment sent Fango the cover art (see it below) for its DVD of Train, which we initially reported on here. Starring Thora Birch (pictured) and written/directed by Gideon Raff, the movie, in which a college wrestling team is butchered while traveling on an Eastern European train, arrives November 17. See our Raff interview in Fango #288, on sale in October.
IFC Films and Mpi Home Video sent along info and covers for a quartet of genre titles they’re jointly releasing in October. Streeting Oct. 13 are The Objective, the paranormal thriller centering on a group of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, directed and co-written by The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick (see our review here), and Left Bank, an acclaimed occult chiller by Belgian director Pieter Van Hees about a young woman encountering frightening phenomena after moving into her boyfriend’s apartment. Coming Oct. 27 are Sauna, a Finnish...
IFC Films and Mpi Home Video sent along info and covers for a quartet of genre titles they’re jointly releasing in October. Streeting Oct. 13 are The Objective, the paranormal thriller centering on a group of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, directed and co-written by The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick (see our review here), and Left Bank, an acclaimed occult chiller by Belgian director Pieter Van Hees about a young woman encountering frightening phenomena after moving into her boyfriend’s apartment. Coming Oct. 27 are Sauna, a Finnish...
- 8/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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