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Telluride Film Festival Unveils Eclectic Lineup
Mixing high-profile star power with offbeat titles, the 40th Telluride Film Festival is offering a glimpse of an eclectic array of awards contenders over Labor Day weekend. The lineup, unveiled...
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BFI London Film Festival Unveils Lineup
The Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave” and Alfonso Cuaron’s 3D sci-fi thriller “Gravity” are all set to screen at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The...
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India Makes Surprise Oscar Choice
The selection of "The Good Road" as India's foreign-language Oscar contender and the snub for hot favorite, "The Lunchbox" spark controversy.
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Could the Oscars’ Foreign Language Award Use an Overhaul?
From India, surprising news: Ritesh Batra’s acclaimed Cannes debut “The Lunchbox” will not be India’s submission for the best foreign-language film award at the Oscars. The news from Japan was no less...
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Oscar Selection Committee Forces Indian Filmmaker to Apologize for Slam
Oscars touch a nerve around the world. The Film Federation of India has written to filmmaker Ritesh Batra demanding an apology for his Facebook posting that set off a media firestorm when he criticized...
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Zagreb Festival Prize Delivered to ‘Lunchbox’
ZAGREB, Croatia — The international features jury at the Zagreb Film Festival, which is one of the Balkan region’s top movie events, delivered the top prize to “The Lunchbox” Saturday at the closing...
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‘The Grandmaster’ Grandly Masters Asian Film Awards
Martial arts fantasy “The Grandmaster” dominates proceedings at the Asian Film Awards.
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‘Corrections Class,’ ‘Chrieg’ Top Marrakech Fest
Shining a light on two new European talents to track, the 14th Marrakech Film Festival awarded its top prize, the Golden Star, to Russian Ivan Tverdovsky’s “Corrections Class” while Swiss Simon...
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Berlin Co-Production Market Adds Projects by ‘Lunchbox,’‘Tribe,’‘In Bloom’...
LONDON — The Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 8-10 as part of the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market, has unveiled a lineup of 36 feature film projects from 28 countries. The...
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India’s Film Bazaar Reveals Co-Production Market Projects
“Pirates”, to be directed by Rishi Raj More, fresh off the Sundance Screenwriters Lab India and produced by “The Lunchbox” director Ritesh Batra’s Poetic Licence Motion Pictures will be pitched at Film...
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10 Directors to Watch: Ritesh Batra Follows Hindi ‘Lunchbox’ With Two...
For Mumbai-born director Batra, directing an English-language film, let alone two, wasn’t necessarily a goal. But after the success of his Hindi-lingo debut, “The Lunchbox,” which premiered in Critics’...
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Film Review: ‘The Sense of an Ending’
A couple years back, festival audiences fell in love with Indian director Ritesh Batra’s genuine gem of a debut, “The Lunchbox,” in which an accountant on the brink of retirement exchanges intimate...
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Film Review: ‘Our Souls at Night’
Addie and Louis don't exactly have the love affair to end all love affairs planned, except in the sense that they hope it'll be their last.
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Ritesh Batra Puts His Heart Into ‘Soul’
Ritesh Batra’s “Our Souls at Night” will unspool out of competition at the Venice Film Festival and its stars, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the...
View ArticleSundance: ‘Photograph,’ From ‘Our Souls at Night’ Director Ritesh Batra,...
Sales agent The Match Factory has sealed a raft of deals in major territories for romantic drama “Photograph,” the new film from “Our Souls at Night” and “The Lunchbox” director Ritesh Batra, ahead of...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: ‘Photograph’
Six years after the international crossover success of “The Lunchbox,” along comes “Photograph” to prove, whatever Thomas Wolfe may think, that you can go home again. Writer-director Ritesh Batra’s...
View ArticleBollywood Actress Tabu to Open Indian Film Fest L.A.
Indian actress Tabu (“The Namesake”) will kick off the 17th edition of the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles in April with “Andhadhun,” directed by Sriram Raghavan. Running April 11-14 at the Regal L.A....
View ArticleRitesh Batra’s ‘Photograph’ to Play N.Y. Indian Festival
The New York Indian Film Festival has announced three of the films it will showcase during its annual week-long event in May. The festival, which will take place May 7-12 at the Village East Cinemas in...
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