HYDERABAD FILM CLUB NEWS LETTER DECEMBER 2010 Editor : Bh.S.S. Prakash Reddy

Vol.XXlV Issue : 10 Rs. 2

POSTMEN IN THE MOUNTAINS

RNI No. 44862/86 Registered as a News Paper BOOK-PACKET (Printed Matter) If undelivered, please return to : The Secretary, HYDERABAD FILM CLUB, 103, Padmavathi Mansion, Gayathri Nagar, S.R.Nagar (P.O.) Hyderabad - 500 038. email : [email protected] PROGRAMME at Sri Sarathi Studios Preview Theatre, Ameerpet 14-12-2010 6.30 p.m. : 7 YEARS Tuesday (France/2006/Color/86 mins.) in collaboration with Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad

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DECEMBER 2010 7 YEARS GIE (7 ans) (Indonesia/2005/Color/147 mins.) (France/2006/Color/86 mins.) Directed by : Riri Riza Director : Jean-Pascal Hattu Written by : Riri Riza Cast : Valérie Donzelli , Bruno Todeschini, Cyril Cast : Nicholas Saputra, Wulan Guritno, Robby Troley, Pablo de la Torre, Nadia Kaci Tumewu A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in Soe Hok Gie is an activist who lived in the sixties. a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s Set in the darkest era of Indonesian modern history, consistently unpredictable and finely wrought char- acter study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct new voice from a promising young director. 7 Years opens with Maite ironing clothes, but for whom, and why with such tension? Hattu soon reveals that Maite’s husband Vincent (a brooding Bruno Todeschini) is in prison for an unspecified crime, and that she has promised to wait for him and attend to his laundry (if not his conjugal needs) during his incarceration. On one of her weekly visits, Maite meets Jean, an oddly inquisitive and boldly flirtatious (as only the French can be) prison warden, and soon the two commence a joyless affair. Seemingly smitten with Maite, Jean, GIE is an interpretation of what happened based on his journal. He is a history student when his world stretches between politics and personal life. A critical young man, he sounds his great concerns about his collapsing nation. Yet, he is sensitive and romantic. He loves to explore the mountains, to admire the great beauty of nature. His life is a clash between the high drama of national political events and the small world in a gesture of kindness to his lover, eases up on her of friendship and romance. He is falling apart when husband behind bars; the two become pals and even he sees that his constant battle for justice and truth engage in some homoerotic shower talk. The men’s gives labor to another dictatorial regime, and caused particularly unusual Stockholm Syndrome relation- the massacre of millions suspected communists, in- ship is further complicated when Maite begins to ques- cluding his childhood friend. He continues to fight but tion Jean’s motives: Is he really in love with her, or is his uncompromised idealism drives people away. His Vincent playing some sort of behind-bars game by best friends left him. The woman he loves rejects goading his warden to make the moves on his gull- him. From time to time, nature is a place where Gie ible wife? st finds peace and it’s where his life comes to an end. 1 Asian Film Festival of Tenali - 2010 Gie dies on the summit of the highest mountain in Tenali Cultural Film Society, Tenali is Java, just a day before his 27th birthday. organizing 1st Asian Film Festival of Tenali - 2010 from 4th to 8th December, 2010 at Ramakrishna AWARDS Theatre, by screening 5 films every day at 9 am , * Official entry from Indonesia for Best Foreign Language 11am, 2.30pm, 5pm & 7 pm. The festival show Film at the 78th . casing about 28 films of 15 countries. * In competition in the ASEAN category at the 2006 Bangkok The inaugural Function will be held on 4th International Film Festival. December at 5pm by showing Andhra Pradesh * Awarded Best Film at the 2005 . State Governments Golden Nandi Award - 2009 Best film "Sontha Ooru". ATTENTION PLEASE !! Eminent film makers from Telugu Film Members are requested to send their industry are attending the Festival. There will be email ID to [email protected] with their an Open Forum everyday from 1.30pm to 2.30pm full name and Membership Number DECEMBER 2010 POSTMEN IN THE MOUNTAINS (2009/Marathi/Color/128 mins.) (China /2003/Color/93 mins.) Directed by : Paresh Mokashi Directed by : Huo Jianqi Written by : Paresh Mokashi Written by : Si Wu Music by : Narendra Bhide Music : Wang Xiaofeng Camera : Amalendu Choudary Cast : Ten Rujun, Cast : Nandu Madhav, Vibhavaari Deshpande, Mohit Gokhale, Atharva Karve, Dilip The film is set in the mountainous regions of the Joglekar, Ketan Karande, Dhiresh Joshi western Hunan province in the early 1980s. At the Harishchandrachi Factory depicting the struggle film’s start, a young man (Liu Ye) begins his first jour- of in making ney as a postman at the mountainous rural areas of the aforesaid regions. His father (Ten Rujun), a vet- eran postman forced to retire due to a bad knee, de- cides to accompany him together with the family’s faithful dog, Buddy.

The father walks his son through the nitty-gritty of the job, and the son realizes the mailman job entails not just the sending of letters. He witnesses his father’s deep friendship with the villagers, and partici- pates in a wedding celebration with the Dong people. The film includes a number of memory flashbacks, as well as many pop songs played on the son’s tran- sistor radio (including Michael Learns to Rock’s “That’s Why You Go Away”, which is an anachronism given that the film is set in the early 1980s).

AWARDS Golden Awards, 1999 in 1913, ’s first feature film, thus the birth of Indian = Best Actor - Ten Rujun cinema. = Best Film Harishchandrachi Factory is the directorial debut Awards of the Japanese Academy, 2002 of Paresh Mokashi who won the Best Director award = Best Foreign Film (nominated) at International Film Festival, where the film was Mainichi Film Concours, 2002 shown. In September 2009, it was selected as India’s = Best Foreign Language Film official entry to Academy Award in the Best Foreign Montréal World Film Festival, 2002 Language Film Category. = People’s Choice Award The film is the story about the beginning of the = Grand Prix des Amériques (nominated) Indian film industry, set in 1913, when two business partners fall out resulting in one leaving the company. As the family struggle to survive Phalke (Nandu Printing Courtesy Madhav) decides to make his own silent motion pic- ture along with the support of his family. He travels to navya printers, Rajbhavan Road, Somajiguda, England to learn about the new medium and after he Hyderabad - 500 082 . Ph : 040 - 23314147 returns brings together a team of actors and techni- cians to produce his first film about the story of Raja Printed, Published and Edited by Bh.S.S.Prakash Reddy, Secretary, Harishchandra. Through all the hard work the movie Hyderabad Film Club, becomes a hit thus marking the beginning of one of 103, Padmavathi Mansion, Gayathri Nagar, the world’s biggest film industry. Hyderabad- 500 038. Cell : 09391020243 Processing and Printing at Navya Printers, Hyderabad-82. DECEMBER 2010