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unusual facts about world cinema



DearCinema.com

DearCinema.com is an Indian web site on world cinema that focuses on film festivals, art-house cinema, independent and short films.It was founded by Bikas Mishra and launched in February 2007.

Mohan Polamar

Mohan Polamar is the founder and co-MD of Palador Pictures, a company that acquires award-winning foreign language films called world cinema and distributes them via different modes including DVD


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Bruce Sweeney

His upcoming film The Dick Knost Show has been selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Curt Truninger

Tim Dutton (Ally McBeal, Bourne Identity) won first prize at both the Portland Festival of World Cinema and the Monaco Film Festival.

Gabriele Muccino

He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after L'ultimo bacio won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of the American film industry.

Leticia Tonos

Her upcoming film Cristo Rey has been selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Markéta Irglová

The film won the World Cinema Audience Award for a dramatic film at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Mohamad Issack

His debut film Agadam, made in the Tamil language, has been awarded the Guinness record for the longest uncut film, with a running time of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 30 seconds, a first in world cinema.

Nidhanaya

In 2013, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur has collaborated with the World Cinema Foundation (WCF) for the restoration of the film.

Seesa

Seesa is the remake of Tamil film Agadam which has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest uncut film which has a running time for 2 hours, 3 minutes and 30 seconds, a first in world cinema.i This film also beat the record held by Russian Ark, which used a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot.

The Big Swallow

Although the director's, "purpose was primarily comic (and doubtless inspired by unwanted attention from increasingly savvy passers-by while filming his actuality shorts)," he creates, "one of the most striking genre entries," and, "makes imaginative use of an extreme close-up to create one of the seminal images of early British (and world) cinema, as effective in its way as the slashed eyeball of Un Chien Andalou (1929), and of just as much appeal to the Surrealist movement."

Video Classics

labels including The Nostalgia Merchant, Sports World Cinema, VCL, Media, Electric Blue, Wizard Video, Movies at Midnight, and Filmways.