Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
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Founded | 2016 |
Language | International |
Cult Critic Movie Awards is an IMDb Award listing live screening award event that takes place in Kolkata and features art-house cult films from across the world. The Cult Critic Films Magazine started this award event in 2017 in Kolkata. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The JEAN LUC GODARD AWARDS is given out each year for significant movies and people in a variety of categories. [5] [6]
The award is given out each year for significant movies and people in a variety of categories. [7]
Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967) and Goodbye to Language (2014).
Breathless is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia. The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.
Notre musique is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.
In Praise of Love is a 2001 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The black-and-white and color drama was shot by Julien Hirsch and Christophe Pollock. Godard has famously stated that "a film should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." This aphorism is illustrated by In Praise of Love, which reverses the order of past and present. It was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Subrata Sen, is a Bengali Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and producer.
A Letter to Freddy Buache is a 1982 French short documentary film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and addressed to the Swiss film critic Freddy Buache. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the French New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut.
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960.
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 4 July 1961.
The 15th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 25 June to 6 July 1965. The festival started selecting the jury members on its own rather than countries sending designated representatives.
Venkiteswaran Chittur Subramanian is an Indian film critic, professor, documentary filmmaker, writer and occasional subtitler from Chalakudi, Kerala, India, who writes predominantly in English and Malayalam. He won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2009 and shared the National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film with M.R. Rajan for directing the documentary film, Pakarnattam in 1995.
Arijit Singh is an Indian playback singer and music composer. The recipient of several accolades including two National Film Awards and seven Filmfare Awards, he has recorded songs in several Indian languages, predominantly Hindi and Bengali. He is noted for his ability of performing songs in diverse music genres and is acclaimed for his significant contributions to the contemporary Bollywood Music. Singh is also considered as one of the best singers of his generation.
Faces Places is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and JR. It follows the pair as they travel around rural France creating portraits of the people they meet. The film was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the L'Œil d'or award, and released on 28 June 2017 in France, and on 6 October 2017 in the United States. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
The Saviour Brig. Pritam Singh is a Punjabi docudrama, that lasted from November 1947 to November 1948. It was directed by Paramjeet Singh Kattu and won National Film Award for Best Investigative Film at 66th National Film Awards.
Adieu Godard is a 2021 Odia language independent drama film written and directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya. The film world premiered at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival 2021. In India, the film got officially selected at festivals like IFFK (Kerala), KIFF (Kolkata), Bengaluru (BIFFES), Pune (PIFF) etc. Adieu Godard also won Best Film Award in the Indian Languages competition at the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival 2022 and the 'Third Best Indian Cinema Award' at the 13th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2022.
Virgin Spring Cinefest (VSC) is an IMDb Award listing International Film Festival. It is an annual major award screening event that takes place in Kolkata and features art-house films from across the world. The event was started in 2017. The festival has been named in honour of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film "Virgin Spring".
The 28th Kolkata International Film Festival was held from 15th to 22nd December 2022 at Netaji Indoor Stadium, in Kolkata, India. The festival opened with 1973 film Abhimaan, by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. 183 films including 130 feature films and 52 short and documentary films from 42 countries were screened during 7 days of the festival. The opening ceremony was attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Mahesh Bhatt and cricketer Sourav Ganguly.
Cult Critic Review Aggregator is a monthly digital publication that aggregates reviews of films, web series, music video, VR games, application software, websites, books, paintings, and tech products and professionals. Cult Critic Review Aggregator was launched in January, 2017 with the motto, "The Unbiased Evaluator."
Paramjeet Singh Kattu is an Indian filmmaker and academic known for his directorial work in The Saviour Brig. Pritam Singh which won the National Film Award for Best Investigative Film.