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WEEK 17 OF LOCKDOWN SERIES CONTINUES...

coronavirus is a gift !!!

Ekta Films have compiled a list of movies to watch during this crisis to turn this unfortunate event into a gift. So for WEEK 17 we have compiled a list of Coming of Age Movies (Part II). Enjoy the movies and watch out for more.

Coming of Age Movies (Part II)

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Director: Gus Van Sant

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Movie Scene: My Boy's Wicked Smart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdsjNGCGz4

Fun facts:
● When Matt Damon was in his fifth year at Harvard, he was in a playwriting class. The culmination of it was to write a one-act play, and he just started writing a movie, which, with the help of Ben Affleck, became this movie.
● Minnie Driver's character Skylar is named after Damon's girlfriend, Skylar Satenstein, who left Damon for Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich before filming began. Damon and Driver became romantically involved during production.
● Gus Van Sant painted the picture that hangs in Sean Maguire's (Robin Williams') office.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiPHC_VQFY
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Juno (2007)
Director: Jason Reitman

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Movie Scene: Juno tells Leah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvpcjbEdQU

Fun facts:
● The hamburger phone in the movie is owned by the writer, Diablo Cody.
● Jason Reitman used the different seasons to frame the story in because he thought they mirrored the three trimesters of Juno's pregnancy.
● The original title of the film was going to be "Junebug", but was changed so it would not be confused with Amy Adams' Junebug (2005).

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuN0Z65sp5c
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Persepolis (2007)
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Movie Scene: Dress Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNzQjvhKoPk

Fun facts:
● Iran's government sent a letter to the French embassy in Tehran to protest against the movie and pressured the organizers of the 2007 Bangkok Film Festival to drop it from the lineup.
● The title, "Persepolis," means "Persian City" in Greek. The word is the Greek transliteration of the Old Persian word "Parsa" ("City of Persians"). Parsa, or Persepolis, was an actual ancient city that existed in Persia c. 550-330 BC. Its ruins still stand in southern Iran today.
● Catherine Deneuve, who voices Marjane's mother, and Chiara Mastroianni, who voices Marjane, are mother and daughter in real life.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXHeKuBzPY
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The Motel (2005)
Director: Michael Kang

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGM7CTdB8o
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Rushmore (1998)
Director: Wes Anderson

The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.

Movie Scene: The Gentleman's Approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_jWsElEpn4

Fun facts:
● Jason Schwartzman came to his audition wearing a prep-school blazer which sported a Rushmore patch he had made himself.
● When Bill Murray first read the script, he thought it was so fantastic that he said he wanted to do it so badly he would do it for free.
● One thousand eight hundred teenagers were auditioned from the United States, Canada, and England for the part of Max Fischer.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVdXXG3KN8
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City of God
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund (co-director)

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Fun fact
● Leandro Firmino (Zé Pequeno) really was from the City of God and had no ambitions to be an actor, he only went to the audition to keep his friend company.
● The shot where we see a lot of dead bodies lying on huge blocks of concrete was recreated from an award-winning photograph taken during the drug war portrayed in the movie.
● The correct translation of the names is:

Buscapé = Rocket (literally: foot-seeker, a firecracker type)
Zé Pequeno = Little Zé (Zé comes from José = Joseph)
Dadinho = Little dice
Cabeleira = Big Hair/Shaggy
Mané Galinha = Chicken Mané (Does not imply a coward in Portuguese slang, but usually means "Womanizer") Mané is short for Manuel
Alicate = Pliers
Barbantinho = Little string
Cabeção = Big Head
Filé-com-Fritas = Steak with fries
Paraíba = Paraíba is the name of a state in the north east of Brazil, the state where the character comes from

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUOO4Itgmw
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The Graduate (1967)
Director: Mike Nichols

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Movie Scene: drifting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EIUV1Zn-r4

Fun facts:
● When Dustin Hoffman showed up at producer Joseph E. Levine's office for a casting interview, Levine mistook him for a window cleaner. So Hoffman, in character, cleaned a window.
● Within a year of the movie's release, plastic manufacturing companies became enormously successful. Many people attribute this to Walter Brooke's character's quote about "plastics."
● The red Italian sports car Benjamin drives throughout the movie is a 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600, also known as the Duetto.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnSucVko1s
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WEEK 16 OF LOCKDOWN SERIES CONTINUES...

coronavirus is a gift !!!

Ekta Films have compiled a list of movies to watch during this crisis to turn this unfortunate event into a gift. So for WEEK 16 we have compiled a list of Survival Movies. Enjoy the movies and watch out for more.

Survival Movies

Gravity (2013)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.

Movie Scene: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCx5kry7mWs&list=PLIy76b_ysfBl5uRGKaqt_YlDfsQk0EsGo

Fun facts:
● The film's cascade of debris is a very real possibility. This scenario is known as the Kessler syndrome, named after N.A.S.A. scientist Donald J. Kessler who first proposed the theory in 1978. A cascading Kessler syndrome involving an object the size of the International Space Station would trigger a catastrophic chain-reaction of debris. The orbiting debris field would make it impossible to launch space exploration missions or satellites for many decades.
● The opening scene, from the establishing view of Earth to Dr. Stone detaching from the structure, is a single, continuous shot lasting about twelve and a half minutes.
● Everything except the ending was shot on a green screen.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4
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Life of Pi (2012)
Director: Ang Lee

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Movie Scene: I Would Have Died by Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SjI2N-Qh4

Fun facts:
● Pi is on the lifeboat for 227 days. A good approximation for the number pi is 22/7.
● The Japanese insurance report, seen briefly while the "Writer" glances at the report folder and newspaper clipping, indicates a report number "250663", 25 June 1963 is the birth-date of Yann Martel, the author of the 2001 novel "Life of Pi".
● Pi does not write out Pi in full in the book, he just gives the traditional 3.14 (pi cannot be written in full as it is infinite)

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The Revenant (2015)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Movie Scene: Bear attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlVRHsVzE4

Fun facts:
● Leonardo DiCaprio chose to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, even though he is vegetarian. He also had to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.
● The real Hugh Glass did not have a son and there is no record that he was ever married.
● The film takes place in 1823.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0
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Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Director: Taika Waititi

A young boy in Hi**er's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

Movie Scene: Jojo Meets Elsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvSs2bb38dA

Fun facts:
● Taika Waititi discovered in his research that WWII Germany was very vibrant and fashionable, and was interested in shying away from traditional war films showing it as dreary and dark, instead presenting the town as a seemingly celebratory place and dressing characters as stylishly as possible. He liked the idea that everything seems happy, but just underneath the surface "the third Reich is crumbling, and, you know, the dream is over."
● Taika Waititi described the film as a love letter to his mother, and single parents everywhere: "It wasn't until I was a grown up and I had kids of my own that I realized 'oh, these parent people, they make a lot of sacrifices, it's really hard raising a kid!'"
● The film is based on Christine Leunens's novel Caging Skies, a book that Waititi's mom loved before turning him onto it as well. "Imaginary Hi**er is not in the book," he adds, although the rest of the story's main characters are.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI
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The Host (2006)
Director: B**g Joon Ho

A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Fun facts:
● Co-Writer and Director B**g Joon Ho and the designer of the creature nicknamed it Steve Buscemi, based on the actor's screen persona and the way he acted in Fargo (1996).
● The film takes place in 2000, 2002, and 2006.
● The event described in the beginning of the film is based on an actual event. In February 2000 at a U.S. Military facility located in the center of Seoul, a U.S. Military civilian employee named Mr. McFarland was ordered to dispose of formaldehyde by dumping it into the sewer system that led to the Han River, despite the objection of a South Korean subordinate. The government attempted to prosecute Mr. McFarland in court, but the U.S. Military refused to hand over the custody of Mr. McFarland to the South Korean legal system. Later, a South Korean judge convicted Mr. McFarland in absentia. The public was enraged at the government's inability to enforce its law on its own soil. In 2005, nearly five years after the original incident, Mr. McFarland was finally found guilty in a court in his presence.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRTy26s4hw
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Nobody Knows (2004)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Fun facts:
● According to the director Hirokazu Koreeda, though Nobody Knows (2004) was inspired by the true story of the Sugamo child abandonment case, it is not a factual recounting, and only the settings and the ending of the story are based on the true story. Also, the film's version of the story was far less grisly than the actual event upon which the movie is based on.
● The director Hirokazu Koreeda held extensive auditions to cast the four children, and the actors were all nonprofessionals. Also, during the casting, a little girl came in with noisy sandals. The director liked it so much that he brought it over to Yuki's character when searching for her mother. He also did not give the children detailed explanations of their roles, because he wanted them to be natural.
● Hirokazu Koreeda wrote the first draft of the screenplay fifteen years before the film was actually made. At that point it was titled "Wonderful Sunday" and unfolded from Akira's subjective point of view, ending with a fantasy sequence in which the entire family (the children, the mother and the various fathers) are reunited for a Sunday outing.

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8COIEaleR8
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Director: Roberto Benigni

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Movie Scene: Creative Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lTSqc1UnLU

Fun facts:
● Guido's wife, Dora, is played by Roberto Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.
● Roberto Benigni says the title comes from a quote by Leon Trotsky. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin's assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, "life is beautiful".
● In Italian, the answer to the "Snow White" riddle is seven "minuti" - a play on words between "minutes" and "dwarves".

watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYEQP8gx3w
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WEEK 15 OF LOCKDOWN SERIES CONTINUES...

coronavirus is a gift !!!

Ekta Films have compiled a list of movies to watch during this crisis to turn this unfortunate event into a gift. So for WEEK 15; on the eve of Guru Purnima, we would like to dedicated this post to legendary directors and their movies that inspired generation so without further ado, we present you with; teachersSpecial (Part I). Enjoy the post and watch out for more.

teachersSpecial (Part I)

Tulsi Ghimire

Trade Mark
● Frequently casts his relatives in important roles
● Often casts himself in mentor role
● Tulsi Ghimire has also been a screenwriter, editor, cameraman, actor and lyricist.

Kusume Rumal
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er7Pb0-ToHo

Lahure
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKAhaAc2OOA

Chino
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlR3T0r7exw

Deuta
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfyZ9ajZtfA

Dakshina
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPdOzT6lmM8

Balidaan
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3NgIT23tlQ

Darpan Chhaya
watch full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQG-vIuCe_4

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Trade Mark
● Avant-garde, surrealist films that later develop a cult following
● Often casts himself, his son and wife
● Frequently uses circus characters (mime, clown, dwarf, animals etc)

El Topo
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uqb4Jy0GTg

The Holy Mountain
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1erfq2TrbE

Santa Sangre
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpl8bWYk5RU

The Rainbow Thief
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyJ37at7_UM

Endless Poetry
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyruCTA2I4
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Jim Jarmusch

Trade Mark
● Stationary camera (deadpan). His films often involve travlers as well as life after midnight. Shows and views the American landscape from a non-commercial viewpoint (e.g. the tavern were everybody knows your name instead of franchised stripmalls)
● Often casts musicians as actors in his films
● The narrative structure of his films mostly lack clear plot progression and focus more on mood and character development
● Japanese tourist
● Frequently casts Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and John Lurie

Stranger Than Paradise
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEJlE-5GFA0

Dead Man
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2nQMfLqwg

Coffee and Ci******es
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM6Mpn0-eyQ

Broken Flowers
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_TB7MkrGyc

Only Lovers Left Alive
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOKvWrwYFo
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Hayao Miyazaki

Trade Mark
● His films usually focus on young protagonists or have children that play key roles in the plot.
● Frequently includes scenes or sequences in which characters fly
● Frequently uses music by Jô Hisaishi
● Frequently makes references to nature, ecology and pollution in his films
● Frequently makes references to nature, ecology and pollution in his films

My Neighbor Totoro
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92a7Hj0ijLs

Kiki's Delivery Service
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bG17OYs-GA

Porco Rosso
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awEC-aLDzjs

Princess Mononoke
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OiMOHRDs14

Spirited Away
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXuk9QqQkk
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Jafar Panahi

Trade Mark
● Iranian form of neorealism
● Overtly expressed anger
● Frequently casts female as a lead protagonist

Notable Movies

The White Balloon
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4l_tyPC0Y

The Mirror
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFa2zT0PyI

The Circle
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FahWs_ctg

Offside
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6KAdkrbko4

Taxi
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2tblIkL4g
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Ingmar Bergman

Trade Mark
● Close-ups of faces
● Close-ups of ticking clocks
● Dynamic use of shadows
● Religious themes
● Frequently has a character surnamed "Jacobi"

The Seventh Seal
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtkFei4wRjE

Wild Strawberries
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_j7y_QyM8

Persona
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxvetvKfho

Autumn Sonata
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDOTDB2cTSg

F***y and Alexander
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkszXVEUHco
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Wes Anderson

Trade Mark
● Makes obsessive and comedic use of rostrum camera insert shots, foregrounding the minutiae of books and other documents.
● Has ended all his movies with a slow-motion shot, with the exception of The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
● Frequently casts Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Andrew Wilson, Bill Murray, Kumar Pallana, Dipak Pallana, Brian Tenenbaum, Stephen Dignan, Bob Balaban, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, and Anjelica Huston.
● Movies often focus around a broken or unorthodox family circle
● The titlecards are almost always in the font Futura Bold, most commonly in yellow color.

Rushmore
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVdXXG3KN8

The Royal Tenenbaums
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DNAI9bhBFU

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpU0DZXTGA0

Fantastic Mr. Fox
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo

The Grand Budapest Hotel
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk
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Alfonso Cuarón

Trade Mark
● Use of long continuous and digitally blended shots
● When directing, he flashes the title of the movie both at the beginning and at the end of all of his films.
● Often uses restlessly moving camera work
● Often uses wide camera angles
● Frequently uses hand-held cameras

Sólo con Tu Pareja
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_m6cba_YQ

Y Tu Mamá También
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1LQbtRuAM

Children of Men
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o

Gravity
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4

Roma
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BS27ngZtxg
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Francis Ford Coppola

Trade Mark
● Includes the original author's name in the title of his adaptations (i.e., Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1972), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)).
● Releases re-edited versions of his work years later (e.g., The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979)).
● Protagonists are tough inside who want change the world around, more often than not for selfish reasons.
● Often works with cinematographer Gordon Willis and producers Fred Roos and Gray Frederickson.
● Often casts his own real-life extended family members in his films.

The Godfather
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1S34973zA

The Conversation
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_LxiRETWA

The Godfather: Part II
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O1Iy9od7-A

Apocalypse Now
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTjG-Aux_yQ

Jack
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7TapUWu3I
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Stanley Kubrick

Trade Mark
● Nearly all of his films contain a narration at some point
● Adapts film from a novel (except Killer's Kiss (1955), Fear and Desire (1953) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
● Symmetric image composition.
● Extreme close-ups of intensely emotional faces
● All of Kubrick's films feature a pivotal scene that takes place in a bathroom.
● Credits are always a slide show. He never used rolling credits except for the opening of The Shining (1980).
● In almost every movie he made, there is a tracking shot of a character (the camera following the character).
● All of his films end with "The End"
● Very strong visual style with heavy emphasis on symbolism

Lo**ta
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZ-aIJj6-g

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutX5AGEYZc

2001: A Space Odyssey
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2UWOeBcsJI

A Clockwork Orange
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7MIT52TvE

The Shining
watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S014oGZiSdI
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