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New York City's Indian Film Festival: MIAAC

Priyanka Boghani | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Indian-Film-Director, India, Films, Bollywood, Miaac, Film, Women Directors, Actors, Mira Nair, World News
Priyanka Boghani

MIAAC started with an independent Asian American filmmaker focus, but now has broadened to the Indian film industry as well as artists from the wider Indian diaspora.

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Parsis in Paris: Little Zizou in the Land of Zidane

Mira Kamdar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: France, Paris, Zinedine Zidane, Sooni Taraporevala, Soccer, Mumbai, Little Zizou, Zizou, Mira Nair, Parsis, Entertainment News
Mira Kamdar

The film gets its name from the movie's protagonist, a motherless little boy who escapes both his self-absorbed and overbearing father by playing a computer soccer game featuring Zidane.

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Actor Hilary Swank Becomes a High Flying Aviator in Amelia

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Kansas, Aviatrix, Aviator, Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Pioneer, Mira Nair, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Between the big smile, mouth full of teeth and unique vocal cadence, Swank fashioned such an uncanny facsimile of Earhart that Amelia is garnering awards talk even while still flying into theaters.

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Stars Take Flight at Amelia Premiere

Jon Chattman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paris, Ewan McGregor, Premiere, Screenwriter, Hilary Swank, Harry Connick Jr, Richard Gere, Amelia, Movie Premiere, Mira Nair, Earheart, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

the latest role for Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank is portraying aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in the aptly titled Amelia.

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ReThink Review: Amelia -- Yup, It's a Biopic

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Aviation, Richard Gere, Gay, Feminism, Mira Nair, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I hardly knew anything about Earhart before seeing Amelia -- and I didn't feel like I knew much more when I left.

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Review: Amelia

Zorianna Kit | Posted 12.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Hilary Swank, Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Zorianna Kit, Entertainment News
Zorianna Kit

Watching Amelia, a biopic of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, is like spending two hours reading a Wikipedia entry on the title character.

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HuffPost Review: Amelia crashes

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Gore Vidal, Richard Gere, Amelia Movie Review, Mira Nair, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's as if, once Hilary Swank got her hair cut and lightened and had the faux freckles applied, well, that was the whole character.

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Amelia

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cherry Jones, Richard Gere, Christopher Eggleston, Hilary Swank, Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

In the new movie directed by Mira Nair starring Hilary Swank, Earhart is the ideal and idealized woman of her time, a role model for young aviatrixes and women everywhere.

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HuffPost Review: New York, I Love You

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paris I Love You, Natalie Portman, Omnibus Film, Alexander Payne, Brett Ratner, New York I Love You Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Isabel Coixet, The Coen Brothers, Mira Nair, Alfonso Cuaron, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

What to make of omnibus/anthology films such as New York, I Love You? Do you judge them by the best of the short films contained within? Or by the wo...

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Hilary Swank In 'Amelia': The Trailer (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Video, Richard Gere, Film, Amelia-Earhart, Hilary Swank, Mira Nair, Amelia, Entertainment News

Here's a first look at the trailer for 'Amelia,' the Fox Searchlight movie based on the life of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 while trying t...

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Film in India Shines an Unflattering Spotlight on the Children

Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slumdog Millionaire Actors, India, Reliance Entertainment, Film, Anil Ambani, Mira Nair, Entertainment News
Shana Ting Lipton

Both Firaaq and Sikandar address how the children of India fare (or don't fare) in the midst of political and cultural conflicts at large, and in the microcosm of the home.

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Unlike Dubai, Doha Puts Education First, Stresses Collaboration (VIDEO)

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Abu Dhabi, Education City, Northwestern University, Education, Doha, Qatar, Seymour Hersh, Mira Nair, Michigan State University, Dubai, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

What if there were a small city whose entire purpose for existing was to promote education for an entire country?

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Strike Delays Two More Movies

Variety | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Rob Marshall, Sophia Loren Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Mira Nair, Shantaram, Entertainment News

The writers strike claimed two more casualties Monday. Warner Bros. called off a February production start on "Shantaram," the Mira Nair-directed ada...

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