Based on a kind of true incident, it is a buddy film about a quadriplegic white millionaire and a rather uncouth black caretaker. The Intouchables is a fascinating piece of celluloid narrative, which this writer saw in 2011. Admittedly, the Indian story has been shot in Paris, Lyon, Belgrade and Hyderabad, and so one supposes a French flavour will be discernible in Thozha/Oopiri. Read: We’ve kept the soul of the French original intact in Thozha, says Vamshi The Tamil/Telugu remake of The Intouchables, Thozha/Oopiri stars Nagarguna and Karthi in the lead roles.Īnd on March 25, we will see Oliver Nakache’s and Eric Toledano’s The Intouchables transforming from the French language into Tamil and Telugu, Thozha/Oopiri, helmed by Vamshi.
Two weeks ago, Nalan Kumarasamy’s Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum was remade from the Korean picture, My Dear Desperado.
Kamal Hassan’s Thoongavanam was recreated from the French Sleepless Night. SIFF Film Center: A.K.In recent months, we have seen a string of such Tamil versions of inspiring foreign works. Landmark Seven Gables: City of Gold (Laura Gabbert) Fri-Thurs Seattle Art Museum: Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947) Thurs Only Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) Weds Only In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967) Tues Only Young Cassidy (Jack Cardiff & John Ford, 1965) Sun OnlyĢ or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Mon Only Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) Sat Only Scarecrow Video Screening Room: Sci-Fi Commons Secret Movie Fri Only Love is Blind (Jason Paul Laxamana) Fri-Thurs Regal Parkway Plaza: Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders, 1991) Thurs Only Director’s CutĪMC Pacific Place: The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review Sex & Broadcasting (Tim K Smith, 2014) Weds Onlyįestival of (In)Appropriation (Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner & Greg Cohen) Weds Only I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965) Fri-Mon Only Northwest Film Forum: Songs My Brother Taught Me (Chloe Zhao) Fri-Sun Only Regal Meridian: Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs Thozha (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Tamil Landmark Guild 45th Theatre: Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-ThursĬinemark Lincoln Square: Oopiri (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Telugu UFO Night with Intergalactic Space Busk & Teenagers from Outer Space(Ian Volpi, Tom Graeff, 2016 & 1959) Mon Only Video The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Onlyīirthright with Darktown Revue (Oscar Micheaux, 1939 & 1931) Sun Only Scott ) Fri, Mon-Thurs Only Our ReviewĬity of Women (Federico Fellini, 1981) Fri-Thurs Grand Illusion Cinema: Requiem for the American Dream (Peter D. Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre) Weds Only Free Screening The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review Grand Cinema: Embrace of the Serpent(Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs Raiders of the Lost Ark (Stephen Spielberg, 1981) Sun & Weds Only Spirits Homecoming (Cho Jung-rae) Fri-Thurs Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) Fri-TuesĬentury Federal Way: Ambarsariya (Mandeep Kumar) Fri-Thurs Playing This Week:Ĭentral Cinema: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Fri-Tues Japanese film scholar Donald Richie wrote that all his life, whenever Kurosawa was asked to pick his favorite from among his own films, he’d always say “the next one.” After 1985, he’d answer, “ R an“. In conjunction, the SIFF Film Center is playing the great film essayist Chris Marker’s documentary about the making of Ran and Kurosawa himself, A.
We discussed it in the second part of our They Shot Pictures podcast series on Akira Kurosawa back in 2013. A bleak vision of a chaotic universe, colored by brilliant production design, a mournful score by Toru Takemitsu and as much influence from classical Noh drama as Elizabethan theatre, it remains one of the most powerful and original of all Shakespeare films. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as the aged king who unwisely splits his realm among his sons, disinheriting the truly loyal one. With the First Folio’s arrival at the Seattle Public Library and the upcoming episode of The Frances Farmer Show on Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and Matías Piñeiro’s The Princess of France, SIFF this week is presenting the latest restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s final masterpiece, his 1985 King Lear adaptation Ran. Shakespeare is in the air this spring on Seattle Screens.