Articles By david chute

Bollywood Comes to Hollywood for Sixth Annual IFFLA

Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 1:14 pm

Putting the "festive" back into film festival

Bollywood Bohème

Wed, Nov 7, 2007, 6:20 pm

Indian cinema’s past meets its present in the lavish Saawariya

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Wed, Apr 11, 2007, 7:20 pm

India’s commercial Bollywood movie industry is the only foreign cinema that still has a flourishing…

Bloody Royals

Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 6:00 pm

Eklavya unites the best of Bollywood past and present

Too Many Flowers, Not Enough Power

Wed, Dec 20, 2006, 12:00 pm

The Curse of Zhang Yimou’s gilded 10th-century epic

Ram Gopal Varma and Company: Indian Goodfellas

Wed, Aug 16, 2006, 6:00 pm

For the American Cinematheque, which has found a large audience for “Asian extreme” action and…

Soapy Water

Wed, Apr 26, 2006, 6:00 pm

Deepa Mehta’s irresistible melodrama

4th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 12:00 pm

 

Lon Chaney — Tod Browning: The Unholy Two

Wed, Feb 15, 2006, 6:00 pm

Between them, Lon Chaney and Tod Browning made nearly 300 movies, almost all of them…

Japanese Outlaw Masters

Thu, Sep 8, 2005, 12:00 am

One of the best things about the American Cinematheque’s Japanese Outlaw Masters series is…

Diamonds in the Rough

Thu, Jul 28, 2005, 12:00 am

Excavating the treasures of UCLA’s festival of international preservation

Old Dudes Kicking Ass

Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 12:00 am

A who’s who of Kung Fu Hustle

Not-So-Hidden Master

Thu, Mar 24, 2005, 12:00 am

Stephen Chow steps out of the shadows

Dangerous Games

Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00 am

Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly

Elbows of Fury

Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 12:00 am

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior and its soon-to-be-legendary star

This Gun for Hire

Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 12:00 am

UCLA presents Graham Greene at the movies

'I Live in Jiang Hu'

Thu, Dec 2, 2004, 12:00 am

Director Zhang Yimou — back in the action

Love and Death

Thu, Dec 2, 2004, 12:00 am

Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers

Pixar Apotheosis

Thu, Nov 4, 2004, 12:00 am

The Incredibles lives up to its title

Cow-headed Freaks

Thu, Aug 12, 2004, 12:00 am

The 'yakuza horror theater' of Takashi Miike’s Gozu

In With the Out Crowd

Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 12:00 am

Residents get down in Where’s the Party Yaar?

Gunman’s Walk

Thu, Jul 10, 2003, 12:00 am

Western noir and the road back from Bataan

Energy Alternatives

Thu, Mar 27, 2003, 12:00 am

Johnnie To looks west — and to the mainland

Planet Bollywood?

Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 12:00 am

Indian musicals are hip, sure, but the Hollywoodization of Bombay cinema may not be as imminent — or as desirable — as advertised

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