The film was the first ever Punjabi-language to feature in a competitve section of the festival.
Studio Film Group (Sfg International) has secured all Canadian rights from Elle Driver for The Fourth Direction (Chauthi Koot), which received its world premiere in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
It is the first Punjabi-language film to ever screen in competition at Cannes.
Based on two short stories by Waryam Singh Sandhu, the film uses mostly non-professional actors for its Punjab-set tale, which takes place in 1984 during India’s tumultuous groundswell for a Sikh separatist state.
Director Singh is made his Cannes premiere with this follow-up to his debut, Alms For A Blind Horse, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
For The Fourth Direction, Singh reunites with his Alms director of photography Satya Nagpaul. The pair were honoured on that film with awards for best direction and best cinematography at India’s National...
Studio Film Group (Sfg International) has secured all Canadian rights from Elle Driver for The Fourth Direction (Chauthi Koot), which received its world premiere in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
It is the first Punjabi-language film to ever screen in competition at Cannes.
Based on two short stories by Waryam Singh Sandhu, the film uses mostly non-professional actors for its Punjab-set tale, which takes place in 1984 during India’s tumultuous groundswell for a Sikh separatist state.
Director Singh is made his Cannes premiere with this follow-up to his debut, Alms For A Blind Horse, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
For The Fourth Direction, Singh reunites with his Alms director of photography Satya Nagpaul. The pair were honoured on that film with awards for best direction and best cinematography at India’s National...
- 5/25/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Canada’s Studio Film Group (Sfg) International will co-produce Abhijeet Singh Parmar’s debut feature Overcoat, which will be made under the recently signed India-Canada co-production treaty.
Indian producers Jogavindra S. Khera and Rishebh Batnagar of Telling Tales Entertainment are also on board the project, based on Russian writer Nicolai Gogol’s short story The Overcoat.
“Overcoat is a uniquely satirical genre project exploring the human condition, and Abhijeet has an amazing vision for this adaptation that I think will resonate with genre fans throughout the world,” said Sfg International president Nadia Sandhu.
Set in Varanasi in the 1990s, the story follows a solitary office clerk who digs into his savings to buy a new coat. But when it is stolen, the traumatised man dies only to return as a ghost that seeks peace by solving the mystery of his stolen overcoat.
The project was selected for Nfdc’s National Script Lab in 2013 and this year’s...
Indian producers Jogavindra S. Khera and Rishebh Batnagar of Telling Tales Entertainment are also on board the project, based on Russian writer Nicolai Gogol’s short story The Overcoat.
“Overcoat is a uniquely satirical genre project exploring the human condition, and Abhijeet has an amazing vision for this adaptation that I think will resonate with genre fans throughout the world,” said Sfg International president Nadia Sandhu.
Set in Varanasi in the 1990s, the story follows a solitary office clerk who digs into his savings to buy a new coat. But when it is stolen, the traumatised man dies only to return as a ghost that seeks peace by solving the mystery of his stolen overcoat.
The project was selected for Nfdc’s National Script Lab in 2013 and this year’s...
- 11/24/2014
- by uditaj@gmail.com (Udita Jhunjhunwala)
- ScreenDaily
Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
Written by: Alberto Lattuada, Giorgio Proseri, Giordano Corsi
Cast: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Biulio Stival, Ettore Mattia, Giulio Cali
I must admit, my knowledge of Italian cinema is limited to the works of Dario Argento and Mario Bava and the grindhouse classics of the '70s. So when Il Cappotto (The Overcoat) showed up for me to review, I was a bit hesitant about trying to critique a restored classic. But, according to the DVD cover, the film is a ghost story, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Well, the jacket wasn't exactly telling the truth. A ghost does show up, but not until the final 10 minutes of the film. And using phrases like "retribution" and "wreaks havoc" in the plot summary implies much more than the movie delivers. The film is quite good, with stunning cinematography and solid performances, but it is not...
Written by: Alberto Lattuada, Giorgio Proseri, Giordano Corsi
Cast: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Biulio Stival, Ettore Mattia, Giulio Cali
I must admit, my knowledge of Italian cinema is limited to the works of Dario Argento and Mario Bava and the grindhouse classics of the '70s. So when Il Cappotto (The Overcoat) showed up for me to review, I was a bit hesitant about trying to critique a restored classic. But, according to the DVD cover, the film is a ghost story, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Well, the jacket wasn't exactly telling the truth. A ghost does show up, but not until the final 10 minutes of the film. And using phrases like "retribution" and "wreaks havoc" in the plot summary implies much more than the movie delivers. The film is quite good, with stunning cinematography and solid performances, but it is not...
- 3/9/2012
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Hellion
Today's the day Sundance 2012 opens and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir pretty well sums up why those who've written the festival off completely might want to reconsider:
If Robert Redford's annual celebration of independent film is no longer the cutting-edge cultural phenomenon it appeared to be in the 1990s, it also isn't the wretched-excess Sundance of the early 2000s, when the overly precious downtown of Park City, Utah, was bedecked with 'gifting lounges' that attracted all kinds of entertainment and sports celebrities who had no plausible connection to the independent-film business. Current festival director John Cooper took the reins from longtime director Geoff Gilmore (a charismatic and polarizing figure) two and a half years ago, just as the national economy was going south. Whether by coincidence, strategy or an inevitable consequence of structural change, Cooper's first two festivals have felt leaner and more focused on actual films and filmmakers — and...
Today's the day Sundance 2012 opens and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir pretty well sums up why those who've written the festival off completely might want to reconsider:
If Robert Redford's annual celebration of independent film is no longer the cutting-edge cultural phenomenon it appeared to be in the 1990s, it also isn't the wretched-excess Sundance of the early 2000s, when the overly precious downtown of Park City, Utah, was bedecked with 'gifting lounges' that attracted all kinds of entertainment and sports celebrities who had no plausible connection to the independent-film business. Current festival director John Cooper took the reins from longtime director Geoff Gilmore (a charismatic and polarizing figure) two and a half years ago, just as the national economy was going south. Whether by coincidence, strategy or an inevitable consequence of structural change, Cooper's first two festivals have felt leaner and more focused on actual films and filmmakers — and...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
The Overcoat is a film adaptation of a well-known short story by Nikolai Gogol, only it lifts the dark, tragicomedy tone that seems so quintessential to Russian stories and transports it to contemporary Italy. Of course, by contemporary, I mean 1952, as that was when Alberto Lattuada directed the film. Now being released as another installment in RaroVideo’s series of digitally restored Italian classics, The Overcoat benefits from being wholly devoted to the bleak, stereotypically Russian nature of the story, and including enough of Gogol’s brand of sharp, satirical humor to keep the viewer from being completely blindsided by our protagonist’s agony.
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- 1/18/2012
- by Lee Jutton
- JustPressPlay.net
"Although most film festivals are consecrated to glamorous premieres and the newsworthy new, [To Save and Project: The Ninth Moma International Festival of Film Preservation, opening tomorrow and running through November 19,] treasures the rediscovered and dusted-off," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "Like browsing a used bookstore in an unfamiliar city — another endangered pleasure — parsing Tsap's lineup, you're never sure what will turn up. This year's attractions range from a restored color version of Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon (the Star Wars of 1902) and the first Soviet stereo-vision feature, Robinzon Kruso (1947), to new prints of Roger Corman's anti-segregationist screen-scorcher The Intruder (the most alarming B-movie of 1962), Louis Malle's 1969 doc Calcutta (showing with Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad's lyrical portrait of a leper colony, The House Is Black), Alberto Lattuada's 1952 neorealist adaptation of Gogol's The Overcoat, and Elaine May's 1976 black comedy Mikey and Nicky (the best movie John Cassavetes never made), as well as the preserved work of the late downtown performance artist Stuart Sherman.
- 10/13/2011
- MUBI
From Scott Pilgrim vs the World to Back to the Future, the critics have had their say – now it's your turn
It's that time of year again – the season of mulled wine, mince pies and the critic's best-of list. Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and the Observer's Philip French have already weighed in, and on Tuesday, guardian.co.uk/film asked you for your highlights of the cinematic year.
No surprise over the film that attracted most comment, positive and negative – Inception, the Christopher Nolan sci-fi blockbuster with Leonardo DiCaprio. While calling it "the obvious choice", @orangew listed its virtues: "A technical marvel; a non-sequel, original property; some brain-stretching concepts (even if you're a naysayer, you have to concede it at least tried); and a critical and commercial success – a rare diamond indeed, and from a British director too." In agreement was @tobyjenn, asserting it had "technical nous above and beyond its challengers,...
It's that time of year again – the season of mulled wine, mince pies and the critic's best-of list. Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and the Observer's Philip French have already weighed in, and on Tuesday, guardian.co.uk/film asked you for your highlights of the cinematic year.
No surprise over the film that attracted most comment, positive and negative – Inception, the Christopher Nolan sci-fi blockbuster with Leonardo DiCaprio. While calling it "the obvious choice", @orangew listed its virtues: "A technical marvel; a non-sequel, original property; some brain-stretching concepts (even if you're a naysayer, you have to concede it at least tried); and a critical and commercial success – a rare diamond indeed, and from a British director too." In agreement was @tobyjenn, asserting it had "technical nous above and beyond its challengers,...
- 12/24/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome to Nevsky Prospect! With a script by playwright and Kpcc journalist Kitty Felde, an original score and songs by indie musician Ego Plum, and Rogue Artists Ensemble's signature mix of live actors, puppetry, masks and digital projection, three of Nikolai Gogol's most famous short stories - Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat and The Nose - will come to "Hyper-theatrical " life this fall. Directed by Sean T. Cawelti, Gogol Project will open at the Bootleg Theater on September 25. Two low-priced previews take place September 19 and 20.
- 8/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Gogol Project - Two workshop performances of Rogue Artists Ensemble's newest theatrical adventure pave the way for a full production in the fall. Audiences will be treated to an early, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the collaborative process involved in bringing three of Nikolai Gogol's most famous short stories - Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat and The Nose - to Hyper-theatrical life using the Rogues' signature mix of live actors, puppetry, masks and digital projection.
- 4/7/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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