A whole bunch of stuff going on in the world of movies. Some we’ve missed;\nsome yet to come:<\/p>\n\n
Continuous Journey is an inquiry into the largely ignored history\nof Canada’s exclusion of the South Asians by a little known immigration\npolicy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908. Unlike the Chinese and\nthe Japanese, people from British India were excluded by a regulation that appeared\nfair, but in reality, was an effective way of keeping people from India out of\nCanada until 1948. As a direct result, only a half-mile from Canadian shores,\nthe Komagata Maru was surrounded by immigration boats and the passengers were\nheld in communicado virtual prisoners on the ship. Thus began a dramatic\nstand-off which would escalate over the course of two months, becoming one of\nthe most infamous incidents in Canadian history. [Continuous Journey] <\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n- “Morning Raga<\/a>” — In\ntheir own words:\n
Morning Raga is about the meeting of worlds. It is a story that brings\nthe modern and traditional together, unites the past with present, Carnatic music\nwith Western music, the comic with the tragic, fate and coincidence with individual\nchoices. It is a story of our times where our worlds are interacting with each\nother. [Morning Raga] <\/blockquote>\nEven tougher to figure out is where it’s playing. As far as we can tell,\nit’s slowly popping\nup in theaters<\/a> around the country.<\/li>\n- “Bomb the System<\/a>” — The\ntitle screams, “movie about the digestive\nconsequences of a bad batch of pani puri.” The official web site says, “first\nfeature in over 20 years to delve into the world of graffiti art.” Let’s\nhope they read this, and find some way to combine the two. The film (Exec: Kanwal\nRekhi, Prods: Ben Rekhi, Smriti Mundhra) opens in L.A. and N.Y. on April 22.\n(thanks, Abhijay Prakash<\/a><\/em>)<\/li>\n
- Kal\nPenn<\/a> — Yahoo! Movies hosts production stills from the actor’s new\nflick, “A Lot Like Love.” Gawker, a Manhattan gossip blog, published\nthis Penn-sighting\nfrom one of their readers<\/a>:\n
on the afternoon of sunday\nthe 3rd, i saw kal penn (from the new superman sequel, the lead role in the movie\nadaptation of jhumpa lahiri’s\nbestselling book “the namesake” and the role of kumar in “harold\nand kumar go to white castle”) at whole foods in Columbus circle. he was\nwearing a knit wool cap, a black fleece patagonia jacket and a vest over the\nfleece. was it really that cold? he noticed me squinting at him, so i asked him, “what’s\nyour name?” he replied, “kal.” i then asked him, “were\nyou in a movie?” he said, “yes.” then, i asked him if the movie\nhad been “harold and kumar go to white castle.” he replied in the\naffirmative and asked me if i had seen it. i replied honestly that i had not.\nHe seemed to be annoyed and bewildered at the same time by my answer. i guess\nhis annoyance was compunded by the fact that i am asian and the movie i asked\nabout was supposed to be the movie that proved asians could produce a mainstream\nhit. well, it bombed at the box office. at least he has now gotten those two\nnice roles that i just mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph. [Gawker] <\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whole bunch of stuff going on in the world of movies. Some we’ve missed; some yet to come: Amitabh Bachchan — Film Society of Lincoln Center pays tribute to the actor by screening 12 of his films (estimated total … Continue reading