HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMSWEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2023

Films Schedule

11:00 am    Singin’ in the Rain (USA)
(103 min; 1952; colour & b/w; English)
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

With Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Multiple award winner including Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Comedy or Musical, Golden Globe Awards, US 1953; NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1952; National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989; WGA Award (Screen) for Best Written American Musical, Writers Guild of America, USA 1953; among others

1:30 pm    Roman Holiday (USA)
(118 min; 1953; b/w; English)
Director: William Wyler

With Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

Multiple award winner including Oscar Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role & Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, Academy Awards, USA 1954; BAFTA Film Awards for Best British Actress, BAFTA Awards 1954; NYFCC Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1953; among others

8:30 pm    Johnny Guitar (USA)
(110 min; 1954; English)
Director: Nicholas Ray

With Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 2008

HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS

Films Schedule

11:00 am    The Postman Always Rings Twice (USA)
(113 min; 1947; b/w; English)
Director: Tay Garnett

With Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

1:30 pm      The Red Shoes (UK)
(135 min; 1948; English)
Directors: Michael Powell, Marius Pressburger

With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer

Recipient of the Oscar Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour & Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Academy Awards, USA 1949; NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1948; and Golden Globe for Best Original Score, Golden Globes, USA 1949

4:00 pm    Red River (USA)
(133 min; 1948; b/w; English)
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson

With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990; and OFTA Film Hall of Fame for Motion Picture, Online Film & Television Association 2012

8:30 pm    High Noon (USA)
(85 min; 1952; English)
Director: Fred Zinnemann

With Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell

Multiple award winner including the Oscar Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role & Best Film Editing, Academy Awards, USA 1953; Bodil for Best American Film, Bodil Awards 1953; CEC Award for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 1954; among others

HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS

Films Schedule

11:00 am    Double Indemnity (USA)
(107 min; 1944; b/w; English)
Director: Billy Wilder

With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1992; and OFTA Film Hall of Fame Award, Online Film & Television Association 2007

1:30 pm    Mildred Pierce (USA)
(111 min; 1945; b/w; English)
Director: Michael Curtiz

With Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Academy Awards, USA 1946; NBR Award for Best Actress, National Board of Review, USA 1945; and National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1996

4:00 pm    Notorious (USA)
(102 min; 1946; b/w; English)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Raus

Recipient of the Bambi Award for Best Actress-International, Bambi Awards 1952; OFTA Film Hall of Fame, Online Film & Television Association 2009; and National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board 2006

8:30 pm    Brief Encounter (UK)
(86 min; 1945; b/w; English)
Director: David Lean

With Noël Coward, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

Recipient of the Grand Prize of the Festival (Feature Film), Cannes Film Festival 1946; NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1946; and NYFCC Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1946
 

HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS

Films Schedule

1:30 pm    Citizen Kane (USA)
(119 min; 1941; b/w; English)
Director: Orson Welles

With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Multiple award winner including Oscar Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Awards, USA 1942; NYFCC Award for Best Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1041; National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989; among others

4:00 pm    To Be or Not To Be (USA)
(99 min; 1942; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

With Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1996; and Special Award, Sant Jordi Awards 1971

8:30 pm    Casablanca (USA)
(102 min; 1942; b/w; English)
Director: Michael Curtiz

With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Multiple award winner including Oscar Awards for Best Picture, Best Director & Best Writing, Screenplay, Academy Awards, USA 1944; National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989; NBR Awards for Top Ten Films & Best Director, National Board of Film Review, USA 1943; among others
 

HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS

Films Schedule

11:00 am    The Iron Horse (USA)
(150 min; 1924; silent; b/w; English inter-titles)
Director: John Ford

With George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 2011

2.30 pm    Ninotchka (USA)
(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990; and NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1939

8:30 pm    Modern Times (USA)
(87 min; 1936; silent; b/w)
Director: Charles Chaplin

With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1936; Jussi Award 1974 for Best Foreign Filmmaker; National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989

HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS
Curated by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-winning filmmaker, archivist and Director, Film Heritage Foundation

Films Schedule

 The General (USA)
(78 min; 1926; silent with inter-titles; b/w)
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton

With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavendar

Winner of OFTA Film Hall of Fame, Online Film & Television Association 2009; and National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1989
 

Jammu & Kashmir: The Wounded Paradise 
by Jawaharlal Kaul 
  

Speakers: Justice Permod Kohli, Former Chief Justice, Sikkim High Court; Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, President, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts; Prof Sushma Yadav, Pro Vice Chancellor, Central University Haryana & Former Member of UGC ; Shri Jawaharlal Kaul, Author of the Book

Chair: Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (I/C) for S & T; Minister of State for PMO; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, GoI
 

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta
 
The Maldives Regime Change: Advantage China – Implications for India

Panelists: Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, former CnC Western Naval Command; Ms Jyoti Malhotra, senior journalist, Foreign Affairs, The Print; and Dr. Gulbin Sultana, Associate Fellow, MP-Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
 
Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta