HOLLYWOOD BONANZA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR –  FESTIVAL OF FILMS

Films Schedule

11:00 am    Rebel Without a Cause (USA)
(111 min; 1955; English)
Director: Nicholas Ray

With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Recipient of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990; OFTA Film Hall of Fame for Best Film, Online Film & Television Association 2019

1:30 pm    Written on the Wind (USA)
(99 min; 1956; English)
Director: Douglas Sirk

With Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Academy Awards, USA 1957; and Golden Laurel Awards for Top Male Supporting Performance & Top Femal Supporting Performance, Laurel Awards 1957

3:30 pm    Some Like it Hot (USA)
(121 min; 1959; b/w; English)
Director: Billy Wilder

With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Multiple award winner including BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor, BAFT Awards 1960; Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture-Comedy, Best Actress – Comedy or Musical & Best Actor-Comedy or Musical, Golden Globes, USA 1960; WGA Award (Screen) for Best Written American Comedy, Writers Guild of America, USA 196l; among others
 

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
 

Carnatic Vocal Recital 

By N. Vijay Siva from Chennai

Accompanists: Sanjay Swaminathan (vocal support); Sandeep Ramachandran (violin); and N. Manoj Siva (mridangam)

Chief Guest: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Speaker: Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian Religions, University of Texas at Austin

Chair: Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University

In 1958 the French anthropologist Louis Dumont published a small but seminal paper entitled “World Renunciation in Indian Religions.” It has been called “probably the most imaginative and insightful attempt to grasp Indian religions as a whole in the history of Indology.” Dumont himself says that this early paper “provides the main framework for all my later work, both on India itself and beyond that setting.” The talk takes issue with Dumont’s main contention, especially his opposition of the world renouncer to the man living in society, based on new understanding of the early history of the householder or grihastha.

(Collaboration: Ashoka University)

Speaker: Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India

Discussants: Prof. Ambuj Sagar, Founding Head, School of Public Policy, Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, IIT Delhi; and Shri Rajesh Gopinathan, former CEO and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd.

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC