Deepa Mehta Articles

Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s The Man Beyond the Bridge (top); Shahrukh Khan, Kajol My Name Is Khan (bottom) Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s The Man Beyond the Bridge (above), with dialogue in the native tongue of Konkani (Goa region), a language little used in Indian cinema, took top honors at the 2010 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature The [...]

Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order, including future release dates) Adoration (above) – Atom Egoyan (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures, May 2009) Before Tomorrow – Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu (Alliance Films, February 2009) Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) – Benoit Pilon (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures) C'est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) – Philippe [...]

The New York Film Critics Online went all out for The Queen, chosen as the best film of 2006, in addition to citations for best director Stephen Frears, best actress Helen Mirren, best screenplay for Peter Morgan, and best supporting actor Michael Sheen (who actually has a leading role in the film, but that's how those things go). Curiously, neither one of Clint Eastwood's war [...]

The biggest surprise found in the list of winners of the 2006 National Board of Review awards was the choice of Clint Eastwood's View from the Other Side, the Japanese-language World War II drama Letters from Iwo Jima, as the best film of the year. This marked only the third time that the NBR's best film award has gone to a non-English-language production. The last [...]