The Man Who Would Be King News

New Delhi, Dec 1 The first ever Pravasi Film Festival 2010, starting Jan 3-6, will honour veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey with the lifetime achievement award for his contribution to cinema.

PROFILE MICHAEL Caine has a phrase that he used as a mantra with his children: "Use the difficulty". It neatly encapsulates his attitude to a life in which he spent the first 30 years overcoming war, his lowly station in life and a poor family; three anchors that continually conspired to drag the archetypal Cockney geezer back into the south London ...

There is no finer British film actor than Michael Caine. In a career stretching over five decades he has become as reliable as the rising sun.

Sir Michael Caine is a veteran of more than 100 films spanning more than 50 years, but his latest outing, in the grimy, hard-hitting "urban western" Harry Brown is one of his most personal projects yet.

Contrary to the title of the movie that won Hilary Swank an Oscar, boys really do cry.

Sir Sean Connery, 79, burst into stardom in 1962, with his portrayal of British secret agent James Bond in Dr.

John Huston 's "Fat City" has many of the markers of the classic boxing film: the aging fighter who could have been champ; his young, unspoiled counterpart; their gnarled and nostalgic trainer; the women who distract them; and the menacing outsider - in this case a Mexican former champion - who must be faced.

AT the weekend I read Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King , which was later made into a brilliant John Houston film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

The year the film was released was the same year that the outburst of the 1960s sensibility in film had its last glorious stand at the box office - the end of the era where art film, cult film and mainstream movies were on a truly even footing with the studios.

Director, actor, assistant director, second-unit director, master property man. And now add 'author' to the long list of Micky Moore's entertainment-industry endeavors.

The Library of Congress Mount Pony Theater in Culpeper will be closed this weekend in observance of Memorial Day.

"I'm not very good at magic. My hands are all wrong. I've got the hands of the Boston Strangler," laughs the Cockney-doused voice on the other end of my phone.

With Brick , Rian Johnson established himself as a filmmaker to watch. An audacious debut, it set a classic film noir plotline within a contemporary high school setting, and helped establish Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a leading man.

Michael Caine is 76 and still commanding lead roles. Michael Caine Michael Caine has just come from doing a poster of himself with a gun in his forthcoming film Harry Brown, a sort of cockney Gran Torino.

By the time they reach their mid-70s, most movie stars are too preoccupied with the cosmetic maintenance of their famous faces to even consider playing their age.