Rent Celluloid Man (2012)
3.9 of 5 from 56 ratings
2h 30min
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- Synopsis:
'Celluloid Man' is a tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, a man whose childhood fascination with cinema finally led to the creation of the National Film Archive of India. In a country where film preservation was once regarded as irrelevant, Nair's has been a long, hard fight to preserve precious fragments of India's film heritage that would otherwise be lost forever. Thought of as India's answer to France's late, great 'man of cinema', Henri Langlois, Nair has also influenced generations of Indian filmmakers by introducing them to new worlds through the prism of classics of world cinema. Featuring wonderful clips and interviews with many Indian and international filmmakers, this award-winning documentary is both a portrait of a man's passion with film and a love letter to cinema itself. - Actors:
- P.K. Nair, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Krzysztof Zanussi, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Directors:
- Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Studio:
- Second Run
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Countries:
- India
