Madrid's Fashion Week, the Pasarela Cibeles, announced last week it was banning models with a Body Mass Index, or height to weight ratio, below 18. A 5-foot-9 (175-centimeter) model weighing 125 pounds (57 kilograms) would have a BMI of 18. I agree, and hopefully the same rules will be applied to those that do not [...]
EPK
Today my edit room was taken over by people interviewing Shekhar for the Electronic Press Kit (EPK), so Jill could keep editing upstairs is her suite. An EPK is a delivery requirement of the distributer of the film and is sent out to the press. They are normally a half an hour long making of [...]
Pope Bennedict’s comments on Islam
I do not believe that Pope Bennedict's comments on Islam were a mistake that he has to apologise for .. I think his remarks were deliberate, and with full understanding of the implications of those remarks in the Muslim world. It was not am impromptu speach. He was reading from a text, and I am [...]
i said
i said i could look after myself and i lied i said i did not need you and i lied i said i could do wihtout your love and i lied i said i was happy and i lied i said i did not need any anyone and i lied the truth was and is [...]
the post production diary
I am Billy, the 1st assistant Editor on ‘The Golden Age,’ and I will be keeping a diary throughout the post production of the film. Our Editor is the amazing Jill Bilcock, some of her past credits include Moulin Rouge, The Libertine, Road to Perdition, Romeo + Juliet and of course the 1st Elizabeth. We [...]
Is this where my father resided ?
As I lit my father's funeral pyre and watched the flames consume his body, the priest handed me a long bamboo pole. To puncture the skull. To release his spirit, he said, but also the skull has a tendency to explode.. And then the unthinkable happened. The wood fell away and I watched as the [...]
Shooting ratio’s,
Kedar asked me what my shooting ratio is generally; Masoom, my first film was shot 3:1.... Mr India, which was a visual effects film was naturally bigger, But when I did Bandit Queen, I was asked to shoot a minimum of 10:1 Elizabeth was probably about 10:1 Four Feathers must have gone up to 20:1 [...]
Post Production !!
So here I am, back in London to come to terms with what I've done. Meantime Jill Bilcock has done an assembly (which means she has strung everything together in sme sort of linear way in order for the film to make sense ... ... the people at Working title (the producers) have seen the [...]
London
Back in London now, to do the post on Golden Age, and found it just tooooo depressing to leave India.. For Mumbai kept me far far more alive than London could ever do. When u are constantly confronted with mortality and contradictions, you are forced to live life on the edge. What better way to [...]
who is the I ?
From: Piet Hut, 29th julu 2001, in response the following question from me : "The past is imagined - but somewhat real - yes ? It happened - but ofcourse now exists in thought only - although physical ramifications of past actions are real - yes ? therefore from that point of view there is [...]