Two films with complete different subjects will be screened to indulge your passion for cinema this week. Go watch, is what we recommend

Cinema has always been a medium of passion. While for some it is a medium to be engrossed in, for yet others it is a medium to escape, to forget everyday drudgery and enter the realm of dreams where the filth and dirt of everyday life remains far away, keeping you safely cocooned in a bubble of your own thoughts.



So in order to indulge you in your love for films, this week will see the screening of two films, both unique in their own way, that promise to transport you to a whole new world altogether. The films are all about compassion and also social critique. The movies are part of film club screening and a part of Mindscape festival.
Love and life
One of the films that are to be showcased as part of the ongoing festival is Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic. Directed by Robert Flaherty, this movie talks of one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit), and his family.

It describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group that has been barely touched by technology and still maintains most of its primitive ways. In 1989, this was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Music and more
If this is not enough reason for you, sample this. Australian alternative rock band Regurgitator parodied Nanook of the North in the 1995 video clip for their song Blubber Boy. Hold on, because there is more. Frank Zappa dreamed he was Nanook in his 1974 song Don't Eat The Yellow Snow. Get it?

Reality and redemption
The other movie that will be screened is The Ice Storm (1997), directed by who else but the maverick filmmaker Ang Lee. The setting is suburban Connecticut. The year -- 1973. This is the story of middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drinks, etc and gradually figuring out how their lives are going totally out of control. And on top of everything is a massive late-November ice storm that blankets New Canaan in Connecticut.

The film talks about how the twou00a0 families deal with political and social changes of the early 1970s. Made on a budget of $18 million, the film grossed a mere $8 million when it opened in the United States. It subsequently become a success after the video release in 1998.
So take your pick and get going, we say.

What: Film Club Screening, Mindscape
When: June 15 and 17
Where: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
Timings: 7 pm
Contact: 43663333