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indiewire.com - 10/20/2009
cinemadaily | Nair’s “Monsoon Wedding” Comes to Criterion
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Before directing versions of such classic Euro/American narratives as “Vanity Fair” and this week’s “Amelia,”  Mira Nair was known as the director who brought Indian culture to the big screens in America.  From her Oscar nominated “Salaam Bombay!” to her Denzel Washington-starrer ...
dallasnews.com - 10/20/2009
The Home Front: 'Monsoon Wedding' gets Criterion treatment
— dallasnews.com — 12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 By CHRIS VOGNAR / The Dallas Morning News cvognar@dallasnews.com... M onsoon Wedding was my No. 1 film of 2002, but at the time I had trouble explaining why. When asked, as I frequently was, the best I could come ... The Home Front: 'Monsoon Wedding' gets Criterion treatment

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indiewire.com - 10/22/2009
Plain Ride: Mira Nair’s “Amelia”
— indiewire.com — [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic “Amelia” will easily be criticized for... simply being the kind of film that it is. And you’ll know the type from the very opening, when an awestruck pubescent Amelia Earhart stands in a golden wheat field, brushing her ... Plain Ride: Mira Nair’s “Amelia”

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Monsoon Wedding: A Marigold Tapestry
criterion.com - 10/20/2009
Monsoon Wedding: A Marigold Tapestry
— criterion.com —   So many worlds stream in from every direction in Monsoon Wedding that it comes to seem... as if the whole globe is converging on a single family home in New Delhi: relatives from Houston, from Australia, from Dubai (“Muscat, actually”); ... Monsoon Wedding: A Marigold Tapestry

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