New York nightlife brand Provocateur has announced its festive events for the next two months. Among the headline acts are DJ Axwell, famed for his sets with Swedish House Mafia, and Laidback Luke, who will perform on November 26.
Tickets cost Dh300. Hosting Provocateur’s anniversary party on December 18 will be DJ Dixon, vice president of FC Magnet Mitte and owner of Innervisions Recordings. Entry is free.
To ring in Christmas Day and the New Year, three of Provocateur’s best-known resident DJs will play back-to-back. The identities of the trio are being kept under wraps. Entry is free.
All events run from 11pm until 3am. Provocateur Dubai is at the Four Seasons Resort, Jumeirah Beach Road.
For reservations, call 055 211 8222 or visit www.provocateurdubai.com. – The National staff
Actor Saeed Jaffrey dies at Age 86
Veteran Indian-born British actor Saeed Jaffrey died on Sunday.
He was 86, according to his niece Shaheen Aggarwal, who shared the news on her Facebook page.
"Today, a generation of Jaffreys has passed away. Saeed Jaffrey has joined his brothers and sister and is rejoining in the lap of his Heavenly Father, externally," she wrote.
Jaffrey is renowned for roles in movies such as Gandhi (1982), Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), Henna (1991), Masoom (1983) and Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985).
He was married to actress and travel writer Mehrunima (Madhur Jaffrey), but they parted in 1965. Together they had three daughters Meera, Zia and Sakina, who is also an actress. – IANS
007 rules box office for second week
James Bond still has a licence to thrill cinema audiences, after 007's latest adventure, Spectre, topped the North American box office for the second weekend in a row.
Its main competition came from the animated The Peanuts Movie, also on its second weekend, with the lacklustre crop of new releases – including the based-on-fact Chilean mine-rescue drama The 33 and the faith-based football film My All American – failing to pose much of a challenge.
Not even two of the biggest movie stars in the world could keep another new release, By the Sea, afloat. The European art-house influenced study of marital dysfunction, features real-life couple Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt – who were just in the UAE while the latter filmed War Machine – as a bickering twosome.
But the pleasures of voyeurism extend only so far and the film grossed a measly US$95,440 (Dh350,550) in a limited release at 10 sites. Spectre added $35.4 million to its takings to bring its domestic total to $130.7m. This was a 49 per cent drop from its opening. – Reuters
Kolkata Film Fest remembers Jean Renoir
When French filmmaking legend Jean Renoir first visited India 66 years ago, little did he know that his influence on the late Satyajit Ray would result in the birth of modern Indian cinema.
Now, the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival, is commemorating Renoir’s ties to the nation with a photography exhibition.
The photos and newspaper clippings document his time making The River – a movie that won the International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.
Ray attended several of Renoir's film shoots, drawn by his style of independent filmmaking, which led to the production of Pather Panchali in 1955.
The exhibition, inaugurated by veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, also paid homage to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni.
"Kolkata has not forgotten the masters who influenced filmmakers from Bengal," said KIFF director Yadab Mandal. "The exhibition is a tribute to their legacy." – IANS
