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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Excuse to bond, restoring revered but ravaged film classics
he Princess of Cannes (that’s what the press calls Aishwarya Rai Bachchan there) has caught the attention of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Martin Scorsese big time at the French Riviera. A source at the film festival said that Scorsese has been constantly showering attention on the beautiful Mrs Bachchan, and with reason. He, apparently, wants to cast her in his next film. The source added, “The two have had discussions before, the meeting in Cannes gave them just the excuse to bond over films, India and Bollywood.”
Scorsese, whose World Cinema Foundation is busy restoring revered but ravaged film classics, showed his latest work — the Italian classic II Gattapardo directed by Lucino Viscomti, at Cannes to a select audience including Ash. And after the screening, he invited her for a very exclusive dinner where there were just eight guests. The American filmmaker and Bollywood diva were in earnest and continuous discussion throughout. Scorsese is now working on restoring Uday Shankar’s classic dance-ballet film Kalpana. And is said to have discussed his plans with Ash. Coming Sunday at a Cannes dinner in honour of Scorsese, Ash is a special invitee. The Cannes source reported, “Scorsese has admired Aishwarya’s work from the time he saw her in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas . He has expressed a keen desire to cast her in his next film, an offer that she is inclined to accept.”
Please explain to me the highlighed parts.
Though I know "restore" means "to bring back something", "revered" means "a famous one", "ravaged " means "damaged" and "film classics" means "old films", I'm not able to understand them together.
Source : http://movies.indiatimes.com/news-gossip/news/Aishwarya-in-Scorseses-net-/articleshow/5948269.cms
Scorsese, whose World Cinema Foundation is busy restoring revered but ravaged film classics, showed his latest work — the Italian classic II Gattapardo directed by Lucino Viscomti, at Cannes to a select audience including Ash. And after the screening, he invited her for a very exclusive dinner where there were just eight guests. The American filmmaker and Bollywood diva were in earnest and continuous discussion throughout. Scorsese is now working on restoring Uday Shankar’s classic dance-ballet film Kalpana. And is said to have discussed his plans with Ash. Coming Sunday at a Cannes dinner in honour of Scorsese, Ash is a special invitee. The Cannes source reported, “Scorsese has admired Aishwarya’s work from the time he saw her in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas . He has expressed a keen desire to cast her in his next film, an offer that she is inclined to accept.”
Please explain to me the highlighed parts.
Though I know "restore" means "to bring back something", "revered" means "a famous one", "ravaged " means "damaged" and "film classics" means "old films", I'm not able to understand them together.
Source : http://movies.indiatimes.com/news-gossip/news/Aishwarya-in-Scorseses-net-/articleshow/5948269.cms
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"excuse to bond" = convenient reason to form a relationship with each other. You have all the pieces for the second question. e.
- "excuse to bond" = convenient reason to form a relationship with each other.
- You have all the pieces for the second question.
- e.
- the actual celluloid is disintegrating, probably because of the effects of time and storage conditions.
- This Foundation is repairing ("restoring") them.
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"excuse to bond" = convenient reason to form a relationship with each other.
You have all the pieces for the second question. These highly regarded and important old films("revered film classics") are in a damaged state ("ravaged") -- i.e. the actual celluloid is disintegrating, probably because of the effects of time and storage conditions. This Foundation is repairing ("restoring") the
You have all the pieces for the second question. These highly regarded and important old films("revered film classics") are in a damaged state ("ravaged") -- i.e. the actual celluloid is disintegrating, probably because of the effects of time and storage conditions. This Foundation is repairing ("restoring") the
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