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MUMBAI:
Next month English movie channel Pix will celebrate the quality
of courage. It will also air foreign films.
Eevery
Monday on its Perfect 10 it will pay homage to human
courage that makes certain people stand apart from the crowd!
Jane Fonda and James Cann star in Comes a Horseman,
who play hardened ranchers with easy-going outward appearances,
but strong emotions fine tuned through a rugged life of hard
work or watch the intersecting lives of the occupants of an
old apartment block in City of Hope as commercial city
developers try to evict them and they do their best to survive
- both within and outside of legality.
Barabbas
offers an epic account of the thief Barabbas, played by Anthony
Quinn, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ
in his place. The film takes viewers through his many ordeals
as he confronts his inner demons.
Scorpio
is a game of hide-and-seek between two assassins. The Winslow
Boy is the tale of a father who risks fortune, health,
domestic peace and a daughter's prospects to pursue justice
for his falsely accused son.
Pix
also pays a tribute to world cinema, every Sunday in October
at 8 pm. La Cage aux Folles airs on 7 October. It makes
an effort to address the underlying theme of gay relationships
and the courage required to live life on one's terms.
Khartoum
airs on 21 October. It is based on historical events is replete
with battle sequences.
The
channel will also air comedies on the Great at 8 block
starting with Baby Sitters Club on 22 October. It is
about seven 13 year old friends whose babysitting business
leads to one adventure after another. This is followed by
The Bikini Shop, on 23 October. it tells the story of two
fresh graduates who are trying to make a go of the failing
Bikini shop they have inherited from an aunt.
On
24 October Peter Sellers saves the world and all life as a
mad US General tries to trigger a nuclear war in Dr. Strangelove.
Pix
programming head Gitanjali Murari says, "October is a
celebration of the triumph of the human spirit; the films
celebrate the lives of some very extraordinary people - extraordinary
because they damn well did not buckle under pressure but went
on to change their destinies".
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