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From vampire noir to Bin Laden, Point Break to Detroit, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director has never pulled her punches Watching new Jeff Nichols release The Bikeriders , starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy as 60s Chicago greasers, I was reminded of two other movies: László Benedek’s 1953 Marlon Brando vehicle The Wild One , explicitly cited as an inspiration, and The Loveless , the 1981 feature debut of Kathryn Bigelow , the American film-maker (b.1951) who would go on to become the first woman to win a best director Oscar with her 2008 war drama The Hurt Locker . A symphony of leather-clad posing (with just a touch of Kenneth Anger ), The Loveless was a staple of the late-night circuit in the 80s, often on a double bill with David Lynch’s Eraserhead . Sharing directing credits with Monty Montgomery, Bigelow playfully deconstructed masculinity and machismo in a manner that was one part wry to two parts relish. I remember seeing The Loveless at the Phoenix in East

Gadar 2: Ruckus at cinema hall in Patna, 2 low intensity bombs thrown outside the single screen theatre, no casualties

A single screen cinema hall in Patna, Bihar, which is currently screening the recent blockbuster Gadar 2, saw some untoward incidents today. There were reports about ruckus taking place inside the premises of the cinema hall and this was followed by the throwing of two low intensity bombs outside the cinema hall by miscreants, out of which one burst. The two suspects, who allegedly created ruckus and threw the bombs, have been arrested and there have been no casualties.

The theatre in question is Regent Cinema. The owner of the cinema hall Suman Sinha confirmed the incident and told Bollywood Hungama exclusively and claimed that problems were created by a couple of people who wanted to black market the tickets of Gadar 2.

He said, “This keeps happening. People with wrong intentions do come in. They were wanting that we allow them to black market movie tickets, which we can’t. We want every ticket to be given to the public. They tried to bully my staff. The staff of cinema hall is never weak. They have the morale guts to obstruct wrongdoers. Nothing serious has happened. They tried to. But they were all caught by the police and taken to task.”

Confirming the blast of two low intensity bombs, Sinha added, “They blasted it away from our cinema hall. They were the same people. They were trying to push our staff. They wanted us to allow them to go wrong (tasks). We never allow (black marketing) and we are never a party to all this. They ran away after the police came. Before running away, they threw the (bombs).”

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