Movies
Roshan Seth is one of India’s most internationally renowned actors, best known as the prosperous uncle in “My Beautiful Laundrette” and for appearances in such films as “Mississippi Masala” and “London Kills Me.”
March 24, 2000
My Beautiful Laundrette (Channel 28 Saturday at 9 p.m.): Director Stephen Frears has given writer Hanif Kureishi’s coolly audacious script vitality, directness and astonishing reverberations and cast the 1985 film marvelously.
June 17, 1990
Hanif Kureishi has a voluminous imagination.
Aug. 21, 1992
Aug. 29, 1992
The initial scenes in “Mississippi Masala” (selected theaters), set in Uganda in 1972 just before Idi Amin expelled its Asian population, have an ecstatic openness.
Feb. 14, 1992
The titles of “My Beautiful Laundrette” (opening Friday at Cineplex Beverly Center) whirl onscreen like the spin-dry cycle at the corner washeteria, with a whimsical gurgling gulp.
March 13, 1986
Read Sheila Benson’s 1982 review of “Gandhi”
Dec. 8, 1982
F ollowing are The Times’ recommendations for this weekend’s schedule of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival, with commentary by the film reviewing staff.
April 13, 1991
World & Nation
Afghanistan’s presidential election campaign an exercise in peril
Aug. 11, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
When a character’s first on-screen act is as heartless as the one in “Brahmin Bulls,” it will take a lot to redeem him.
Dec. 11, 2014