This film is regarded as a masterpiece of French New Wave. You definitely have to see it to understand why. Its a totally new experience tryin to watch this film, if u r a movie buff..
Most films move with a plot, every scene has its reason....its as if Godard was rebelling against this issue in this movie...The plot is a simple one...If u watch movies..you must have seen tons of films on this plot....But throughout the movie, the plot doesn't just progress...it shows a piece of life...If we think deeply, not everything in life happens for a reason...most events around us dnt help in any way with the progress of life...if films are a mirror of life, then y shouldnt it be the same thr?
The starting itself is a masterpiece. It will take you some time to understand wots goin on just as a third person would have to if he/she tries to peep into somebody else's life...The camera too moves in such a fashion...
If you respect originality...definitely watch this movie...
Overall 9/10
Direction 9/10
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Well, Tiffany's is a jewelery store in new York and the actors do not keep on eating breakfast at Tiffany's throughout the movie. Infact, apart from the opening scene showing Holly(Audrey Hepburn) bunching a bun outside Tiffany's there is not eating anywhere....
So why is the movie so named? Holly is a famous socialite in New York. She describes herself as a wild thing..but the truth is she wants to run away from the cage of life....she has no idea where she belongs...much like the nameless cat that she keeps as pet. Her life is hollow, but she does not know how to fill it....Though she drapes herself in fashionable clothes and maintains a charming smile..she is sad at heart..despite being surrounded by men all the time, she knows she belongs to nobody....she knows all of them are 'rats'..perhaps the reason for her keeping a cat...
she likes Tiffany's and the glitter of diamonds..because thats what she is..she glitters like diamonds...but at the interior she is no more than a blunt trite glass...she is a 'real phony'...
The hollow life has been cast in an utterly lovable Romantic comedy..U will fall in love with Audrey..(I already have ...[:P])..and Peppard's innocent smile will enchant..I deem the movie to be a satire..see what you think..
Overall 8/10
So why is the movie so named? Holly is a famous socialite in New York. She describes herself as a wild thing..but the truth is she wants to run away from the cage of life....she has no idea where she belongs...much like the nameless cat that she keeps as pet. Her life is hollow, but she does not know how to fill it....Though she drapes herself in fashionable clothes and maintains a charming smile..she is sad at heart..despite being surrounded by men all the time, she knows she belongs to nobody....she knows all of them are 'rats'..perhaps the reason for her keeping a cat...
she likes Tiffany's and the glitter of diamonds..because thats what she is..she glitters like diamonds...but at the interior she is no more than a blunt trite glass...she is a 'real phony'...
The hollow life has been cast in an utterly lovable Romantic comedy..U will fall in love with Audrey..(I already have ...[:P])..and Peppard's innocent smile will enchant..I deem the movie to be a satire..see what you think..
Overall 8/10
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
How to Steal a million
I watched this movie because of Audrey. If you are not obsessed with her, there are better movies to watch.
However, the larceny method used in this film is ingenuous and this is a pretty watchable film if you want 2 hrs of pure entertainment with good performances. Audrey charms again.. O Toole looks coquettish...other supporting characters fill in well.
Overall 7/10
However, the larceny method used in this film is ingenuous and this is a pretty watchable film if you want 2 hrs of pure entertainment with good performances. Audrey charms again.. O Toole looks coquettish...other supporting characters fill in well.
Overall 7/10
Monday, January 14, 2008
Taare Zameen Par(2007) (Hindi)
This movie had all the ingredients of being a classic, yet it is not. Immature direction, sloppy editing and bit of concern towards the commercial success in Indian markets barred it from a classic evergreen status.
The movie is about a kid affected with dyslexia. The kid acts so naturally that sometimes one feels if he actually suffers from it....He had a vivid imagination which his peers could never notice..the failure in acads was much more disparaging to them....The film does bring in a point against the rat race-every parent wants toppers in their house...that there cannot be 100 toppers in the same class is of no concern to them....Winning is not all, and all do not have to win the same game.....
Despite a brilliant first half, the film slacks in the 2nd where it becomes more like a conventional Bollywood film with song and dance....The parents of the kid are happy only after he won the painting competition....this contradicted the point the film was apparently tryin to make!!!!! Maybe I am wrong about its notion, but still I hope many of you will agree that the film does return to a more Bollywoodish note in the 2nd half...
there are plenty of flaws in the movie...a 8 yr old kid walks slowly out of the school, the doors are kept open as if only for him!!!!! he walks out aimlessly, how he returns is left for the audience to guess......and then he tells his bro that he had climbed the walls!!!!!! Nikumbh comes in as a arts teacher and sings and dances on benches(I would accept that in a SRK film, but why spoil this good film)... Nikumbh(Amir Khan) tells a bunch of class 3 guys the story of Einstein's relativity, Picasso's Cubism and what not and the children seem to understand everything....wot a bunch of advanced lads!!!!!To talk about its flaws I would bore you....
After all this I recommend every1 to watch this movie....with fewer songs and a better ending and cohesion in the story this was a sure Oscar winner..The kid's acting is brilliant..And all other characters seem realistic...the mind of a dyslexia kid has been very well captured..the lyrics of the scores are haunting.....its a very impressive debut....watch it and you will understand that Bollywood is slowly coming out of its shell..
Overall 7.5/10
Acting 8/10
The movie is about a kid affected with dyslexia. The kid acts so naturally that sometimes one feels if he actually suffers from it....He had a vivid imagination which his peers could never notice..the failure in acads was much more disparaging to them....The film does bring in a point against the rat race-every parent wants toppers in their house...that there cannot be 100 toppers in the same class is of no concern to them....Winning is not all, and all do not have to win the same game.....
Despite a brilliant first half, the film slacks in the 2nd where it becomes more like a conventional Bollywood film with song and dance....The parents of the kid are happy only after he won the painting competition....this contradicted the point the film was apparently tryin to make!!!!! Maybe I am wrong about its notion, but still I hope many of you will agree that the film does return to a more Bollywoodish note in the 2nd half...
there are plenty of flaws in the movie...a 8 yr old kid walks slowly out of the school, the doors are kept open as if only for him!!!!! he walks out aimlessly, how he returns is left for the audience to guess......and then he tells his bro that he had climbed the walls!!!!!! Nikumbh comes in as a arts teacher and sings and dances on benches(I would accept that in a SRK film, but why spoil this good film)... Nikumbh(Amir Khan) tells a bunch of class 3 guys the story of Einstein's relativity, Picasso's Cubism and what not and the children seem to understand everything....wot a bunch of advanced lads!!!!!To talk about its flaws I would bore you....
After all this I recommend every1 to watch this movie....with fewer songs and a better ending and cohesion in the story this was a sure Oscar winner..The kid's acting is brilliant..And all other characters seem realistic...the mind of a dyslexia kid has been very well captured..the lyrics of the scores are haunting.....its a very impressive debut....watch it and you will understand that Bollywood is slowly coming out of its shell..
Overall 7.5/10
Acting 8/10
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Roman Holiday
This movie needs no introduction...It is one of the sweetest movies on celluloid. Its a painting of the colors of life in black and white...
The movie describes the escapades of a youthful spirit embellished in heavy royal drapery. Everything in her life is based on a "schedule"..Nevertheless, her pubescent heart want to break free, to enjoy the life..the movie then moves on a romantic, fairy tale of a news correspondent's tryst with "Her Highness"....In some senses it is the Cindrella's story reversed..... Just as Cindrella had to return back before her shoes gave out, Anne too had to return to the prison of royalty..He sense of duty to her country prevented her from enjoin herself..
Arent we all like that.. We do things that we are supposed to do, but we may not like it....A life in schedule is life confinement within sky high Bastille walls....and to remain within this system and perform our duties we need some escapades, free from the worries of daily life..
Are you still reading my review? what a sucker!!!! go and catch this movie if you havent already....if you have, watch again if you havent thought about all these..
Overall 8/10
Acting 8.5/10
The movie describes the escapades of a youthful spirit embellished in heavy royal drapery. Everything in her life is based on a "schedule"..Nevertheless, her pubescent heart want to break free, to enjoy the life..the movie then moves on a romantic, fairy tale of a news correspondent's tryst with "Her Highness"....In some senses it is the Cindrella's story reversed..... Just as Cindrella had to return back before her shoes gave out, Anne too had to return to the prison of royalty..He sense of duty to her country prevented her from enjoin herself..
Arent we all like that.. We do things that we are supposed to do, but we may not like it....A life in schedule is life confinement within sky high Bastille walls....and to remain within this system and perform our duties we need some escapades, free from the worries of daily life..
Are you still reading my review? what a sucker!!!! go and catch this movie if you havent already....if you have, watch again if you havent thought about all these..
Overall 8/10
Acting 8.5/10
Sunday, January 6, 2008
The President's last bang (Korean)
This is not the best of contemporary Korean cinema...Yet this is a courageous and audacious black comedy...
A political satire, it is based on the political coup of 1979 in Korea, this film follows an imaginary chaos in a cynical way...The characters are well cut out, they are flawless....the film may have improved a bit in storytelling, yet its worth watching...
Overall 7/10
Camera 7.5/10
NB: The first scene has topless girls. Dont mistake this film to be of a different kind...it was intended probably as a shock treatment to the ways of autocratic rulers..(there are no more obscene scenes)
A political satire, it is based on the political coup of 1979 in Korea, this film follows an imaginary chaos in a cynical way...The characters are well cut out, they are flawless....the film may have improved a bit in storytelling, yet its worth watching...
Overall 7/10
Camera 7.5/10
NB: The first scene has topless girls. Dont mistake this film to be of a different kind...it was intended probably as a shock treatment to the ways of autocratic rulers..(there are no more obscene scenes)
The Red Shoes
It is poetry set on celluloid. The movie is slow, its about a ballet and the people involved in it, showing both what is on and off stage....
Does this put you off? It may...But if you have some time to 'waste' do watch this movie....often there are situations in life where one has to choose between his/her ambitions and his/her emotions...the protagonist of the movie faces exactly the same situation....
The music score throughout the film is superb. It will surely grasp you unless you are a ROCK.
Its a wonderful 'feel-good' movie...
Overall 8/10
Direction 8/10
Music 9/10
Does this put you off? It may...But if you have some time to 'waste' do watch this movie....often there are situations in life where one has to choose between his/her ambitions and his/her emotions...the protagonist of the movie faces exactly the same situation....
The music score throughout the film is superb. It will surely grasp you unless you are a ROCK.
Its a wonderful 'feel-good' movie...
Overall 8/10
Direction 8/10
Music 9/10
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Full Metal Jacket(1987)
The dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive...U may be deep in shit...but yes you are alive....This is one of the best anti war films I have ever seen....
The film gives the total metamorphosis of a normal human being to a US marine-a live weapon...its his hard heart that kills... those who are a little full on the merrier side cannot stand even the inhuman training and the Marine turns to kill his own men....
A war tears apart all the drapery on human emotion, lays it naked and later brutally rapes it... A soldier on field transforms into an insane robot...yet the cause for which he has sacrificed himself may not be worth it....
Euthanasia may be banned on paper..but what do you do when a little girl, badly wounded is rotting and writhing in pain? leave her and wait for a mercy of god to save her or shoot her so that she has a painless death...
Coppola's "Apocalypse now" was also on the background of Vietnam war..but this one bares the fiendish constitution of a war...
Overall 8/10
Direction 8.5/10
The film gives the total metamorphosis of a normal human being to a US marine-a live weapon...its his hard heart that kills... those who are a little full on the merrier side cannot stand even the inhuman training and the Marine turns to kill his own men....
A war tears apart all the drapery on human emotion, lays it naked and later brutally rapes it... A soldier on field transforms into an insane robot...yet the cause for which he has sacrificed himself may not be worth it....
Euthanasia may be banned on paper..but what do you do when a little girl, badly wounded is rotting and writhing in pain? leave her and wait for a mercy of god to save her or shoot her so that she has a painless death...
Coppola's "Apocalypse now" was also on the background of Vietnam war..but this one bares the fiendish constitution of a war...
Overall 8/10
Direction 8.5/10
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