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post Jun 17 2008, 10:14 PM
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) : The story is about a Geisha(not a prostitute as the movie suggests) during and aftermath of World War ll.How a fisherman's girl learn the art of Geisha and become one of the most famous Geisha in Japan.

Many people have this view that its historically incorrect.This movie is beautifully made, It has shown the culture of Japan in that era meticulously.The pace of the movie is slow but I like the movie for it music and excellent cinematic scenes.I will rate it as 7.5/10

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post Jun 17 2008, 10:24 PM
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Death At A Funeral (2007) : Its a beautiful movie with loads of witty humor, the best part of the movie is that every character is crafted eloquently.I laughed throughout the movie.We can hardly imagine, How hilarious a funeral can be.

There is a midget who proclaims himself as the lover of the deceased and blackmailed the deceased children for money, instead of paying him they kill him and put him in the same coffin and hence the story takes a turn.You better watch it to find out what happens in the end.I will give 9.5/10

A must watch comedy.

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post Jun 19 2008, 12:43 AM
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Nidhi Ji, I haven't seen The Miracle Worker, but I have this information that Black is copy and paste of The Children Of Lesser God (1986).


I have seen both 'Black' & 'The Miracle Worker'. Black is loosely based on The Miracle Worker, the Oscar-winning 1962 Hollywood movie about the life of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan. The great SL Bhansali has just switched the teacher's role to a male otherwise it just follows Helen Keller's story without acknowledging the fact though.

On the contrary Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there.


Here are some excerpts from this site: http://www.sawf.org/bollywood/reviews/blac...ywood&cn=31

The true story of Annie Sullivan's efforts to draw Helen Keller from her world of darkness and silence has been earlier made into a classic drama and movies. In 1962, William Gibson's drama, The Miracle Worker; In 1962, the movie “Miracle Worker” which won Oscar nomination for director Arthur Penn, and Oscars for Anne Bancroft (who played Anne Sullivan) and Patty Duke (who played Helen Keller); In 2000 “Miracle Worker” was made again with Hallie Kate Eisenberg as the young Helen and Alison Elliot excelling in the role of Annie Sullivan. Now Black in 2005 is yet another inspiration from the great life of Helen Keller (1880-1968).

The miracle worker in Black is Debraj Sahai played by Amitabh Bachchan. The blind and deaf girl, Michelle McNelly, is played by young Ayesha Kapoor, and later by Rani Mukerjee. The movie replicates all scenes of Michelle McNelly’s childhood from the Helen Keller’s story. It transcends after Debraj opens up Michelle’s dark and silent world to knowledge and understanding.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali blemishes it by not publishing the fact that the role of Michelle McNelly is based on the true life of Helen Keller and that Debraj Sahai is an inspiration of Anne Sullivan’s role in Keller’s life. As a matter of fact, it is insulting to the audience by not acknowledging this true story.

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post Jun 28 2008, 09:06 AM
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Before Sunrise (1995) Richard Linklater

Was badgered by Shaibaal into watching this one... smile.gif and am I am grateful he did. Okay if Shaibaal gets around to reading this one, he will stop recommending films to me... no badgering involved...just my exaggeration technique...

A lovely film, it is about two young twenty-somethings, who meet on a Eurorail, he is American and she is French and they start talking and decide to get down together in Vienna and spend the day together, as he has to fly back to the US, the next morning. Just the two of them talking about various things, parents, romances, choices and dreams. Does sound rather heavy-handed when you put it this way, but it is the way the film is handled, that is quite fascinating as it gives you a glimpse into the minds of this generation, not in a smart or a pretentious way, but just simply as they pass the day together. Don't really like American romances particularly about young people, this one is quite different.


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post Jun 28 2008, 09:20 AM
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And the best part...for the lazy ones... you can watch the whole film on youtube... tongue1.gif



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post Jun 29 2008, 08:12 AM
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There is a sequel to 'Before Sunrise'(1995), 'Before Sunset' (2004) with the same lead stars. Some consider this to be even better than the first one. Unfortunately, though i have both the movies, did'nt find the time to view them.

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post Jun 29 2008, 10:33 AM
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QUOTE(Nidhi @ Jun 28 2008, 10:42 PM) *

There is a sequel to 'Before Sunrise'(1995), 'Before Sunset' (2004) with the same lead stars. Some consider this to be even better than the first one. Unfortunately, though i have both the movies, did'nt find the time to view them.


Madhavi, you are right! No more recommendations... laugh.gif

Nidhi, I would actually recommend seeing the two movies back to back. I found both of them to be extremely engaging, the latter reflecting (again very well written, I thought) how one starts having doubts about the future with every passing experience as against the comfortable confidence (is that a legitimate expression?) in the earlier movie when they were much younger. I would not pick one over the other - especially since I can and have them both! smile.gif

That said, it would be interesting to read your take on them. I am not good at writing reviews - or much else for that matter.

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post Jul 24 2008, 02:35 AM
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Any1 been to watch The Dark Knight yet? It opens here this week but its been showing in US 4 a week now... any1?


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QUOTE(shaibaal @ Jun 29 2008, 10:33 AM) *


Nidhi, I would actually recommend seeing the two movies back to back.


Shaibaal..I did just that a couple of months ago. smile.gif
You should really really enjoy the pace of both those films..It is like floating in your favourite swimming pool. What you said is absolutely true...The first if filled with the devil-may-care youth..and the second one is kind of restrospect..looking back on the times gone by and the ruminations.. Just see that you have plenty of food around you so that you need not get up in the middle.. Wonderful recommendations . smile.gif


QUOTE(YaarMere @ Jul 24 2008, 02:35 AM) *

Any1 been to watch The Dark Knight yet? It opens here this week but its been showing in US 4 a week now... any1?


YM..personally i havent seen that one. It has been released in local language out here.. smile.gif
Nephew saw it in US..and says it is an out and out Heath Ledger's flick..

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Everybody is sayin that he pulled of the joker as good as Nicholson did and arguably better... there are even talks of a posthumous oscar 4 the guy.


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????? They do that over there? I thought it was just punks who did stuff like:


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post Jul 24 2008, 07:52 PM
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laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif This really takes the cake.

Actually the Film studios themselves turned distributors in India, and they got this brilliant idea to dub the films and release. Can you imagine Heath ledger..talking in Telugu ? laugh.gif

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Shaibaal..I did just that a couple of months ago. smile.gif
You should really really enjoy the pace of both those films..It is like floating in your favourite swimming pool. What you said is absolutely true...The first if filled with the devil-may-care youth..and the second one is kind of restrospect..looking back on the times gone by and the ruminations.. Just see that you have plenty of food around you so that you need not get up in the middle.. Wonderful recommendations . smile.gif


Hi Simplefable,

Sorry - have been away and just saw your message recently. I saw these two reviews too that I liked - probably because they had nice things to say biggrin.gif but are also insightful.

Glad you liked the movies.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-69...vt=lf&hl=en

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=483...vt=lf&hl=en




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W. 2008

Saw W. Strange film. I am still wondering why Oliver Stone chose to make it. It is about George W. Bush, it opens with Bush in a baseball field with a voice in the background announcing him as the 43rd president of the US and Bush looking for an applause/audience that is not there and ends with him missing a ball he expected to catch, throwing back a look of surprise at the audience.

Apart from this satirical framing of of the narrative, the film is pretty restrained, considering its subject matter and the fact that it is an Oliver Stone film. It is not savagely satirical, nor is it analytical, instead choosing to play out Bush's early life and his eventual road to the Presidency in a sort of straight biographical fashion that keeps fairly close to the facts.

In a non-linear fashion, it opens with Bush in the White House inching towards his decision to invade Iraq and is interspersed with his early struggles, namely with alchoholism, his inability to hold on to any job and his troubled relationship with his father(a little too obvious and pat, and a trifle heavy-handed in typical Oliver Stone fashion). It follows his early debacles and his progress towards sobriety, faith, Laura Bush and finally the White House, and tries to link them to his eventual Iraq blunder egged on by Cheyney and Rumsfield, uncomfortably protested by Powell, and impassively allowed by Condoleezza Rice.

Nothing new there, the images that stand out are the strangely smiling, passive/impassive figures of Condy Rice and Laura Bush as they allow Bush to blunder on. I wonder why Stone seems to want to hold them responsible for Bush's blunders. Or for that matter why Bush senior becomes a sort of moral touchstone in his son's world controlled by Cheneys and Roves.

It is a subdued film about a mediocre man who becomes one of the world's most powerful figures. And it is not comfortably distanced by history. It does not deliver the punch through satirising Bush, it does not analyse him either, maybe the blow is aimed at the audience as it holds a mirror to it for choosing such a man to become their president. Alas, Oliver Stone cannot resist donning his prophetic robes, this time in a very controlled fashion though... tongue1.gif but that is also the reason why his films are so fascinating.

Not completely satisfying but fascinating nonetheless...





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Burn After Reading (2009)

Okay the critics sound pretty annoyed with the misanthropic tendencies exhibited in the Coen brothers comedies, and this one seems to have no heart and only cruel laughter. It comes as more of a shocker after the brooding No Country for Old Men. A spy thriller spoof, it has all these props, glittering CIA office, glittering shoes, glittering floors, laconic men, a Russian embassy appropriately manned by thick-set men sporting thick Russian accents and it has all these talented actors playing dunderheads and "bitches" and "SOBs" and clearly having a good time. Cloony is good as the happily married man having an affair on the side and starting another one over the internet, Brad Pitt is good as the pleasant, empty-headed gym instructor who has his ears plugged with music most of the time and Tilta Swinton is good as the cold bitchy wife of Malkowich who is having an affair with Clooney. Fraces McDormand is even better as the not-so-bright gym instructor Linda Litzke, who is worried about getting the insurance to pay for her cosmetic surgery and about getting the right online date. And John Malkovich, as the cold, pissed off, CIA agent, Princeton '73 batch who is demoted from his job because of his drinking problem, is,IMO, the best. It is indded a cruel comedy, with not too much heart. Yet there is Richard Jenkins' yearning for Mc Dormand, there is Mc Dormand's yearning for the right date and the right body, and even a hint of yearning in the little boy lost petulant fit Clooney throws when he finds out about his wife. That might not add up to much heart, but the details, the Coens' strong point, are pretty heartening, the Princeton 73 details, Linda's conversations with the Insurance company, Linda's conversations with the plastic surgeon...The movie is not their best but it makes no sense to miss out on a Coen brothers film.

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Marley and Me 2008

Watched this film with my daughter keeping a close eye on me making sure that I watched and absorbed each scene of this movie that she had watched a couple of times already and wanted to impress me with biggrin.gif Warning to parents whose kids are trying to emotionally blackmail them into getting a pet and who are about to give in: Do your kids a favor and don't see this movie.

One of the most destructive/manic dogs I have seen on screen, and then he melts his owners' hearts with his eyes! Kind of gives an insight into all dog-owners' psyche...reminded me of my angelic-looking lab who used to bite people randomly and adored us... The film is not really mushy, it is down to earth about the couple, their three kids and dog and their life. Anniston and Owen William are pretty believable in the film. The dog thankfully does no rescues and is involved in no mush (except the ones he chews up and err.. .poops out...). One of the better dog movies, and I have seen many rolleyes.gif , it is rather long, but like it or not one does feel mushy-eyed in the end.

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