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Wedged quietly in between all those high-profile romantic comedies that established Meg Ryan as a star is this little treasure of a movie. I watched it a long time ago, liked it and then forgot all about it. This, of course, was back when I still thought that “You have two minutes to defuse this
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For most Americans, especially Spielberg fans, Gandhi is simply the movie that beat E.T. to win the Oscar for Best Picture. For many of us in India, this is one of the best-known movies about the man and one we grew up with. Pretty much every year, on October 2 and/or January 30, Doordarshan used
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He is an aristocrat from the previous century who landed up in present day NY. She is an ad executive who lives inn the apartment above where he stays. (In the present, that is. I doubt they had ad execs back then.) He’s doing his best to cope with the future, and she is doing
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Not the (relatively) new one starring Venkatesh and Karisma Kapoor. I’m referring to the old one with Raj Kapoor, Motilal and Nutan. For the most part, this is just a standard simpleton-in-the-big-bad-city movie, the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. What makes it memorable, however, is a courtroom scene right at the end. Raj (Kapoor) has
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Pri’s latest blog post speaks of someone reaching her site after googling “when old tulsi will come back“. Quite naturally, this begs the question: why would someone want to know that? Pri’s rant on the topic: can you believe such people exist? i mean clearly this person has access to the internet. the wonderful genius
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Honestly, I didn’t like this movie much. It was a calculated sort of script that knew exactly what buttons it was pushing. Not a problem per se — even a lot of good movies do that. But the good ones also manage to convey something genuine in the midst of all that machinery. This one,
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He’s a bank robber, she’s a US Marshal he and his buddy hold hostage when they’re busting out of prison, and they spend some time on the way discussing Faye Dunaway movies. It’s a cramped sort of space for a Meet Cute, but it works amazingly well. It’s not surprising to find this sort of
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Take the Money and Run, one of Woody Allen’s earliest directorial ventures, is a strange sort of movie. It plays brilliantly in your imagination when you hear someone tell you about it. It seems like a minor classic. But when you actually sit down and watch it, the laughs don’t come as easily. My guess
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Watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance is probably the single most enchanting thing I have ever seen in a movie. It is not just their grace and precision (Astaire was known to be a perfectionist and rehearsed indefatigably). It’s the sheer joy of their performance. They seem so happy dancing that it lights up
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I read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park before I got to see the movie. The book was dark and very interesting – it had a lot to say about chaos theory and man trying to control something he doesn’t understand and so on. The technical portions, especially relating to chaos theory, were fascinating. However, when Steven
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