Great scenes
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A plot borrowed from Kramer Vs. Kramer. A poster borrowed from Sleepless in Seattle. Music borrowed from, among other things, Deep Purple’s Child in Time, George Michael’s Last Christmas and Bruccia La Terra from The Godfather. Incidentally, one of the movie’s subplots involves a talented, original music director (who “composed” all of the aforementioned songs)
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Okay, I like romantic movies. I even cry at some of them. So sue me. Good. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can talk about this movie. For people who have watched it, all I have to do to specify my favourite scene is mention a single line: You had me
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One staple in James Bond movies, and something most Bond aficionados look forward to, is the scene with Q. Bond’s seeming inability to bring back the equipment unharmed is a source of perpetual annoyance, but you could see how the men have an effective working relationship. In fact, in License to Kill, he helps out
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Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of an art teacher’s stint at Wellesley College. The establishment (as well as most of the student body) believes that it trains women to be the wives of lawyers, businessmen and senators. She believes that it should train them to be lawyers, businesswomen and senators themselves. Considering that the
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I quite like Sony Pix. And it’s not just because they seem to show some obscure but beautiful movies like David Mamet’s The House of Games. It’s mostly the trailers that do it for me. In all the other movie channels, you see the commercial trailers, 70% of them starting off with the same voice
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Ram Gopal Varma has always been a smart, articulate chap when it comes to interviews, and his assessment of Sholay ranks among his best soundbytes. See, for me, primarily Sholay never worked on a story level. The story’s basic line is of a man taking revenge on another man who killed his family and cut
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This might sound strange, but the most memorable moment for me, from Kill Bill Vol. 1, is the opening credits. It’s basically how it’s set up, you see. It starts with Bill (whom you don’t see) wiping blood off The Bride’s face and telling her that this is more painful for him that it is
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I have a fondness for movies that seem to go nowhere, but do it interestingly. When I settled down to watch Jon Kasdan’s In the Land of Women, I was looking forward to an experience like that. Instead, I was subjected to a string-pulling exercise that worked in fits and starts but never really got
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I seem to have this thing for chick-flicks. I’m not entirely sure why. Before you jump the gun, no, I don’t mean stuff like The Princess Diaries. I mean stuff like The Upside of Anger. It tells the story of Terry Wolfmeyer, a middle-aged housewife who finds that her husband has just disappeared, ostensibly with
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This is likely to be one of those posts that very few people read. Why? Because even Ekalavya can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of people I know who have heard of this beautiful, sad, quirky movie about a hired assassin who sees himself as a samurai and lives by their
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