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Banno has a lovely article on the relationship between a filmmaker and his subject here: getting up close | Upperstall Blogs My favourite line from the article, just to get you off your lazy ass and click on that link: When he chooses to film a bar singer, he also chooses to film his own…
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I watched Quiz Show on TV eons ago and thought it was a wonderful film. But over the years, my memory of it faded to the point where I could only remember one scene with clarity. Recently, when it came on TV again, I stuck around to watch that scene and then zapped on to…
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No, I haven’t seen it. And no, I don’t have a burning desire to see it either. What I was wondering about was this. The reviews (1, 2) of Kambakkht Ishq on rediff mention that the movie involves a bickering couple — a stuntman and a doctor. So does it borrow, by any chance, a…
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There is nothing extraordinarily memorable about the movie, but if I’m stuck between watching Citizen Kane and Love Actually, I am likely to choose the latter as often as not. To quote what is probably the best line in Some Like It Hot, nobody’s perfect. I very often don’t watch this movie in one go…
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When we watch movies about people finding a way to live a normal life in the midst of an adverse socio-political environment, we marvel at their resilience and their will to live. But if any of these characters had a way to interact with their audience, would they turn to us and ask, “What would…
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As a die-hard Federer fan, I was both happy and sad to see Nadal lose in the fourth round of the French Open. Like Federer himself says, he doesn’t have a problem on clay, just a Nadal problem on clay. And now that the problem lost to Robin Soderling, the path was finally cleared of…
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I just watched bits and pieces of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi last night and it occurred to me suddenly that it was essentially a gender-swapped version of Satyam Shivam Sundaram, with SRK in the Zeenat Aman role and dancing instead of boinking. Does anyone else agree, or is it just me? It’s genetic, I…
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I remember watching Pasumpon years ago on TV and thinking, there’s no earthly reason why this movie should work. The son (Prabhu) of a zamindar is estranged from his mother (Radhika) for two decades because she remarried after her husband died. He grows into adulthood and still carries around that resentment, although by now it…
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Nearly everybody hates those telemarketing guys. There’s really no fun in taking their trip. It seems unfair, somehow. But then, when someone comes along and does it so well, you realize that there are two kinds of people in the world who hate those telemarketing guys: Those who don’t have much to say that is…
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Right at the end of Pineapple Express — which follows Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle into the annals of the Improbably Good Stoner Movies — the three heroes have breakfast at a diner and unwind. I am no homophobe, but I believe that the only plausible human reaction to their conversation would be to…
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