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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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I am currently in Seoul, S.Korea, working here on a long term assignment. Been here for close to 3 months, and must say, am enjoying the stay out here, though had some really weird experiences too. Now coming to movie watching, as far as Indian movies are concerned , the only way is by DVD,…
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Warning: Here be spoilers! If you haven’t seen any of the earlier versions of this movie (Manichithirathazhu, Aptamithra, Chandramukhi), you would be well-advised to avoid reading this post. If you’re looking for a quick evaluation, here it is: Go watch the movie, it’s quite good. Sometimes I feel like walking up to Akshay Kumar, grabbing…
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Warning: Here be spoilers A long time ago, a director named Vasanth, best known until then for romances like Keladi Kanmani, made a thriller called Aasai. It starred Prakash Raj (in a stunning breakout role) as a psychotic man who kills his wife so he could marry her sister. There was, of course, a conventional…
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Eighty-odd movies to choose from, including Oscar winners, multi-starrers and the like. And what do I pick? A nice little little French rom-com called Hors de prix. That it stars Audrey Tautou might make things easier to understand. This, however, is no Amelie. Tautou stars as a high-class hooker Irene (I’ve seen the term adventuress…
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I’m back from Shanghai. Might do a couple of travelogue posts on it as well, but for now, it’s back to the main course: movies. By far the best thing about flying Singapore Airlines was the selection of movies on board. I ended up watching four movies, and none of them disappointed. My next few…
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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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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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