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I spend a lot of time listening to movie music. The reason for this can be condensed to two words: Marathahalli Bridge. This is a little stretch in Bangalore on my way to work where I’ve spent a significant fraction of my adult life staring at the butt of the car before me. My only…
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Roger Ebert’s essay on Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru – it’s so well written, so passionate in its description of the movie, that it ranks among my favourite pieces of writing in general. A lot of what Ebert has written about the movies is brilliant, but his essay on Ikiru is, I think, his best work to…
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Pithamagan has one flaw: Laila is too loud to be credible. There, I’ve got that out of the way. Otherwise, this is pretty much a perfect movie. Heavy, hard-hitting, and comprising some incredible performances. So good that using anything less than superlatives to describe the performances of Vikram and Surya would be an insult. The…
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Nanda was Surya’s breakout movie, the one that transformed him from a generic romantic hero to an actor of substance. A number of movies that came afterwards cemented that position – Kaakka Kaakka (the best cop drama in Tamil cinema bar none, in my opinion), Perazhagan (his most astounding performance to date), Pithamagan (stole nearly…
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In an earlier post, I had spoken of my admiration of Bharathiraja, and how he wrote the rule book for village films with 16 Vayathinilae. That movie, more than any others I have seen that came before it, brought that milieu to life. Somehow, earlier movies never really got their hands dirty while making a…
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The Filmfare awards have long been the barometer of public opinion on the year’s Hindi movies. Public opinion, mind you, not necessarily quality. A knockout performance in a little known movie stands no chance against SRK in the latest tearjerker about some rich guy named Rahul and his love life, as far as the Filmfare…
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Okay, here’s my problem with Sanjay Gadhvi, the man behind the two Dhoom movies. He’s got a nice visual style, a reasonably talented cast and a knack for making women look gorgeous, but he’s forgotten a very basic ingredient. He’s making movies about a cop on the trail of some great thieves. But not once…
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This seems to be a bad time for me to consider watching a Hindi movie. Consider the last few movies I’ve watched: 1. Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna: I was on a bus from Hyderabad to Bangalore and they played it during the journey. I’ve never really considered jumping off a moving bus before, but I…
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Sam’s Myth: TOP FIVE: 2006 Movie Posters Not my pick, since this isn’t a category I follow. But this is a good list, from what I can see.
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The soul of Pulp Fiction lies in its dialogue – profane, literate, whimsical and incredibly well-delivered. In fact, the dialogue is so important to the movie, its characters are a lot more interested in what they’re saying than who they’re shooting (or being shot at by, for that matter). This is an extremely interesting choice,…
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