Last night we watched the Cannes version of 2046. DMan, as always, was the one who made the viewing possible. I have mentioned earlier how insanely psyched I am to see this movie. 2046 essentially takes place over the course of two and a half years in the late 60s. It does travel back in [...]
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The election, the class, and my job application occupy me all day looong. sigh. December cannot come soon enough. This past weekend, after quite a while, we went to the movies. Saw I ♥ Huckabee on Saturday and on Sunday, after a day of pumpkin farm goodness in gorgeous weather, saw Sky Captain and the [...]
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You might remember that old case of Nike shoes that spelled Allah on the back? Then there was the more recent Danish chapal that also had Allah. I don’t read Danish but that says the company apologizes for inadvertently offending Muslims. Then there was the Roberto Cavalli bikini that had various Hindu deities on it. [...]
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Hero(2002) is playing everywhere and making some good money. I am happy. It was one of the movies that I was really, really looking forward to. Gerry would read monkeypeaches on a biweekly basis, keeping us abreast of this coolness being directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung (anyone who knows [...]
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Some happy news on the movie front. I am a huge fan of Neil Gaiman – author of Sandman graphic novels. He is an amazing storyteller or myth-maker, as I like to call him. His 2002 children’s-book-for-adults, Coraline, is on top of the charts at the sepoy household having gone through innumerable readings. It is [...]
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David O. Russell is one of my favorite directors. I was watching Flirting with Disasters on cable this weekend and laughing my ass off. That guy knows how to film farce. Which made his 1999 film Three Kings that much greater. I remember reading a small interview in NYT before Gulf War II, where they [...]
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Busy today. I saw Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle last night. I was hoping to catch it with my peeps but ended up going late and on a whim. After watching the movie – hilarious – we decided to go get some take-out from Chinatown. We then proceeded to drive in a circle [...]
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Some nights ago, I watched Ararat at the local student theatre. Outside the screening, the Turkish Students Association had put a huge poster saying “This Movie is Not the Historical Truth”. They were also passing out flyers that “disputed” the movie’s claims and sought to “balance” the picture. For those in the dark, the movie [...]
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I haven’t actually watched a Bollywood movie in many moons. While in Pakistan, I discovered the brilliance of Ram Gopal Varma and want to see whatever he does next. However, an ad for Dev, caught my eye and I clicked on it. The story, I gather, revolves around two old police commissioners and politicians sparking [...]
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Why do I persist in thinking that French cinema has something to say? Why? We escaped tonight to a movie and saw Secret Things by savant auteur Jean-Claude Brisseau. I would pitch it as In the Company of Men meets Marquis deSade meets Damien meets a CRACK PIPE. It started out fairly innocuously and for [...]
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If there is god of film-making (dionysus?), he has blessed Wong Kar Wai with powers beyond any human. There is no other director (ok, Kurosawa and Kubrick) whose every single movie is amazing to behold. In the Mood for Love remains the most visually stunning paean to lost love. A movie built around silences and [...]
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Last night we watched House of Sand and Fog, which was quite good but over-the-top melodramatic in the end. Short synopsis: Kathy is on a downward spiral and the county repossesses her house and sells it on a technical mistake. The buyer, Behrani, wants to fix-it-up and resell it a market price. Kathy wants her [...]
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Saw The Company friday night. It was ok. I was hoping for more back-stabbing, anorexia and mis-shappen toes. The music was good and there were some funny moments. Over all, it was good p.r. for the joffret ballet. And for a movie set in Chitown, it showed us scant of this beautiful city. While in [...]
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One of my favorite movies from 2001, Donnie Darko is getting an extended cut in the cinemas. Richard Kelly (writer/director) spilled some beans to the Empire Magazine: It will expand the meaning of the film and offer more clues and more solutions to the puzzle and create an additional layer of mystery for the audience. [...]
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Yesterday, we were supposed to go see Russ Meyer’s magnum opus Faster, PussyCat Kill! Kill! at Doc Films – which is having a banner quarter (kudos to the volunteers-check the calendar here). I come home around 4ish and I am not even tired. Yet, when Eduardo called me at 6 to go, I was fast [...]
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