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  Goofy Guys in Turbans?

  04.09.05 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  David Denby, film critic of The New Yorker magazine, might do well to step out of the movie theater and sit in on a World Religions class. In his review of Gurinder Chadhaís gleeful Bollywood/Hollywood hybrid film Bride and Prejudice, Denby declares: ìin the street bazaars, cross-dressers and goofy guys with turbans break into dance.î†
  GOOFY [...]

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  Noxious Reed

  03.28.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Rex Reed writes film reviews for the NY Observer. He wrote a short review for Park Chan-Wook’s Old Boy. Damn thing is SERIOUSLY offensive to me. I am half-korean [on my dad's side]. All Pakistanis are. It is one of those nationalist pipe-dreams. Legend goes that under Ayub’s dictatorship, we were so advanced that the [...]

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  The Best in 2004

  01.08.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Slate is having the yearly movie club that I enjoy tremendously. Everyone’s top ten is coming out in anticipation of award season. I didn’t get to the movies much this past year. Netflix was a heavenly savior. The best movie I saw was made in 2003 and won’t be released in America until later [...]

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  2046 II

  11.29.04 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  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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  Being Real at the Movies

  10.13.04 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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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  Seething Buddhas

  09.20.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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

  09.13.04 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  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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  Coraline

  09.10.04 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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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  Are we shooting people or what?

  08.16.04 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 asked [...]

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  Up in Smoke

  08.09.04 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  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 [...]