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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