lol. The strangest title for a movie I've ever come across. And no, it doesnt make any more sense after you watch the movie. The movie is apparently a parody of other 'life in the hood' movies, and the name of the movie is a mashup of the names of those.
was decent fun watching the movie :-)
One wouldnt have too much about John Huston. You would have heard of him for this movie though. Touted as the greatest detective movie ever made, this was quite a good watch and a good change from the hitchock style of movie making. Quite refreshing except that I found the dialouge quite convoluted at times and the story line hard to follow because of it. But its a very well executed movie. An unsual main character, and interestingly put up. Worth watching.
Btw, John Huston has directed movie names you might remember from recent past: Casino Royale (1967) and Moulin Rouge (1952), and has also acted in a tv version of The Hobbit (1977). Still looking forward to catch The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Most war movies would tend to talk about World War II. They'll talk about Hitler's Germany and the likes of what happened then. I'd agree that the second world war was more 'spectacular'.
But there was no World War II in 1930. And this was when the original movie was made, and this is why it can talk about the War effort without any hint of what's coming up.
The explosions and effects and real. Bone chilling real. These were not special effects. And it makes this movie so great to watch just for it being so ahead of its times.
Thats movie making for you. This movie is a great education! Waiting to catch Paths of Glory though..
After seeing too many serious and profound and arbit and deep and technical and well-known movies, with 2046 being the breaking point, I decided to ease my troubled mind with something fun. Gladiatress sounded like one such movie, and it lived up to what i wanted. I was smiling because it was fun and felt a little light in the head. It may not be the best made movie, but it sure was a welcome break. Maybe i'll watch a few more of these :-)
Had to catch this one because I stumbled upon it, and more so because it was Hitchcock's earlier (british land) works. This movie is apparently better than the remake of 1956, but I dont think I'm gonna try to watch that.
I do miss characters of the likes of both Peter Lorre and Bob Lawrence in present day movies; they make movie watching fun :-)
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie. I've always heard how Marlon Brando is considered to be 'the greatest actor of all time', and was quite interested to see him do Tennessee's good old play. Its true, he does take over the screen when he's in the scene. Its kind hard to miss this fella when he's performing. And theres this certain ease about him, that makes it look so natural and makes it look like the role was made with just him in him mind. A good movie to watch for its acting Vivien Leigh and Brando make it worth the watch. A good rendition of the play too I'd say.
1984 (sometimes Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is how the title appears on screen) is a British film based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell; the film was made in the year imagined by the author. Its based of the dystopian novel which we all know well. And it actually is a pretty good rendition of it. Two other books worth reading on similar concepts: Brave New World and Darkness at Noon: Both really really good books! (Thanks Dash for introducing both :-))
The movie of choice to get over 2046. Maybe its me, but i'm getting interpretations in this movie too :-)
An American Werewolf in London is a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. The movie won the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. Although there are several straightforward horror elements to the plot, it is also knowingly funny and ironic, an example of a tongue-in-cheek humour.
Kar Wai Wong's best, was also my breaking point to watching abstract movies :-)
After all these abstract movies, I found this really hard to keep up with :-)
Ah the big movie. I've read the book, and wanted to see how HAL would look. A totally abstract movie, interpretation left to the user :-)
Its an influential 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, deals with themes of human evolution and technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. The film is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering use of special effects, and reliance upon ambiguous yet provocative imagery and sound in place of traditional techniques of narrative cinema.
Btw, do check out Deodato version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra", the soundtrack rendition.
Four Hundred Blows. After Spiderman III, this was a welcome relief to movie making. Of course, no one in their right mind would compare Sam Raimi and François Truffaut.
The story is autobiographical, reflecting many of the events of Truffaut's own life. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris, who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.
I wont be commenting on this movie. But yes, I will tell you that rating on IMDB as of now (7.7) is _not_ worthy of the movie. Allright, the effects are good. They are really good. And maybe its the best of the three Spiederman movies. But i have to tell you I wanted to get out of that theater the minute it started. Its hard to believe such a turn off bad acting can be.
Append: the rating on IMDB has come down to 6.7. Thats more like it. I think it should be lower.
Its a Spielberg movie that people sometimes miss. But a critically well known movie, gave manj and me a lot of good vibrations while watching the movie. An epic tale thats really well done.
"The Color Purple is actually an epistolary novel. The film follows the life of a poor African American girl, Celie (Goldberg), whose abuse begins when she is young.
The film was nominated for 11 oscars (including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey) but saw none of them awarded.
Without a doubt, one of the best movies that I've seen over the last so many months. I've never before been smiling at how deftly and beautifully the movie reflects life and its crazy truths. An absurd concept, with surrealism at its best. No one but Luis Buñuel could have done this better :-) The symbolisms are laden in every other scene, and if you are patient to decifer it, you'll be touched in so many different ways by this movie. There was no DVD of this. But luckily Stanford Library has Video cassettes which they rent too. It was a black and white.
The plot is weird if anything: During a formal dinner party at the home of Señor Nobile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women plays a piano sonata. Later, instead of leaving, the guests remove their jackets, loosen their gowns, and settle down for the night. By morning it is apparent that for some inexplicable reason, they are trapped in the room....
Better known as Midaq Alley, i remember having seen a lot of parts of this movie back in india on TV.
"Don Ru (Ernesto Gómez Cruz) owns a local cantina where his son Chava spends most of its time. Güicho's son, Abel (Bruno Bichir), dreams of working in the United States to make enough money to date the beautiful Alma (Salma Hayek), his neighbor. Alma does not wait for Abel when she meets José Luis (Daniel Giménez Cacho).
Alma's mother Doña Cata (María Rojo) reads tarot and tells one of her clients, Susanita (Margarita Sanz), that she will meet the man of her dreams. This man turns out to be Güicho (Luis Felipe Tovar), the bartender at Don Ru's bar. Suffering from mid-life crisis, Don Ru cheats on his wife Eusebia with Jimy Ernesto Soberanes. When Chava finds out he beats and almost kills Jimy."
