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Reviewed Rashomon Movie

Seeing is NOT believing!

Nov 01, 2004 04:07 AM | 3870 Views
(Updated Nov 01, 2004 04:07 AM)

The year was 1951. The jury at the Venice International Film Festival sat down to watch an entry from Japan. The movie was called Rashomon, directed by a no...Read more

Reviewed Red Beard Movie

The Master’s Masterpiece!

Sep 27, 2004 01:57 AM | 4006 Views
(Updated Oct 28, 2004 07:17 PM)

For the last 1 year, I had been trying to lay my hands on a DVD of Akira Kurosawa’s 1965 masterpiece Red Beard (Akahige). I had heard a lot of great t...Read more

Reviewed Three Brothers Movie

A well-made movie…

Aug 16, 2004 11:25 PM | 3539 Views
(Updated Aug 16, 2004 11:30 PM)

Three Brothers [1981] was the first DVD I spotted in the Foreign Films section of my DVD library. The DVD cover was a subtle, squeaky-clean white, while the...Read more

Reviewed The Hidden Fortress Movie

Strategy at it’s best!

Jul 22, 2004 10:25 AM | 2929 Views
(Updated Jul 22, 2004 10:31 AM)

The Hidden Fortress [1958], directed by Akira Kurosawa, is considered to be the primal influence for George Lucas’ Star Wars. The movie is big in ever...Read more

Reviewed Veronica Guerin Movie

A Riveting True Story

Jul 12, 2004 01:00 AM | 2599 Views
(Updated Jul 12, 2004 01:01 AM)

Veronica Guerin [2003], directed by Joel Schumacher, is a true story of an Irish journalist of the same name who died during her attempts to bring the drug ...Read more

Reviewed In America Movie

Do you believe in magic?

Jul 05, 2004 02:35 AM | 2225 Views
(Updated Jul 05, 2004 02:41 AM)

In America [2002], directed by Jim Sheridan, is a beautiful and touching movie about an Irish immigrant family’s first year in America. Based on the d...Read more

Reviewed Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Movie

Poetry in Motion

Jul 01, 2004 12:51 AM | 3168 Views
(Updated Sep 22, 2004 03:14 PM)

Messages are aplenty in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams [1990]. The movie consists of eight episodes, or dreams, with themes ranging from environment conserva...Read more

Reviewed Pulp Fiction Movie

Zed’s dead, baby! Zed’s dead!

Jun 18, 2004 12:20 AM | 4959 Views
(Updated Jun 18, 2004 12:34 AM)

Pulp Fiction, former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino?s second directorial venture, was released in 1994. It boasted of a huge star cast: John Travolta, ...Read more

Reviewed Hiroshima - John Hersey

The Horrors of War

Jun 10, 2004 09:02 PM | 7865 Views
(Updated Jun 10, 2004 09:08 PM)

August 06, 1945, Hiroshima. Dr. Ferufumi Sasaki walked around one of the corridors of the huge Red Cross Hospital with a blood specimen for a test. Mr...Read more

Reviewed Scarface -Hollywood Movie

The world is yours!

May 26, 2004 12:38 AM | 3186 Views
(Updated May 26, 2004 01:24 AM)

Al Pacino. Oliver Stone. Brian de Palma. That pretty much sums up why you should see Scarface. Those of you who aren’t convinced yet, read on. S...Read more

Reviewed Sanjuro Movie

Another Samurai classic from Kurosawa

May 20, 2004 11:55 PM | 1954 Views
(Updated May 21, 2004 12:01 AM)

Toshiro Mifune gives another power-packed performance as the wandering, master-less samurai in Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie, Sanjuro. Often regarded as...Read more

Reviewed The Shining Movie

Here’s Johnny!

May 18, 2004 12:59 AM | 2757 Views
(Updated May 18, 2004 01:11 AM)

I don?t usually watch horror movies. I made an exception with this one, because of the following reasons: It?s a Stanley Kubrick film based on a Stephen ...Read more

Reviewed Sethu Movie

A tragic love story

May 11, 2004 12:52 AM | 19806 Views
(Updated May 11, 2004 09:31 AM)

When Sethu was released, it became a flop. Nobody wanted to see a movie made by a debutant director with a flop hero and an unknown heroine. Many walked off...Read more

Reviewed Punnagai Mannan Movie

A Timeless Classic!

May 04, 2004 10:34 AM | 6439 Views
(Updated May 04, 2004 10:35 AM)

Punnagai Mannan is undoubtedly one of the best love stories of Tamil cinema. Directed by K. Balachander, one of the best directors of Tamil cinema, this is ...Read more

Reviewed We Are Not Your Monkeys

Dark Side of the Epic

May 01, 2004 01:07 PM | 2976 Views
(Updated May 01, 2004 03:09 PM)

Anand Patwardhan’s We are not your Monkeys is about many things: the caste system, gender oppression and humanity. Backdrop: The Ramayana. Thematic...Read more

Reviewed In the Name of God

Stop in the Name of Man!

Apr 25, 2004 01:01 AM | 2816 Views
(Updated Apr 27, 2004 10:05 AM)

The Alliance Française presented a few documentary films by noted film-maker Anand Patwardhan a few days back. When it was announced that the first fil...Read more

Reviewed Amadeus Movie

Mozart immortalised

Apr 19, 2004 05:57 PM | 3376 Views
(Updated Apr 19, 2004 06:06 PM)

''Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.'' - Henry Threadgill What better way t...Read more

Reviewed The Battleship Potemkin Movie

Long live the revolution!

Apr 09, 2004 01:29 AM | 2583 Views
(Updated Apr 09, 2004 01:34 AM)

The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein, is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Released in 1925, this film was actually a project...Read more

Reviewed Scandal Movie

An under-rated gem

Apr 07, 2004 03:31 PM | 1949 Views
(Updated Apr 07, 2004 03:31 PM)

At the surface level, Scandal (1950) is just another courtroom drama. But as one digs deeper, one stumbles upon an assortment of themes, some of which are: ...Read more

Reviewed Ratha Kanneer Movie

Tears of Blood

Mar 30, 2004 11:59 AM | 9697 Views
(Updated Mar 30, 2004 09:35 PM)

The year was 1954. Independent India was only 7 years old. M. R. Radha had recently broken the very basic rule of theater acting: he showed his back to the ...Read more

Reviewed Mismatched Season 3

Mismatched Season 3 Review

By: apatil 4 days ago | 418 Views

Mismatched Season 3 is a romantic series inspired by the book When Dimple Met Rishi, by Sandhya Menon. It follows Rishi Singh Shekhawat, played by Rohit Sar...Read more

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