Posts Tagged With: Cinema
Mom and Mavis
Given it is called the Man Asian Literary Prize, there’s something to be said for the fact that a woman has finally won it. On Thursday, it was announced that Kyung-sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mom, had been awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize, making her the first woman and the first South Korean [...]
Kate Winslet’s Hand
Alan Cowan is one of those annoying men with whom you really can’t have a conversation because every other minute, his phone rings and you’ve lost him to a disembodied voice. As his wife Nancy observes, there’s always somewhere other than here that he needs to be. At one point, Alan gets a call when [...]
What is Life?
Watching a solidly Christian film about the existential questions like what is life and the nature of grace is a weird experience after my recent encounter with the Christian right wing. When it’s a Terrence Malick film, it becomes all the more weird because Malick’s poetic, abstraction-filled storytelling leaves the viewer with more questions than [...]
Compare and Contrast
Generally when my friend and Photoshop genius Devang sends an email, it contains images that are severe manipulations of the truth. For example, my face on top of the body of a Ravi Varma woman or a common friend who works for Vogue as the cover model of the December issue, and so on. For [...]
Not a Drag
I’ll admit it. When I stood at the ticket counter of Priya Cinema in Kolkata to buy tickets for “Aar Ekti Premer Golpo” (“Just Another Love Story”), directed by a chap called Kaushik Ganguly and starring Rituparno Ghosh, I was prepared to be the one who would be weirdly embarrassed at Ghosh’s acting debut. Ghosh [...]
Fishy Business
About three years ago, a friend of mine at work said, “Hey, you’ve joined Facebook! Add me.” It came as a bit of a surprise because I hadn’t joined Facebook. But there was my name atop a Facebook profile, on her computer, obstinately insisting that I was indeed friends with some people she and I [...]
Roaring Success
The climax of Chris Morris’s “Four Lions” takes place at the London Marathon and involves a Honey Monster (he’s the mascot for a cereal), a Wookie and two snipers. The snipers are told to shoot the Honey Monster because in that costume is a jihadi suicide bomber and one of them shoots. He’s told to [...]
For the Love of Code
I walked out of “The Social Network” in a state of speechlessness. Actually, before I get into that, I should tell you I hadn’t planned to blog about “The Social Network”. If we lived in a comic-book world where our thoughts appeared in thought balloons, quite a few of my actions would have little pop-ups [...]
Generating Ys
When I saw the first trailer of Vipul Shah’s new movie, “Action Replayy“, I knew two things and had one question. The two things I gathered was that the film was a barely-disguised copy of “Back to the Future” and it was going to be very bad. The question I had was, why the extra [...]
Docu-drama
Over the past two weeks, I’ve seen three fantastic documentaries and a film that felt like a documentary for most part. Before my doorknob of a brain forgets why they were so superb, here’s a quick scan of “Exit Through the Gift Shop“, “No One Knows About Persian Cats“, “Two in the Wave” and “Mugabe [...]
World Domination
