Paradise Lost
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Anupam Kher, Birbal, Children in Cinema, Cinema of India, Innocence, Iranian cinema, Kashmir, Movie review, Purav Bhandare, Rahul Bose, Review, Santosh Sivan, Sarika, Tahaan, Tahaan review, The Terrorist, Theeviravadhi: The Terrorist, War, terrorism in cinema
Santosh Sivan is one of those very few DOP turned directors that are spoken of nowadays. In spite of their box office results, Santosh Sivan’s films always create expectations. It is not often that we see a wide release of his films. And when they do, it is wise to catch them up on the […]
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2815: A Space Odyss-E
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Andrew Stanton, CG animation, EVE, Future, Futuristic Films, Hollywood, Ice Age, Pixar, Presto, Review, Robots, Scrat, Thomas Newman, WALL-E, WALL•E, animation, spaceships
Right from the inception of fully computerized animation in Toy Story (1995), Pixar has been the best in their domain, by and large (no puns intended, hope none taken!). Time and again, I have been swept away by each one of their films. How I wish every time that some other animation company in USA […]
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Flashbach #30
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Bharathan, Cinema of India, Flashback, Sakthi, Shivaji Ganeshan, Tamil films, Thevar, Thevar Magan, Villages in films, anti-violence films, films and violence, godfather, kamal haasan
Thevar Magan (1992) (aka The Chieftain’s Son)
Bharathan
Tamil
“Go on, go educate your kids”
The slew of movies in Tamil cinema based on villages stopped with the late eighties as cities became the prime audience of the filmmakers. Though infinitely many stories still lie in the villages waiting to be told, not many movies from the nineties […]
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Epilogue
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Batch mates, COnvocation, Certificate, Degree, Department, Engineers, Ice Tea, Juniors, KPN, Life, NITT, Seniors, Snacky, bangalore, college, hostel, nostalgia, placement, travel, trichy
I’m sure that many of the fellow Nittians will be looking forward to breaking their blogging dormancy with the culmination of the most awaited event in college life – the one that affirms your illusion that you are an engineer. So am I. So here go the details of the trip to Trichy where I […]
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From Story Books to Literature
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Classics, Crime and Punishment, Dunia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humanity, Raskolnikov, Razumikhin, Redemption, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Russian Literature, Sofia Semenovna, St. Peterburg, Svidrigailov, books, murder, psychiology
After a immensely long time, I decided to read a book and boy, what a book it was. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is quite simply the best book I’ve read. (Though that is no big deal, it does not reduce the quality of the book in any way). I was amazed by how […]
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Flashback #29
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Abbas Kiarostami, All Posts, Avant Garge films, Cinema of France, Cinema of Iran, Cinema of the US, Flashback, Iranian directors, Iranian society, Minimalist films, Palm D'Or nominee, Ten, Women in Iran, Women in cinema, film inside a car
Ten (2002) (aka 10)
Abbas Kiarostami
Persian
“You are wholesalers. We are retailers”
There are not more than a handful of directors who have the special ability to look beyond the boundaries and hop over the conventions of the medium. Abbas Kiarostami, with his radically fresh perspective and consistent streak of “different” films, undoubtedly is in the cream […]
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Joker On The Loose!
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Aaron Eckhart, All Posts, Batman, Batman Begins, Christian bale, Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, Gordon, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Joker, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Review, The Dark Knight, Two Face, superhero
The DC versus Marvel battle continues as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight arrives along the wake of the success of Iron Man (2008). With almost all of the filmdom going gaga over the performance of Heath Ledger even before the film’s release, it was but naturally clever for Warner Brothers to leverage this mass curiosity […]
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Flashback #28
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Balraj Sahni, Bimal Roy, Bollywood, Calcutta, Cannes film festival, Cinema of India, Do Bhiga Zamin, Flashback, Neo Realism, Shambhu, villages in cinema
Do Bhiga Zamin (1953) (aka Two Acres Of Land)
Bimal Roy
Hindi
“The land is the farmer’s mother. How can I sell my mother?”
Post-war world cinema has been undoubtedly influenced by the Italian realist wave - be it the hard-hitting social commentary by Rosselini and Visconti or the soft delineation of day-to-day struggle by De Sica. After […]
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Flashback #27
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Anita Ekberg, Cinema of Italy, Federico Fellini, Flashback, Fontana di Trevi, Great film openings, Italian Cinema, La Dolce Vita, Marcelo, Marcelo Mastroianni, Michelangelo Antonioni, Modernisation, Palm D'Or at Cannes 1960, Sylvia, alienation, jesus statue
La Dolce Vita (1960) (aka The Sweet Life)
Federico Fellini
Italian
“You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home”
Whenever there is a discussion on Fellini’s ultimate masterpiece, the inevitable finalists are 8½ (1963) and La Dolce Vita (1960). Critics are thoroughly polarized on the […]
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Flashback #26
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Aguirre, All Posts, Apocalypse Now, Cinema of Germany, Flashback, Forests in film, German Cinema, Klaus Kinski, Mind and movies, Peru, Ship on a tree, South America, Spanish invasion of South America, The Wrath of God, Werner Herzog
Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (1972) (aka Aguirre: The Wrath Of God)
Werner Herzog
German
“I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I’ll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.”
At the time when Rainer Werner Fassbinder was churning out a film in every two or three months, his contemporaries had […]
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