INTO THE WILD

Wilderness wasn't his dream. Wilderness for able to skin to the bare self was his Alaska. His great adventure. Many men do it. Many die doing it. He chose to pen it along. He for this reason remains immortal and now on silver screen. Beautiful. One may only curse himself for not getting to this movie earlier. Or curse himself for had forsaken beauty in books and movies or to simply put in men's words!

The Kid

the following few scenes capture just small part of "WHAT A MOVIE - THE KID - IS?" statement... 

and thats about it on how poignant the movie gets you. Rest is the hilarious tramp and absolutely charming kid .. then to put up critique's mask for the sake of a movie made in 1921 - WONDERFUL!!

watched it as part of some Criterion collection on Hulu plus - http://www.hulu.com/watch/215892/the-kid

Gran Torino

.. heart locked in Gran Torino
.. beats a lonely rythm all night long

i waited for the final scene and all the pieces almost suddenly came in together (not that the pieces were flying around like in Nolan's movies)

And then the song is been in auto-play mode all night long since ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUDEuNOjuY&NR=1

Saapno se bhare naina ...

life and its ambitions, its pain and its charm!

song does well - mainly the picturisation - to show it all ..

being immortal ...

is about being mortal 1000 times over :) ... and rest of us just keep on role playing over and over again ...

that is what caught fancy of me in this movie. Only if they hadn't kept the ending stereotypical!!

All made sense..

Baccano : 20 something characters. All driven by different cause-effects. Scared to hell Hero. Dumb damsel who could put anyone in distress 1

Death Note : Lighto and L. Not the abbreviation but the fierce friends. Black and White. Checkmates.. 1

Wake up Sid : Mumbai rains! 1

Before Sunrise : Prelude to exciting effects... 1

Invictus : Nelson Mandela says - "How do we inspire ourselves to greatness, when nothing less will do? How do we inspire everyone around us?" 1

House M.D. - House might say - "How do I inspire myself to greatness, when nothing less will do? how do I ground everyone around?" 1

The Man from Earth - A conversation with 2100 years old Yeshu... 1

12 Angry Men - Ek ruka hua faisla ... 1

V for Vendetta - Vendetta was never this musical... 1

Shangrila (newer one) - Hidden heaven.. It made all sense to me... 1

Before Sunset - day's encounter .. a feminist meets american again 1

Queen - re-discovered it... ever heard this song? "Bicycle .. Bicycle .. I want to ride my Bicycle!"1

John Lennon - Dreamer|Working Class Hero|Jealous Guy ... heard them before.. knew them never 1

Legend

1 English Movies

1 Music

1 Books

1 Anime TV Series

1 TV Series

1 Hindi Movies

w@king life!

Dream
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ever have caught urself in that jungle? The movie's about that. Oh my i would see this movie yet again and update a blog on it !!

5 vs 3

I don't get it. Why is he crying?

AK for some weird reason acts "vocal" Chaplin. SJ does what he does least best. MD is again wasted. BI overdoes it for very first time. The jokes are pale - starting with Astronaut pens.

What followed first? AK Preaching or the Preaching script?? I wonder!

What followed next? Vacuum pump driven suction pipe, web-camera driven delivery, car batteries driven virus-inverter. Go figure!!

May be one should go back to following movie for more subtle preaching! 'In which Annie gives those ones'. (due credits to Mr. D for introducing me to that movie)

So Chetan Bhagat should essentially be happy that his 5 point someone still remains the original awe-some piece which hasn't been still put on silver screen yet!!

and if he thinks it is ... 5 point some one ka balatkaar ho gaya!!

W@ke up S!d ...

.. definitely looking forward to this. But only if they (the Yash rajs and Yash Chopras) keep away the stereotyped notions. No foreign locations, no promotional hip song, no gay jokes, no disco number, no item (either he or she) numbers, no great looking character beyond the demand of the character.. just keep it raw.. just let the sid wake up ! !

Reached their climax way before 'The End' ...

Delhi~6 and now Kaminey .. both the movies reached their 'The End' even before the 2nd half started. None had any more to suggest post the Intermission. Both these movies failed in keeping away the sense of 'déjà vu' .. been there seen that - gimme something new .. they ended up like a failed attempt to master all the characterizations and 'short bios', not that कि these characterizations and actors/actresses playing those bios were ever below entertaining and fun (except for AB baby who was the only let down in Delhi~6). Neither could give a satisfactory climax to the foreplay. Anyways, both the movies had distinct art-work of respective directors and sounded equally well throughout (with Kaminey's retro and classy appeal setting your boots thumping, sometimes ticklish feeling of nostalgia works, but that's only when Music plays.. ). I just hope that these are just fore plays to a movie (from any one of them) that would just have it all ... one single masterpiece ...

reviews for both these movies that made parallel sense to me -

http://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/gf-reviews-kaminey/

and

http://celluloidrant.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/delhi-6/

Waltz With Bashir

An animated movie that blew me away. I understand this already is quite a popular film with just a lone lose at Oscar's (2009).

A film is about the Israeli filmmaker's (Ari Folman) attempt at gathering lost war-memories. Through the movie, which is about the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, the foot soldiers, the innocent civilians and a lone journalist narrate the events/nightmares/dreams/songs/'boy holding an RPG' back to him and he is just able to recollect one, which no one comprehends to.

How amazing is our mind to be able to wane out the memories that trouble us, just to keep us sane, just to keep us alive. It rubbishes the poignant details and replaces them with the milder vanities. And just when you see your life had no such scars, it's the other side of conscience which starts rubbing them all over again. This is what movie is about to the director and least it is about war.

Coming to animation part. Outstanding and amazing. I remember childhood animated series such ,as Jonny Quest, used to amaze me with the details detailing each and every lineament muscles of character. This movie along with brilliant back ground graphics and narration, gets added to one of the precious films I treasure.

I have greater tendency to liking a film on its poignant score, but this one surely scores way above in other departments .. narration/animation/music/intention ..

p.s. I watched it in DVD which had no subtitles ( film is in Hebrew ! ) and therefore I downloaded one from net and linked it to my film using VLC player ( i did that for first time and I am excited about it :D)

Dear Frankie...

a beautiful movie after really long time. Watching this I m turning fan for Brit movies. The language, the accent, the poise... the circumstances and the conflicts and not so perfect solutions... the mother talks to his Son through the letters meant from/to his dad (who's a sailor) ... the son so yearns to meet his dad that he keeps track of the sail across oceans (in a world atlas in his room)... a stranger who accepts to be part of a deal to be son's dad for a day leaves in sheer amazement of this relationship

(i have been lying to my son every single day) "..(no) you have been protecting your son every single day"

.. and then the dying Father's last wish to see his son against the ma's last shield to her son... loved the movie and highly recommend it even - here's the IMDB link

How many of you have seen this...

Mithya. I hadn't until today. Director - Rajat Kapoor Script by - Rajat and Saurabh Cast - Ranvir, Neha, Naseer,Harsh Chhaya, Vinay, Saurabh etc. All of them at the same place. How much fun they might have had making this movie. All the veterans but never the superstars. All the actors but never the cynosure of our eyes. All the people and never a dangling character. Sums up a great movie and never ever a lose intent along the way. Beautiful because they weren't making a type casted movie. Creative because there is no place i have seen this before. Bold because experiment was totally out of the league. Rajat Kapoor is a good director!!!

Desi Gays in Videsi Mitti...

with Dostana it is again thus proved we Indians, at least that's what Karan believes, accept extra marital affairs or homosexuality or live in relation ship (among Indians) only in phoren lands of USA, Autralia and UK. So its OK to ship all this across seas and prove a hit among hypocritical us but its not ok if its filmed in motherland ... whys that??

wonder when the real secret will be out.. come on Karan .. we need to know... u do it in India or videshi mitti!!!

The sane world...

As i was watching Forrest Gump and was asked by roommates whats this about .. i tried to sum this up ..

"how only an insane (with his jenny) could survive through sanity of the world around" ...

How he made it past - the shackles of polio, schools of sane, college of brights, Vietnam war (by and for the sane world), Hurricane Carmen and Shrimping venture...

How he could only be in trust with few -
Mrs. Gump (because she did let the stupid do as stupid does),
Jenny (because she didn't believe there is anyone who could be trusted.. not even herself),
Bubba (because he had no dream but to dream about shrimp),
Lt. Dan (because he could not understand if the Forrest was curse or the blessing to him)

What Forrest never understood -
"Who I'm gonna be? ... Aren't I going to be me?"

How Forrest sums it up -
"Now, because I had been a football
star, and a war hero, and a national
celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat
captain, and a college graduate, the
of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama,
decided to get together and offered me a fine job"