Charlie: The Life & Art of Charlie Chaplin
Superb stuff. Written by Richard Schiekel, concerntrated more on the art than the life, so it's a must for film buffs, especially Kamal fans :wink: Oh, and Woody Allen fans too. I am looking at you, P_R. :D
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Charlie: The Life & Art of Charlie Chaplin
Superb stuff. Written by Richard Schiekel, concerntrated more on the art than the life, so it's a must for film buffs, especially Kamal fans :wink: Oh, and Woody Allen fans too. I am looking at you, P_R. :D
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Originally Posted by groucho070
I actually forgot about the driver by the time the film ended. :oops:
Oh yeah...he was excellent.Quote:
Bogart was an inspiring choice because "he can be tough without a gun".
Yeah many like that. Quite enjoyable.Quote:
Eddie Mars: Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?
Philip Marlowe: Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one?
Eddie Mars: Is that any of your business?
Philip Marlowe: I could make it my business.
Eddie Mars: I could make your business mine.
Philip Marlowe: Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.
Oh paathura vENdiyadhu dhaan.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
Actually I haven't seen many Chaplin films
The Immigrant, Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times and some shorts on TV which I don't know by name.
Among his talkies I was not that impressed by Great Dictator. Was bored by the few minutes of King in New York which I saw recently.
edhukkum documentary-ai paarthu vaippOm :lol2:
Double Indemnity
Now that's an enjoyable film.
Thrilling without having to give much time handicap.
After 'Big Sleep' I guess I was okay with a relatively straight story, told well.
As far as my personal evaluation goes, Wilder vittadhai pudichuttAr :P
Chandler had headache adapting the novel for screen, pointed out the original author's (Cain) poor writing. That "everything he touches, smells of Billy goat" :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Plus, issues with Wilder hated seeing him walking and swinging Malacca cane, which he calls, "monkey stick".
I am definitely biased when I say this is Wilder's best. Maybe :? Thilak sandaikku vanthuraporaaru.
Rendume heavy on politics (left-leaning). GD had a very poor speech scene at the end, spoils everything. King is blatantly political, though the reality TV thing was a bit prophetic.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Speaking of GD, can anyone confirm on whether Hitler was influenced by Chaplin for that mustache. Speaking of mustache, PR innum irukka eduttacha? :P
"Exit Through The Gift Shop"
While the movie is one in which I paused and went back just to see the pieces shown...the whole premise being a hoax would help me sleep better at night...
The Banksy art was intriguing: http://www.banksy.co.uk/index.html
Banksy Film, A Hoax :?: : http://www.fastcompany.com/1616365/b...-prankumentary
:exactly: aanaa adhai aahA oHonnu pugazhndhuttAnga. kEttA humanisaumnuttaanga.Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
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Speaking of GD, can anyone confirm on whether Hitler was influenced by Chaplin for that mustache.
I like the Adenoid Hynkel speech though. Total gibberish, nadu naduvula "sauerkraut" ellAm varum :rotfl:
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Originally Posted by groucho070
ippo additionalA (a la My Dear maarthANdan) dhaavaankattaila oru vaNdu ukkAndhirukku.
Watching The Inside Man Opening Credits. It opens with Universal's Logo with ARR's Chaiyya chaiyya song and after Clive Owen's monologue the music continues with the other credits.
Nice and Good.
:lol: That's Gounds' comment right? Sariya nyabagam illa. Anyway same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
The Pianist - for those with a taste for eternity
PR & grouch,
The Big Sleep is an excellent film (as I mentioned earlier), but as you mentioned, it's too complex to understand the plot the first time. I also needed to rewind and enable subtitles for certain dialogues, but once everything is understood, for subsequent viewing, it was very engrossing to me, especially the dialogues, very sarcastic. Bogart at his best.
Also, there are few changes done in the film (as mentioned by grouch) compared to the actual novel.
In the actual novel, Carmen (Vivian's sister) Killed Reagan, but in the film, it is blamed on Mars.
There is one scene in the movie which is perhaps all the film was about.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Brody - a Jew in hiding in Warsaw taken over by the Nazis - is made to hide in an apartment. He is to live without making his existence known to neighbours. His friends will come by and leave him food.
The apartment has a piano, which he 'plays'. He hears the music although his fingers are a few inches above the keyboard as he plays in the air.
A lovely moment. Encapsulates his condition, of those like him, humanity at large etc.
Problem is, it comes about a tedious hour and a half into the movie.
An unbelievably superficially written hour and half. Characters as simple, heartspeaking, convenient as they get. Scenes and situations just a series of cliches. Yes it is real-life based so those situations are familiar. Granted. But it did not evoke the kind of impact it ought to have.
Respect for Spielberg trebles :bow: The train scene from which Neeson rescues Ben Kingsley. Heart vaaikku vandhurum. There are sequences like that here which make no impact whatsover.
You have a random pick-up and shoot, o the cruelty of Nazis, scenes. Again not a patch on Schindler.
The 'useless' professor who is sent to work as a factory marvelling at the production of a utensil. What a goddawesome moment in Schindler. That is a true human moment. :bow:
Many conversations are :lol: worthy.
Height was one where they are all waiting for the train to take them to the camps. One gendilman is reading Shylock
Brody: what are you reading
P1: (starts quoting full emotion) if you prick us do we not bleed/if you wrong us shall we not revenge
If you start with a weak, bland content it's going to be tough to make an interesting film out of it.
'Humanity at large', 'Human condition' seem little too nuanced to find currency in Schindler's. It's a mighty simplistic dual parable of monster (the bigger challenge is to show the human in the monster unlike the 'Goeth'ification here) and messiah that are as subtle as sledgehammer. Is it effective? Possibly. And it's also extremely unethical with regards to stylization of 'the cruelty of Nazis. And the jarring multiple POVs made it even more problematic (As against Pianist's carefully realized POV of the oppressed)
I think superficiality is a virtue of all holocaust films rendered in English. In fact, the characterizations, conversations and style of acting in Polanski's film seems lot closer to the behavior that I have seen in European WWII films (in the original language) than Schindler's, which apart from being somewhat Americanized, also suffers from a conspicuously melodramatic score (Extremely effective I admit).
Our ongoing debate to what is 'real' in films (and its importance) is best emphasized by Pianist, Schindler's vis-a-vis the 'what-if?' scenario (although made extremely plausible) of Inglorious basterds. While the former is informed by real-life happenings (edited, rewritten and dramatized of course), it's compromised by lack of authenticity in language and behavioral gestures. Suggestiveness is required to elevate the experience. OTOH, a film like Inglorious basterds addresses, and is extremely concerned about some of these aspects that it even comments on it. The lingual specificity is a matter of life and death. This is where you find QT so much more 'meta-' and advanced. Pity about the cocky demeanor in some of the interviews, the man is so much more than that.
Zizek andrE sonnar:
"Schindler's List is, at the most basic level, a remake of Jurassic Park (and, if anything, worse than the original), with the Nazis as the dinosaur monsters, Schindler as (at the film's beginning) the cynical-profiteering and opportunistic parental figure, and the ghetto Jews as threatened children (their infantilization in the film is eye-striking) - the story the film tells is about Schindler's gradual rediscovery of his paternal duty towards the Jews, and his transformation into a caring and responsible father."
edhai solreenga?Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
It was universally horrific. Random acts of violence, the old man made to do situps in the buff to show he is fit (enought to live on), Fiennes shooting the boy - every single one was extremely impactful. And 'real'.
OTOH the Nazis in Pianist were monsters. NY celebration ragging, dance as you wait at the level crossing ragging etc, slap the old armbanded man who does not salute, no sidewalk for you people, walk in the gutter, shoot the meek woman who asks a simple question etc.
ennanga solreenga. PadamE adhu dhaanE. I could have done more.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
:lol: kizhinjudhu. enakku nyAbagam irukkuRa oNNu reNdu BGM score-la idhuvum oNNu.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
Zizek sonnadhu valid readingnE vachukuvOm, what is problematic about that ?
I'm speaking in formal terms. How it is shown. Pianist is much more real and shows ugly as 'ugly' and repulsive. Schindler's OTOH seemed to find pleasure in its tracking shots, sniper shots, and even the young girl's death. Cheap shot at death shower. What not?!Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
'Human condition' isn't just about showing the extremes of bad and good in a simplistic manner.Quote:
ennanga solreenga. PadamE adhu dhaanE. I could have done more.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
I admit it was effective. But Pianist seemed less superficial precisely for not having such a score. And less of 'messiah' moments. 'Ayyo paavam'-nu remba contrived-A irundha eppadi?Quote:
:lol: kizhinjudhu. enakku nyAbagam irukkuRa oNNu reNdu BGM score-la idhuvum oNNu.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
remba plain-A B/W-a irukku. Idhukku ivalo sound-A? avalo thaan.Quote:
Zizek sonnadhu valid readingnE vachukuvOm, what is problematic about that ?
I found the people in list far far from real than the single purpose characters who populated the pianist. The 'useless' professor's sense of wonder at the utensil factory is one of the Most human moments in film history. Poignant, funny, inspiring, tragic all rolled into one. What is killed when people are killed is that kind of a mind. Perhaps this what zizek calls infantile. :lol2:
Yeah, maybe if all the jews who get killed weren't reduced to merely hapless, Zizek would have digged it more than just 'infantile' methinks. :P
I too like the Pianist more to Schindler's List. Not that S-L is bad or something but I like The Pianist more.
Charlies Angels - Full Throttle - Crazy stunts, dumb boy friends(for a change eh?) sleazy comedy and a wafer thin story line. They could have made this into a decent franchise if they worked on the above. But hey who cares. I wish they make a third film with some new chicks :lol:.
P.s: I like the song "A girl like you" by Edward Collins just before the climax.
Double Jeopardy: A man fakes his murder and frames his own wife for it. The Wife learns his deceit and comes out in parole and tries to avenge him. Ashley Judd is good. Not bad.
The Bridges of Madison County: Naan solrardhu irukkatum, Eastwood fans what do you think about this film?. I was feeling what the heck is Clint doing in a chicks movie.
Unthinkable.
Dont know what was the whole intention of the director, behind making this movie.. looked ridiculous.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
A British disaster film on a man carrying deadly plague in his body infects a train of 1000 passengers on a European Train. Very Good considering the time it was made.
எனக்கு ரெண்டு படமுமே பிடிக்கலை. (Schindler's List & Pianist) ரெண்டுத்தையும் பாக்க சொல்லவே தூங்கிட்டேன்.
etthana new chicks vandhaalum seri, drew barrymore kandippa irukkanum :lol:.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Black Swan :clap: :clap:
How to Train your Dragon :cool: :clap:
Of Gods And Men. Good. Simple, intimate and a couple of unforgettable images.
A Prophet... Powerful images especially the ending sequences...good acting all around... :thumbsup:
Mother..great acting by Hye-Ja Kim..:thumbsup:...but slightly disappointed with the ending....
Pretty Woman and this, two of the most overrated mush without substance flicks...or so I would like to say but I fell asleep before making it through either of them. :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
wanted to watch this film! Thanks for reminder :)Quote:
Originally Posted by thamburaj
"How to Train Your Dragon" :2thumbsup:
Gobber: Now, you're thinking about this all wrong! It's not so much what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand.
Hiccup: Thank you for summing that up!
:D yeah watched that as well a couple of weeks back - probably my most fav Pixar movie (every pixar movie i watch seem to update this status :lol:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Querida
TS 3 was fun!! but as a 3d movie , i didn really see any difference with or without those polarized glasses. :SQuote:
Originally Posted by directhit
Y?Quote:
Originally Posted by Roshan
U didnt like the movie, huh?
The Social Network.
Bluray. Movie of the year, easily. (Except Inception all that I watched this year was Genus Species crap)
watched a shorter version of the movie during a flight.....it was okay...i didn't enjoy it that much..it showed as if mark z was just overly serious and i wasn't too drawn to the character they portrayed off himQuote:
Originally Posted by VENKIRAJA
the best ever film I watched on flight was "Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind" :thumbsup: was totally riveted.Quote:
Originally Posted by chevy
The Invention of Lying (2009)
The film features a high concept narrative set in an alternate reality in which there is no such thing as lying and everything said is the absolute truth. In this world people continually make very blunt, often cruel statements, and remarks that people in the real world would normally keep to themselves. The concepts of fiction, imagination and speculation do not exist resulting in the movie industry being limited to lecture-style historical readings, television commercials being straightforward and an absence of religion.
A funny but an interesting fantasy premise. The protagonist Ricky Gervais(Writer/Director) somehow stumbles on an accidental lie and he discovers the art of lying. A feel Good film. Darling Jennifer Garner being in the film is an additional reason to watch. She looked very pretty and acted pretty decent.
The Town
Worth a watch!!!
Tangled in 3D - Strictly OK. The most important relationship in the film that of Rapunzel and her mother Gothel was superficial. But Rapupnzel - Flynn, Rapunzel - Pascal, Flynn - Maximus are all beautifully handled. There are way too many songs and unnecessary scenes. In fact I slept through that restaurant scene after Rapunzel and Flynn flee from Gothel's castle. One time watch.
Unthinkable (2010) :clap: .
Great acting by Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie Anne Moss and the terrorist guy.