Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

naamellAm straight-A saamiyAr/jOsiyar/ nAdi/thAyathu/thagadu/kairEgai peddlers kitta pOradhillayA. avungellAm ejjucated family. adhunaala religious hue irukkuradhu ellaam avoid paNNiruvaanga. REsanal approach wonly.

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naamellAm straight-A saamiyAr/jOsiyar/ nAdi/thAyathu/thagadu/kairEgai peddlers kitta pOradhillayA. avungellAm ejjucated family. adhunaala religious hue irukkuradhu ellaam avoid paNNiruvaanga. REsanal approach wonly.

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:D

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I confused this with "Notorious", which is easily better I guess.

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Absolutely! Liked Notorious and even Rear Window.
Psycho/Vertigo - Idhukka indha build-up? :huh:
Pseudo-psychoanalytic crap tholla thaala mudiyala pa :banghead:

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I haven't seen 'Spellbound', but Hitchcock and pseudo-psychoanalysis?! You can't be serious!

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I haven't seen 'Spellbound', but Hitchcock and pseudo-psychoanalysis?! You can't be serious!

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Naan sonna ennaya payithiyakkaaran nu solreenga illa, inga paarunga :razz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_(1945_film)

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Although Spellbound was a critical and box office success in its day,[3] François Truffaut, in his series of interviews with Hitchcock, said that he was disappointed in the film despite being fascinated by the legendary dream sequence and the "doors-within-doors" kissing scene between Bergman and Peck.[4] Hitchcock himself dismissed it later on as "Well, it's just another manhunt story wrapped in pseudo-psychology[5]
4: Truffaut, F: "Hitchcock" page 234-235. Paladin Grafton Books, 1984
5: Truffaut, F: "Hitchcock" page 234. Paladin Grafton Books, 1984

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I hardly rememer anything about Vertigo now but remember being disappointed after wathcing it. And schizophrenia (especially split personality theory) shown in movies naale enakku prachanai...

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[tscii]. And schizophrenia (especially split personality theory) shown in movies naale enakku prachanai...

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That is called the Anniyan-Chandramukhi effect!

Authentic portrayal is not sufficiently dramatic.

innaiku orE co-incidence-A irukku....

Watched Birds. (HD)
Freaking amazing. Actually, this man is interesting. Every frame looks like a wallpaper. All angles, camera lighting, locations, sets... enakku therinja ellAmE perfect-A irukku. kuRai solla theriyala. The script was taut and the acting was by far most convincing for the 50s and 60s. Due to the immunity developed cause of OtWF lead female's ferfaamans, I could digest this.

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innaiku orE co-incidence-A irukku....

Watched Birds. (HD)
Freaking amazing. Actually, this man is interesting. Every frame looks like a wallpaper. All angles, camera lighting, locations, sets... enakku therinja ellAmE perfect-A irukku. kuRai solla theriyala. The script was taut and the acting was by far most convincing for the 50s and 60s. Due to the immunity developed cause of OtWF lead female's ferfaamans, I could digest this.

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TSND

in ONWF the lead female played convincingly...she was pretty too

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innaiku orE co-incidence-A irukku....

Watched Birds. (HD)
Freaking amazing. Actually, this man is interesting. Every frame looks like a wallpaper. All angles, camera lighting, locations, sets... enakku therinja ellAmE perfect-A irukku. kuRai solla theriyala. The script was taut and the acting was by far most convincing for the 50s and 60s. Due to the immunity developed cause of OtWF lead female's ferfaamans, I could digest this.

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in ONWF the lead female played convincingly...she was pretty too

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AmA.. AmA... I'm confused with these films because IIRC I watched them in the same day or something.

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The Arrow sequence from "Throne of Blood" was impressive. It's pretty apparent that neck arrow is fake. And the sequence should be a series of different shots and 'match cut' edit. Mifune should have been patient while Akira and crew got the proper set of images.

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The Arrow sequence from "Throne of Blood" was impressive. It's pretty apparent that neck arrow is fake. And the sequence should be a series of different shots and 'match cut' edit. Mifune should have been patient while Akira and crew got the proper set of images.

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Thanks a lot Thilak

First video of yours I am watching (football and me are not the best of friends). Nice work :thumbsup: Please carry on.

ungaL sEvai nAttukku thEvai. :-)

Thanks PR. I'll try to do more on cinema (incl. a short video analysis of Synecdoche I have planned).

I'm trying to improve on Football compilations. Maybe some day I will make something that might cajole non-followers into the game. :D

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I'm trying to improve on Football compilations. Maybe some day I will make something that might cajole non-followers into the game. :D

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I used to be a follower...then along the way in the nineties I lost interest. Now that Spurs is doing okay, maybe I need charging up :D Or are we talking about the same football (soccer?) here? :?

There is only one Football.

The yanks lifted it to name their dour methodical game, and had the audacity to rename the beautiful game! :lol2:

I'm a 90's fan too. Best decade of football! :notworthy:

Spurs = Axis of Evil! :twisted:

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Spurs = Axis of Evil! :twisted:

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What a great way to earn "enemies", oru club support pannuna pothum :D Actually I started out supporting them back in the 80s. You know, Hoddle, Waddle (I know it rhymes) and Ardilles. Avingga kaalam. Interest waned as the club became weaker the next decade. Athukkappuram, I'd watch game only when with my brother, a fanatical MU supporter also from those days. So, I end up as MU "sympathiser", as in help to support him. But paarpom....

Yikes...wrong thread. PR vanthu miratta pooraaru...

Hoddle and Waddle were great players and technically gifted (rare breed for English bred players). But not until they left Spurs, they began to impress the world says I. (Hoddle at Monaco and Waddle at L'OM) :D

I hate Spurs fans more than the team, but I detest them with a passion. They are playing good football this season.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
Anyone watched this? Heard 'bout this film from twitter.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
Anyone watched this? Heard 'bout this film from twitter.

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I didn't watch it yet. But looking forward to it. I used a portion of Clint Mansell's soundtrack from this film for first few seconds in this compilation video. The second track is also a Clint Mansell track from film "Pi".

Transformers :shock: namburamaadhiriyE kaadhula poo suththuraanga .... to experience this movie, watch it in big screen :yes:

wt a beauty :tongueout: :slurp:

Got some really cheap DVDs, and understandably so because you never knew these films existed. Got them for RM9.90( US$2.80) each.

1. Mistress.
Co-Produced by De Niro, he plays one of the three financiers to-be of a script developed by Robert Wuhl (remember? Reporter in Batman 1989). Other two are Eli Wallach and Danny Aiello. Trouble is all three wants their mistresses to be in the film (shades of Bullets Over Broadway but this came out first in 1992). Both serious and satiric, and De Niro was funny. Liked this exchange. De Niro discussing the film with Wuhl, producer Martin Landau and an co-writer allakai.

dN: (some story suggestion)
Allakai: Great idea!
dN: How old are you?
Allakai: 24.
dN: I'll talk to you five years later.

2. Where The Buffaloes Roam.
Hunter S. Thompson. Gozo journalism. Drug. Great Bill Murray and greater Peter Boyle.

Made a mistake watching it sober. Reserved for weekend.

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2. Where The Buffaloes Roam.
Hunter S. Thompson. Gozo journalism. Drug. Great Bill Murray and greater Peter Boyle.

Made a mistake watching it sober. Reserved for weekend.

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Watched Fear and Loathing when I was young cherub. Must revisit under ideal conditions.

Ideal conditions? ;)

Harold and Kumar 2 - Funny but downright silly. Idhellam hangoverkku comparision aa :evil:

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Harold and Kumar 2 - Funny but downright silly. Idhellam hangoverkku comparision aa :evil:

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Adhu seri!
Anga siruthai (1st part) inga puli, prachanai ennavo onnu dhaan.. sirippu dhaan mukkiyam! :twisted:

Manhattan.
This guy is simply superb. What dialogues! The cinematography... all the night shots were brilliant. I didn't enjoy the kind of music that plays in the background. Its quite up there, but Annie Hall is better IMO.

Yen innum Dr. strangelove oda compare panni andha alavukku illai-nnu sollungalein :twisted: :P.

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Harold and Kumar 2 - Funny but downright silly. Idhellam hangoverkku comparision aa :evil:

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Adhu seri!
Anga siruthai (1st part) inga puli, prachanai ennavo onnu dhaan.. sirippu dhaan mukkiyam! :twisted:

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Allov

adhumillama The number of laughs per minute was crazy. There was a twist after a twist when i watched hangover for the first time. I mean the other three guys had no enough time to think about Doug as they had to face troubles right from the next day morning (Thanks to the sh!@t they did the previous night). It was all and well so co-ordinated. As a film Hangover >>>>> h and k. And the best thing with hangover is many could actually relate to it.

Sunset Boulevard :clap:

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Sunset Bouelevard.

To say this film is a classic would be an understatement. When you are doing proper scriptwriting course or workshop, mention Hollywood and works of Ernest Lehman, William Goldman, Charles Brackett, novelist turned scripwriters Dashiell Hammet, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler and the list will include German born writer/director Billy Wilder. (yes, Orson Welles is another one, but not consistent).

This film is easily his best.

A story about a out of job scriptwriter and an ageing ex-silent era movie star, the film is told totally from a dead man’s point of view. It begins with a body in the swimming pool of the star and voice over that narrates the tale is that of that corpse’s.

Gloria Swanson plays the forgotten star Norma Desmond who is the Miss Havisham of Tinseltown, waiting with her wedding cake for that glorious moment on big screen she no longer fits in post silent era Hollywood and the answer could be in the hands, or rather, the typewriter of young out of luck scriptwriter played by a terribly underrated William Holden, who himself is in it for the dough.

One good thing about Hollywood is that when it portrays itself onscreen, its merciless. The long suffering scriptwriters and directors are absolutely cynical with their view on the town that puts food on their table, and this film spares nothing of it at all. With cynicism comes dark humour and this film is full of it.

Gloria Swanson is not playing a character; she is herself being an ex-silent era star herself. Her over the top performance is a testimony on how out of sync she was with the world that she was forced to inhabit. She has not moved on from being the dramatic queen of silent era. When the hero tells her that she was big on screen once, she responds, “I am big. It’s the picture that got small”.

There is so much to go for in this film. The opening shot that follows cop to the body faced down on the pool. The witty crackling wisecracks. The whole issue about celebrity murder that is so contemporary (OJ Simpson anyone?). Miss Swanson doing a Charlie Chaplin impression (yes, way before Kamal). Oh, there are so much more in this satiric film noir.

By the way Cecille DeMille appears in this movie, ready on cue for one of the most quotable lines in Hollywood history by Swanson, “All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”

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Thoongara valakkamae illaya ?? :lol2:.

Ah CR, glad you liked it. I wrote that in response to PR's indifference to it. Hope others would watch it and appreciate one of the best scriptwriting effort in Hollywood.

AF...sooper avatar. Which film is this?

Great writeup.

That film deserves engagement, not admonition. :thumbsup:

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Thoongara valakkamae illaya ?? :lol2:.

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Naanga ellam thoongittom na naadu thaangaadhu!

Sariyana avatar-a irukku :lol:

Bala :lol:

Groucho, Reg avatar : I don't know from which film this is.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Sydney Lumet was 83 when he did this film. Boy, I wish I'd be as sharp and focussed like he must have been at that age, judging from this film. A disturbing thriller. If there's one director who knows how to make films about failed heist and its consequences to individuals inhabiting the film, it should be him. Look at The Anderson Tapes or Dog Day Afternoon (I know, I know, PR).

And wonderful performances from Phillip Seymour Hoffman (90s evaevanaiyo nambunen, but he turned out to be the hope), Ethan Hunt (why Tom Cruise? why not him?) & Albert Finney. And why is Marissa Tomei showing more and more skin nowadays. Is it some sort of atonement for wrongly winning best actress Oscar for My Cousin Vinny? :evil:

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Ethan Hunt (why Tom Cruise? why not him?)

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You meen Ethan Hawke.Ethan Hunt is Cruise's name in the MI series. Where does that leave you :lol2:

:lol: Yes birathar...decay of contemporary culture.

Ethan Hawke-kku enna koRai, Groucho?

What I meant was, why half-baked like Cruise get to be big, when Hawke, who has the good and acting chop never get to be as big as the Scientologist couch jumper.

Oh, maybe the answer is in the above sentence :roll:

Cruise had studio backing. He chose to work with the best production companies, and their marketing ensured he'd be the biggest prima donna of Hollywood. Hawke on the other hand, was always seen as a grownup-child artist who likes to work with independent filmmakers like Richard Linklater. The distribution, and hence the 'hype' was pretty low.

Btw, Am I right in thinking Will Smith is the undisputed No.1 at the moment?

Yes. There was some ranking done recently and he is number one. I got no issue with that. Very talented man, that former Fresh Prince of Bel Air.