Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

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Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)

I think this is the most 'direct' Kubrick film (apart from his earlier B/W films??) - e.g. in the morgue, the atypical redundant VO of the dead woman from the orgy scene, the final scene between Tom and Nicole...... Or has the master packed in more?
Thilak,
Your thoughts....

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I had the same impression. But considering Kubrick is a New yorker ( Even though Kubrick did settle down in England.) and this-is-his true "New york" film, I believe he had something to say about the city. He had kept it straight for the most part. I'm unaware of occults and discreet sex rituals of the upper crust, so maybe I couldn't absorb certain things. (the conspiracy is that he got killed by occult groups through some death wish ritual, when they got to know of this film. :lol: )

Reg. Woody Allen comparison wrt. Infidelity. He made lighter films of serious, darker themes with attachment to his characters, much unlike Kubrick. Kubrick was vehement towards form as much as content and did something magical with the purest cinematic tool - Camera and tried to cut through the medium. Woody was more old school kind of guy who married classic European film making to New york (pseudo-intellectual) sensibilities. I don't think he wanted to be pretentious and fail, so he mostly kept to his natural talent - humour. Although I believe he has it in him to explore darker themes.

Btw Kubrick's favorite filmmaker is fellow New yorker Woody Allen. 8-)

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Originally Posted by littlemaster1982

(500) Days of Summer - quite good and the soundtrack was great :musicsmile:

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:thumbsup: Summer is a nailed-on "She" representation. Kuthunga ejaman kuthunga...:lol:

Have you also checked out the dance number (based on bank heist movies like Bonnie and Clyde) and a short spoof on "Sid and Nancy". Both available in youtube. :)

Read about it but yet to see. Will check out :)

ah rendu (penelope cruz)

naalu (nicole kidman)

aaru (marion cottilard)

yettu

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810053986/trailer

anybody checked this out??.

A fan of DDL, pretty much a must-watch for me. Cotillard is a great actress. Her perf. in "La Vie en rose" is like "Sophie's choice" of our generation. :shock:

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Originally Posted by kid-glove

A fan of DDL, pretty much a must-watch for me. Cotillard is a great actress. Her perf. in "La Vie en rose" is like "Sophie's choice" of our generation. :shock:

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Great combination of beauty and talent. Am I the only one who saw The Good Year (2006) :oops: and liking it :oops2:

Strangers on a train :thumbsup:

Swappin Murders is a cool idea even now. And this is from 1951 :clap:.

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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

Strangers on a train :thumbsup:

Swappin Murders is a cool idea even now. And this is from 1951 :clap:.

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:cool2:

the movie was inspired by a book (same name)..

but make no mistake.. hitchcock is the bret hart of hollywood.. excellence of execution :bow:

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Originally Posted by Raikkonen

but make no mistake.. hitchcock is the bret hart of hollywood.. excellence of execution :bow:

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Adanggoniya, Hitchcock-a wrestler range-ukku kondupoyitenggalaa!

SOT is not his best...in fact, sad to say, the script was co-written by one of my favourite writers, Raymond Chandler. Chandler had terrible experience working with Hitch and hated him immensely (he also hated Billy Wilder with whom he worked with on Double Indemnity, Chandler is not exactly nice guy that way). Chandler also bitched that most of what he wrote never ended up on screen. Also, during one of the discussion session when Hitchcok arrived, Chandler had famously remarked, "Look at that fat b***ard getting out of the car." :lol:

The movie was good. The villain 8-).

Nice to see an old fashioned tennis match in the movie.

P.S: Actually when I came upon this film I knew that you too guys had earlier given good comments about the film.