Which non-Indian film did you watch recently

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Originally Posted by groucho070

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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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

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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Originally Posted by crajkumar_be

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Originally Posted by ajithfederer

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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Originally Posted by Groucho

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?