I think I posted this clip here earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=uNLd_HpyeBw
Coat-ai closet-kuLLa pOttutttu oru cool leaning and look :lol:
I love the rain, it washes memories of the sidewalk of life :rotfl3:
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I think I posted this clip here earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=uNLd_HpyeBw
Coat-ai closet-kuLLa pOttutttu oru cool leaning and look :lol:
I love the rain, it washes memories of the sidewalk of life :rotfl3:
One of them films that he didn't direct. I still haven't watched another one he didn't direct, The Front. Have you, guys?
Lots of funny lines to quote:
Dick: Allen the world is full of eligible women
Allen: Yeah, but no one like Nancy. I used to lay in bed and watch her sleep. Once in a while she would wake up and catch me doing that. She would let out a scream :rotfl:
Linda: What are you doing with a Champagne
Allen: I used it to cook, to impress a girl. Made Beef Strangone on a pressure cooker
Linda: How did it taste?
Allen: I don't know, its still on the wall :rotfl3:
"You both should marry and move into a hospital / Can I get a coke with nothing on it please"
Trying to seduce Keaton scene. You have the most EYES / She bought that etc. :lol:
One of my favorite moments was towards the end. Anxiety attack. Tries to play with a dog which does not like it, barks at him. Then goes on to pat a couple of people on their shoulder, one of them falls off a bridge :rotfl: :rotfl3:
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Grouch: The Front paarththadhillai
P_R: Marigold - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
I have, Grotch, there's no frontal nudity and it's eminently watchable..
Bad reviews :oops:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_rome_with_love/
Par for the course.
MGM channel :clap:
Tune in 9 PM everyday
Fri - Love and Death
Sat- Annie Hall
Sun- Interiors
Today - A MidSummer Night Sex Comedy
Tomorrow - Hannah and Her Sisters
Wed- September
Thu- Radio Days
Fri - Another Woman
Sat -Crimes and Misdemeanours
Sun - Alice
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Had a chance to watch " Midnight in Paris ". Not very interesting, I should say. Time machine kind of beaten to death story...poor casting.
I was literally longing to see Woody himself as the protagonist. Very simple & short. Adrian Brody as Dali warrants mention.
I simply take it to be Woody's way of paying homage to Hemingway, Stein, Picasso & Dali... that's it.
Woody Allen a Documentary. Thanks to Netflix. Super long at almost 3.5 hours. But I just loved it. Does not go beyond the surface but as someone who is mostly unfamiliar about his life / works it was a superb watch. Lots of interesting interviews from co-stars / directors like Marty / clippings from old interviews / scenes from almost all his films and the man himself talking about his films. Recommended.
Never knew MiP is his biggest money spinner ever :shock:
Btw started watching Sleeper, first 10 minutes is what I could manage :?
rombO naaL kazhichu, To Rome with Love is releasing in my town. 3 bucks a piece ticket. This weekend :smokesmile:
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enna oorunga idhu?
sathyandhEttarlayE adhai vida adhigam aayirumE.
Do post your thoughts (in brief) here.
Theater remmbba sirisu.. Studio 5-layE (theater name correct-aa theriyalai, watched Dev D there) paadhi dhaan irukkum. 12-15 rows X 12-15 seats.Quote:
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But its the only theater which plays off-beat films and foreign films. Niche audience-nu solluvaaingaLE :-) :-) Anyay its around 6.50 for matinees and 9 bucks for evening / night shows in other good cinemas..
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Just for jatti
When you post in red, I expect to see -edited- , -deleted-, -warning- and -banned-
So don't scare me :lol2:
thats PRs split personality posting... but not as bold as yours..
http://p.twimg.com/AzyzILZCEAEpYPm.jpg
You are harbouring some misconception regarding all this. He's a misanthrope. I'm just socially awkward. He's the right to my left, and yet he wants to be in red. I don't like/want him here anymore than you do.
Maybe hub should have read 'janangal thevai jadangal aLla' in terms and agreement to free us all, from that guy.
Parallel universe, string theory...
I'd not bore you, K_G. But how did you paste the screenshot of the very film that I intuitively bring up in another thread. I swear I am entirely unaware of this!
But now I see you're doing your homework on C-G.
And it's not entirely unexpected to see you paste it from a faux-commie film. A commie film that seems to make peace and have a resolution, with the system well aligned, Lemmon's problematic statement in the Airport of living in a 'fair country'. So in turn, you are endorsing the very conceited hypocritical moves that you (& Zizek) desist! The whole 'investigative'/'procedural' genre is trapped, and always fighting hard to be bereft of this. You should know this.
Saw To Rome with Love. Nice turnout actually. The average age of the audience was 65+, save for us there weren't even one single person without white hair. In fact we saw so many people in their 80s struggling to even walk :lol:
Anyway remmbba sumaar. 4 stories. Benigni's story was lame. yEng italian couple on their honeymoon, save for some one-liners by cruz very boring. Allen's story started with a bang but the wackiness worked against it. The shower songs were laborious beyond a point. The jokes in the later part were juvenile too. The American trio story is the best of all. Ellen Page, very nice. Disappointed.
It's important though to put this into context. Lemmon's character is actually a father of Christian Science in the film. There's a complex mapping being made, dialectically, from dual perspective of Sissy Spacek, and Lemmon. I am 'right', even when I am left.Quote:
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hope there's no vested interest.
Most of the Chennaiites would have read this. For those who haven't
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazin...cle3665604.ece
To be read as, I am straight, even when I am gayQuote:
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Hope you'd slept well after that..
Long live the imbecili :clap:
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Nalla than irunduchu..Same same but still enjoyable. Maybe better than whatever works. Didn't sleep off like i did in his last venture :-P
I was expecting it to be only 'You will meet a dall dark stranger' range.
And I knew it will surely better than the disaster that was his last acting outing - Scoop.
Turned out to be even better than Whatever Works. In fact I'd say this was nearly as good as 'Anything Else' (which has become a kinda favourite of mine).
Ricci:Page::Allen:Baldwin
To that add a dash of 'Celebrity' and Allen-fiction style absurdity.
The timeline of the parallel stories is totally totally screwed-up and Allen doesn't care :lol:
Should it survive till the coming weekend, I might watch..
OhO, idhai vidavum mokkai padamellaam eduthirukkaaRaa indhaaL?!
And this better than midnightimbaris? Yougottabekidding :twisted:
Saw Broadway Danny Rose - not bad, but not good either. Certainly better than rome at least.
BDR'lam arpudham-nga..
Rangar review pOttirukkaar:
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/...-love-3465578/
Err...mokkai padam eduththirukkaar.Quote:
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idhai 'mokkai' enRu suggest seivadhai kaNdikkiREn.
Yaar sonnadhu?Quote:
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As of now I am reserving judgement. MiP was lovely in its own way. Comfare paNNa vENdaamnu dhaan mention paNNavE illai
I may watch it again this weekend.
Formaldehyde ellAm ippo ninaichAlum chippu peerikittu varudhu
Can we also agree Bdr is WA's best performance
Haven't watched it. He's a limited actor. ennaththa best, ennaththa performance.
Someone in brangan's space was complaining about the repetitive themes, ideas, moments. naNbar B(K) kooda appadi solluvaar.
True. But that's not a complaint for me.
Baldwin as the 'wiser' counsel is comparable to Woody's in the severely underrated 'Anything Else'. In fact the Page-Eisenberg track had many parts which felt comparable to the initial phases in the Christina Ricci- Jason Biggs relationship in 'Anything Else'.
The theme of 'famous for being famous' in the Benigni track was elaborated much earlier in Celebrity with the selfsame Judy Davis.Of course, he has changed the tone completely here to suit Benigni (or picked Benigni to suit the role) and the effect is excellent.
The shower-singing is the kind of absurdity that we see in his prose - delightful to see it on screen.
Brangan invokes Stardust Memories - which indeed is a great film. But he had kinda made the same film again even more flippantly and less subtly (although arguably no less poignantly)when he made 'Deconstructing Harry'. For all its segues into his stories, the central theme was still 'an artist going to a function that is honoring him and is constantly assessing his life, which is in disarray'.
(Of course this itself is his take on Bergman's Wild Strawberries'nu @kid-glova maadhiri periyavanga sollakkELvi)
In DH, the focus is on the creativity and how life feeds it (and is therefore bound to be ruined). "Black magician who turns others' misery into gold" as Judy Davis puts in the wonderful opening scene. In SM, the last moment directs attention to the evanescent beauty of a 'moment' in life, which one captures and cherishes on revisit. OTOH in DH, he is accompanied by his characters and concludes (happily and sadly!) that he realizes he 'can't function in real life but only in art'. It is the same but it is resaid because it is another take of it!
And he even kinda broke it down (possibly for the ppl who complain) "All people know the same truth: our lives consist of how we choose to distort it". So he IS making multiple distortions.
Heck, the provincial couple returning from Rome (the audience knowing more about them than they know about each other) is reminiscent of so many movies, even Rebecca Hall's ending in VCB.
And the four tracks in TRWL are on their own trip. Heck, there isn't even a 'meanwhile'. One of the tracks is just one day long! One has got absurb surreal stuff happening - Baldwin is reacted to sometimes and invisible most of the times - he doesn't even bother to explain.
And not surreal being part of central-idea like Purple Rose, but kinda surreal happening in a matter-of-fact manner embedded in a plausible, realistic film like - Alice.(Baldwin in that one too!)
I can understand if people called 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger' tired. But this one, naah..
appadiyE..Zurich,Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm-nu kalakku thala!
Bdr - he's off his base and does really well.
P_R, Sid hinted that its better than MiP. I read your post but since I have not seen almost all the movies you compared this with (save for VCB) it did not make sense to me.
Really liked Allen's initial scenes which is well, so typical Allen. And Judy made a very good wife. And saw Allen in almost all the characters (Eisenberg in particular) and I only mean this as a compliment. But I had numerous problems with the film:
- The shower singing, wild/wacky etc., but too long and boring.
- Benigni's story, least imaginative of all. I got the point in a couple of scenes, but thirumba thirumba pEsura nee. And his final outburst to reiterate the same thing, bah. Choosing one of the most abused topics all over the world to make a satire was a mistake.
-Page/Heisenberg, nice. Again typical Woody so it worked well. But the ending was dramatic unlike most Allen romances. And Page wasn't as deep as some of Allen's lead ladies.
-Milli/Cruz story, very ordinary. I mean the 'intention' was good (that so many wild things, things they always wanted to do, the larger than life-ness) but was shoddily executed. And the mistaken identity jokes were very sabbaa for me.
-And since he had 4 stories and even subplots within them, he could not go beyond the surface. Spends very little time (well obviously) investing on the characters.
More importantly it did not even work as a comedy. I did LOL at a few places but overall it was a crushing bore.
On BDR, yes Allen was terrific. I usually don't find faults with his acting at all. He is limited / one-dimensional but does very well. I thought Farrow's character was mediocre. I mean you don't see the usual complexities associated with Allen's female characters. And her turning away from Lou and turning into Allen was kind of contrived. And Allen was the only normal/sane/good person in the entire film which was kind of uninteresting for me. But thinking of it, it was celebration of a 'loser' which was neatly done. Though there were some jokes, the usual Allen wit, the intelligent humour was missing I thought. But yeah, certainly a film which I won't hesitate to revisit.
No tensan :lol: Enaku dhan othu varala.. mel ottama patha nalla irukura madhiri thonudhu but it was very slow and sleep inducing for me :-P. Maybe should give a revisitQuote:
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