Miranda Priestly: This… ‘stuff’? Oh… ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
PIFF Movie Review: Drifting Clouds
Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) is the movie that introduced me to Aki Kaurismäki’s world, a world unlike any other. Before the movie, PIFF 2009 screened his ten-minute long short movie Dogs Have No Hell as a primer. I learnt that the acting would be minimal, humor deadpan, reel old, and the setting Helsinki. I [...]
PIFF Movie Review: Meurtrières
After Die Fälscher and Fame Chimica that morning, Patrick Grandperret’s Meurtrières was the third movie that used the same screenplay technique. The opening is followed by a movie-long flashback which leads to the opening. I thought it worked best in Meurtrières. Die Fälscher would have been no worse without that opening, Fame Chimica would have [...]
ఒరే పిచ్చి సన్నాసి
The first thing that came to my mind on hearing about last week’s various train-torching incidents is the following song. చిత్రం: బాపు-రమణ గారి మనవూరి పాండవులు రాసినది: కొసరాజు కూర్చినది: కె వి మహదెవన్ పాడినది: ఎస్ పి బాలసుబ్రహ్మణ్యం ఒరే పిచ్చి సన్నాసి ఒరే పిరికి సన్నాసి ఇలా చూడు ఇలా చూడు ఇటుకేసి వున్నవూరు కన్నతల్లి ఒరే ఒరే మరవకురా నమ్ముకున్న సొంతవూరు వెన్నులొన పొడవకురా [...]
Sick of the Specially-abled
I think Eenadu TV’s Black is a wonderful idea. Nothing like a sympathy wave to milk the cash cows and ride the critic bulls. It would work wonders even in the recession-ridden countries of the world. Can anyone tell me what is so special about a singing competition for blind people? Me me me me! [...]