Motherhood became the common theme of the movies I watched in the 9th Pune International Film Festival. Among the 15 movies were my first Australian, first Ecuadorian, first Danish and first Russian (talkie) movies. The absence of subtitles for the English movies was refreshing. Overall the movies were better than the previous year’s, both in [...]
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My 2010 in Movies
I don’t track the movies I watch as diligently as I track the books I read. It possibly means that I don’t care as much about what I watch, about how I spend that aspect of my time, watching being more passive than reading. That is alarming. IMDB, Bigflix and a scrap book suggest the [...]
In the Wild Strawberry Patch
Few movies ever get made with old people as protagonists, for old age is an unpleasant and boring subject that we do not like to dwell on. “Happily ever after” is a delusion that obscures the loneliness following the death of a loved one in the arms of the other. “Old age is not a [...]
Bergman’s Kaleidoscopes
I watched Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy during three consecutive nights three weeks ago. I’ve wanted to write about it because I’ve felt that I understood something, yet my understanding is vague enough to elude words. Now I am grappling with words to express a vagueness that I know about. The trilogy has been called different names [...]
Cultures in Conversation – Urban Legends
The May 2010 issue of UTV World Movies Magazine carried an article I wrote comparing Bollywood and Mexican Cinema with urbanization as its underlying motif. I am not very happy with it. I think essays of such kind need a person with greater expertise about the subject matter and with greater skill. My article reads [...]