When I read this week that Sidney Lumet died, I was saddened because it never occurred to me that he would have to stop making movies on one dull day. The first Lumet’s movie that I watched was 12 Angry Men (1957). Instant fanhood. I watched it several times. The least I enjoyed it was when [...]
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PIFF 2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Unreadable American
Interval. The director being a big Sergio Leone fan chose to include a scene from Once Upon a Time in the West, the shocking scene where Frank draws his pistol and slowly takes aim at a child. (The scene that may have inspired a similar scene in Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.) As fun as the homage [...]
Shutter Island Inception
The last two movies of Leonardo DiCaprio center around two classic philosophical views of reality. Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (based on Dennis Lehane’s eponymous novel) uses Kantian a posteriori, that what we know about the world is subject to our perceptions and thus not entirely objective. Christopher Nolan’s Inception builds on Cartesian dream argument, about [...]