Around the same time that Alain Resnais portrayed the innovative use of flashbacks in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Jean-Luc Godard discovered jump cuts with Breathless. I haven’t watched Breathless, but his Crazy Pete serves as a good enough example for understanding jump cuts. Other than that nugget there is not much I can write about the [...]
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PIFF 2010: What do you think about Elly?
Asghar Farhadi’s Darbareye Elly opens with a small group of friends starting on a reunion vacation along with their families and a guest Elly. Even those who are not friends are friendly. But the truth is, even the close friends are only friendly acquaintances now just the way most once-close relationships transform from friendships to [...]
Avatar is no Star Wars
I read and heard a lot of superlatives about James Cameron’s Avatar in the last two months. Some from well-known critics and mostly from the gen-pop — “awesome”. I knew very little about the story itself and that may have helped ground my expectations closer to Earth than Pandora. I waited for the opportunity, and [...]
Still Life the Game
I rarely play PC games. More than the epic-scale strategy games and frag-anything-that-moves games, I prefer games with few characters and a storyline. Max Payne was the first such game that I played and it remains the favorite. I enjoyed the dramatic shoot-while-jumping moves, loved using the clean weapons, had my heart broken by Mona [...]
ఇందిరమ్మ ఇంటిపేరు కాదుర గాంధి
Despite Sirivennela’s signature lyricality and SPB’s towering voice, I was disappointed by the song.
One. I think music directors should experiment with other voices for such songs. While his voice adds more weight, SPB’s intonation has become overly familiar and I fail to feel a pleasant surprise, or a did-you-hear-that jolt like in this particular case.
Two. [...]