Chaudhvin Ka Chand is among the purest of Hindi movies I have seen, in terms of the language. Even though the movie opened with English titles, ladies before gentlemen, the only English words heard throughout were a few utterances of ‘municipality’, ‘doctor’, ‘inspector’, ‘judge’. There have been very many triangular love stories based on the [...]
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My Unique Movie Watching Experience
The first time I heard about The Man From Earth was a few months ago. The movie is an hour-long discussion of sorts that ensues when a pedagogue presents to his colleagues the hypothesis of a man who has been alive for the past 14000 years. We can imagine how this could go on. My [...]
Terminator Series Salvaged
I was expecting McG’s Terminator Salvation to wind up the Terminator series, an entirely unoriginal and irrational expectation. Little did I know to interpret the title literally: “Terminator Salvation” means “a means of preserving Terminator (series)”. Go lookup the dictionary. In The Terminator (1984) a T-800 model was sent from the future to kill Sarah [...]
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 [...]