Films From 58 Countries Vying For Oscar Nod [http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2005/10/films_from_58_c.html], and Why Paheli’s better than Black [http://in.rediff.com/movies/2005/sep/27paheli.htm] (as India’s Oscar entry)? Also interesting to read are the Academy Award Statistics…
Colin’s Movie Monologue Page [http://www.whysanity.net/monos/] has hundreds of monologues from popular films, arranged alphabetically.…
Yesterday night, SBS featured a documentary on Charlie Chaplin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin] (1889-1977). Said to be an insight into one of the greatest figures of world cinema, from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert Schickel. It was a fascinating documentary — a great blend of film clips, rare footage…
A few days back I was talking to some friends about coincidence’s in life. How certain events are unexplainable and yet how we deny them. “Coincidently”, later that night, I saw this really intriguing Hindi movie titled “Sau Jhoot, Ek Sach” (100 Lies, 1 Truth). A slow mystery drama,…
25 Must See Bollywood Movies [http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1250837.cms]…
Amol Palekar’s Paheli [http://www.pahelithefilm.com/] has been selected as India’s entry for the 2006 Oscars [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/sep/26paheli.htm]. I watched the movie in theatre a couple of months back. I quite liked it. I won’t say that it was…
Last saturday, I went out with a couple of friends to watch the new bollywood movie “Salaam Namaste [http://www.yashrajfilms.com/]” at Hoyts Cinema in the city. The Indian-origin audience, mainly a large bunch of youngsters, was evident even outside the theatre, and later it was a packed house…
Last weekend, I watched the new hindi movie “Iqbal – The Rampur Express [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453729/]” starring Shreyas Talpade (as Iqbal), Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Shweta Prasad & Kapil Dev (in a special appearence). Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474398/], the movie was what…