Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Double Indemnity [1944]

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When I decided to watch Double Indemnity , a movie directed by Billy Wilder, adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandl...
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Saturday, 23 August 2008

Gone Baby Gone [2007]

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I’m really puzzled as to what Ben Affleck loves more – his hometown Boston or the crave to surprise us. We all agree he is a sub-average ac...
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Friday, 22 August 2008

Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Stadten) [1974]

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Though not as universally renowned or recognized as Paris, Texas or Kings of the Road , Alice in the Cities is, nonetheless, one of the ...
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Thursday, 21 August 2008

The Orphanage (El Orphanto) [2007]

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Directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage is an assured venture in the oft-made genre of haunted house ta...
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Monday, 18 August 2008

I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK [2007]

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Maverick Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook’s latest film and his first since he completed his vaunted Vengeance Trilogy with the aesthetic Sympa...
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Good Will Hunting [1997]

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Gus Van Sant’s first foray into a lesser offbeat movie is as engrossing and stimulating as his previous or subsequent (more critically accla...
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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Aranyer Din Ratri (Days & Nights in the Forest) [1970]

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Often considered among Ray’s finest films, Aranyer Din Ratri is a tour de force whose character driven analysis of urbanization, human beh...
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Monday, 4 August 2008

Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt) [1998]

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Once in a while one gets to watch a movie that is so unique in its content and so bold in its outlook that it stuns the senses out of the co...
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Saturday, 2 August 2008

The Godfather [1972]

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The Godfather didn't just revolutionize the gangster genre, it literally became the face of American cinema overnight. Of course, it a...
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Thursday, 31 July 2008

Romeo is Bleeding [1994]

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Romeo is Bleeding is an exceedingly violent, over-stylized and distressing modern day noir, starring Gary Oldman, a respected though underr...
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Monday, 28 July 2008

Five Easy Pieces [1970]

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Five Easy Pieces is in many ways a comparatively lesser hallowed and more sedate version of Easy Rider . Like the latter, this wonderful ro...
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Saturday, 26 July 2008

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance [2002]

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Park Chan-Wook’s acclaimed Vengeance Trilogy got a fabulous kick-start by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance . The movie essentially comprises of ...
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Thursday, 24 July 2008

Following [1998]

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Filmed using 16-mm camera with grainy black-and-white films, only on weekends and on a tight financial leash, Following would be expected to...
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Little Miss Sunshine [2006]

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Just when you thought you are being served with yet another hackneyed tale of the American Dream gone awry, one is served with Little Miss S...
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Sunday, 20 July 2008

Trainspotting [1996]

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One of the most brutally honest depictions of drug addiction and an incredible movie by any standards, Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting is as un...
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Friday, 18 July 2008

Easy Rider [1969]

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Naming one movie that managed to vividly capture the nuances, the rebelliousness, the freedom, the anti-establishmentarianism, the counter ...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chin-jeol-han Geum-ja-ssi) [2005]

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Park Chan-Wook’s final chapter of his renowned “ Vengeance Trilogy ”, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is a quirky, offbeat and absolutely irres...
Sunday, 13 July 2008

Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother Too) [2001]

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Before his foray to America and a good half a decade before he made the remarkable psychological thriller Children of Men , Mexican filmmake...
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The Conversation [1974]

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Sandwiched between two of America ’s most iconic movies – The Godfather and its equally famous sequel The Godfather Part II , Francis Ford...
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Saturday, 12 July 2008

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (New Cinema Paradise) [1988]

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A beautifully composed film, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso is Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving and evocative homage to the world of ci...
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