Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Breaking the Waves [1996]

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Breaking the Waves wasn’t just one of Danish master (and I daresay, enfant terrible) Lars von Trier’s greatest efforts, it was also one o...
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Saturday, 25 July 2009

My 50 Favourite Movies

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Right from childhood we have this crazy, fun knack of making lists. And so it was a really fun and interesting proposition when Iain Scott, ...
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Friday, 24 July 2009

Videodrome [1983]

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Even long before he went ‘mainstream’ with the masterly A History of Violence and its engaging quasi-sequel Eastern Promises , David Cron...
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Monday, 20 July 2009

Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) [1965]

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Contemporary Bengali humorist, satirist, songwriter and cinephile Chandril Bhattacharya composed a tribute song on Jean-Luc Godard a few ye...
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Saturday, 18 July 2009

Funny Games [1997]

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Funny Games might not be Austrian director Michael Haneke’s best movie, but it sure as hell is the one he will be remembered by. The skelet...
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Friday, 17 July 2009

Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo) [1957]

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Legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood is often considered as the greatest cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare. The ...
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Monday, 13 July 2009

Casino [1995]

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While speaking of Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, Casino is often brushed aside with the usual “good, but not great” logic; the reason for that, ...
Sunday, 12 July 2009

Bloody Sunday [2002]

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Bloody Sunday might not be a great work of art per se, but believe me, it’ll get your blood boiling. On January 30, 1972 – a day that will ...
Friday, 10 July 2009

L’Avventura (The Adventure) [1960]

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Watching a universally renowned movie like L’Avventura –Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking masterpiece – can sometime...
Monday, 6 July 2009

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [2007]

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Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was tailor-made to be a typically maudlin ‘triumph of human spirit over gargantuan adve...
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