Scribbles and Ramblings

1) Japanese Story (Directed by Sue Brooks): This one is hard to judge because it is a movie not made for commercial success. Ofcourse, such...

I am not scared (directed by Gabriele Salvatores, based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti): Rating 10/10 This one is brillaint, touchin...

1) Enigma (directed by Michael Apted) -- Rating 8/10 This is a pretty engaging movie about the English-German Cryptography battle during ...

Back to movie watching! 1) Ocean’s Twelve – Rating 9/10 for Entertainment value, Story (what story?) This was the first Hollywood movie ...

Facing Windows: Rating 7/10 I missed seeing this at the Film festival but a good Italian friend told me this was not such a great movie...

1) Intimate Strangers (Directed by Patrice Leconte, Produced by Alain Sarde): Rating 8/10 This is a classic French movie and has a few si...

1) Carandiru (directed by Hector ) : Rating 10/10 This movie is based on a true story. But as it turns out certain characters were chang...

1) La Belle noiseuse (aka The Beautiful Troublemaker) directed by Jacques Rivette: Rating 7/10 This 1991 French movie is all about Emman...

Well the festival is over. There were quite a few good movies that I saw and I even missed seeing some of the more popular festival movies. ...

The festival has reached its halfway point and what better time to take the night off and recharge for the final four movie packed days. So ...

Collateral (by Michael Mann): Rating either 10/10 or simply 3/10 Ok I admit I am a big fan of Tom Cruise. Despite the negative image of ...

This is a very quick summary of three movies I saw this weekend. 1) Elephant Juice (1999 movie by Sam Miller): Rating 5/10 The movie i...

1) Le Placard (The Closet) by Francis Veber: Rating 10/10 20 minutes into the Closet, I wanted to bet that the director was the same pers...

1) Mystic River (by Clint Eastwood): Rating 10/10. This was a movie loved by the critics & packed with stars -- Sean Penn, Tim Robbins...

1) Memories of Murder (by Joon-ho Bong): Rating a solid 8/10 Memories is based on the real life Serial killings in South Korea (around 19...