Scribbles and Ramblings

1) What’s Cooking (2000 movie, directed by Gurindher Chadha): Rating a solid 8/10 Thanksgiving movies are a genre in themselves but this one...

1) Closer (Directed by Mike Nichols, with a brilliant screenplay by Patrick Marber): Rating 9/10 This is a marvelous movie. The beauty of th...

1) Sin City (Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller). Hmm. On one side are critics calling this the best movie of the year, best comi...

1) Open Water: Rating – Worth a look but overall, ok This Independent movie made a splash last year at Sundance and the critics. It is a sim...

1) Constantine: Rating Very poor Comic book movies are always hard to make. Mostly, they translate into action packed movies which are tras...

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 ...