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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Foreign Movie Galore..oh and two Canadian ones as well..

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1) Coup De Torchon (1981 movie directed by Bertrand Tavernier): Rating 8/10 The English title of this interesting French movie is ‘Clean Sla...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Dogville takes a bite

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1) Dogville (directed by Lars Von Trier): Rating 8.5/10 What a strange movie Dogville is! First off the three hour long movie is shot on a s...
Saturday, July 09, 2005

Craziness in July

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1) Crash (directed by Paul Haggis): Rating 10/10 Either you like this movie or despise it. But one can’t discount director and writer Paul H...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

Singing in July

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1) Parineeta (directed by Pradeep Sarkar): Rating 8/10 What does one do with the songs? With the exception of Sarfarosh (1999), I can’t conc...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

End of June viewings

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Near the end of month, I came across quite a few Shaw Brothers movies. Yes it was a time to return to those classics which have shaped moder...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

The story starts again and that is a good thing.

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Two very different movies turned out to be gems – one a Hollywood summer movie, and the other a small budget Canadian flick. 1) Batman Begin...
Sunday, June 19, 2005

La Cinema: Film festivals and Assorted flicks

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The annual Waterton French Film festival had an interesting line up. On tap was Tony Gatlif’s excellent Exiles, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very ...
Friday, June 10, 2005

International Flair

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1) The Sea Inside (directed by Alejandro Amenabar): Rating 8/10 No matter what movie Amenabar makes in the future, I will duly watch his wor...
Monday, June 06, 2005

June happennings

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Movies and Documentaries: Before I get to the few documentaries I have recently seen, let’s get some of the commercial flicks out of the way...
Thursday, June 02, 2005

Real Cinema

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It has been a while since my last update and I have seen some good flicks in the last few weeks. But I want to get the commercial movies out...
Friday, May 13, 2005

May showings

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Comic books galore: May started out with watching some overdue comic book movies. 1) Blade 3: Rating 4/10 I really enjoyed the first Blade m...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

End of April notes

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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...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Mid April Showings

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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...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

April Thrills

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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...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

End of March Notes

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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...