Scribbles and Ramblings

June 26, 2007: The Copa America started with Peru beating Uruguay 3-0 and the hosts Venezuela managing a surprise 2-2 tie with Bolivia. It i...

Watching a handful of Bollywood films made for a good break between seeing Eastern European and South American films. It was also interesti...

Part I -- Collapse, Part II -- Immigration and displacement and now Part III starts off with rebuilding.... Democracy and Rebuilding: P...

Sigh. What a friday!! June 22, 2007. The day when a year long rumour was hours from becoming a reality -- Thierry Henry was on the verge of ...

Spies -- Espionage. Men in hats. Trench coats. Secret codes. The chair. Time -- Love. Beauty. Endless cycle. Death. Rebirth. Transformatio...

6 new films with 3 being co-productions. Here are the films in no particular order: One of the major themes of part I of Eastern Europea...

Okay, Danny Ocean does not get knocked up. He simply manages to knock his enemies down, yet again. Ocean's Thirteen (2007, Directed by S...

While juggling the Eastern European Cinema spotlight, I will also have a Copa America film festival to coincide with the 2007 Copa America...

The films, in order of viewing: The beginning What came first -- soccer or cinema? The answer from both a historical and perso...

In the next few weeks I will be undertaking an interesting experiment in studying Eastern European football & cinema. Of course, one ca...

Manderlay (2005, Director Lars von Trier): Rating 7/10 This is the second installement of von Trier's USA Trilogy after 2003's Dogv...

Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch): Rating 8/10 We see hazy images. Then two figures appear but their faces are blurred. They talk in so...

Spider Man 3 (2007, Director Sam Raimi): Rating 5/10 They did it, they finally did it. It took them 3 tries but the studios finally turned ...

It has been over a year since I first shed a spotlight on Taiwanese Cinema . Back then I wanted to focus on Hou Hsiao-hsien & Tsai Ming-...

Colour me Kubrick (2005, Director Brian Cook): Rating 4.5/10 John Malkovich plays Alan Conway, a real life person who went around conning p...