Scribbles and Ramblings

I was surprized to learn from the Guardian blogs last week that The Dark Knight was now #1 in the imdb Top 250 film list. I guess I had st...

There was a good article in the Sunday NY times about the disappearance of hutongs , or the narrow alley-ways, in Beijing. In tracing the hi...

Marriages are a pretty complicated affair. The decision to spend one's life with another person can be quite a soul searching experience...

When Simon Kuper's excellent book Football against the Enemy hit bookstores more than a decade ago, there wasn't any market for boo...

Final ratings of all the 17 films seen. Ratings out of 10 : Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati): 10 Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Mal...

A dark open ended alley with a green garbage dumpster half-way through. On the streets on either side of the alley, people wander by en rou...

It was hard to resist. A spy film with Parker Posey in a long black trench coat? Too good to pass up! But who was Hal Hartley and why ha...

A few weeks ago, the Guardian’s Paul Julian Smith took a bizarre stand with his article titled The curse of Almodovar . This is how he sta...

Even though I had heard of him, until recently I had not seen a single film from Raoul Ruiz. Of the almost 100 films he has directed, the o...

The newest "fresh love story" from Bollywood was released on Friday -- Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (Whether you know it or not). Aamir K...

And that is Bollywood in a nutshell. If Hollywood has its summer blockbusters, then Bollywood won't be the same without its big banner f...

History will show that on July 3, 2008 the French Soccer Federation decided that they were more than happy with keeping their national socce...

Question: What do the films Day Night Day Night , The Terrorist and Dil Se have in common? Answer: All three have female leads who are o...

If the papers can repeat like a broken record, then so can I. Two weeks ago, I posted a link to a NY Times article which as usual blamed t...

Sunday, June 29, 2008: Germany 0 - 1 Spain(Torres 33rd minute) It was not a great final but Spain did enough to squeak by a completely inep...