tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-202181822012-01-17T14:26:00.802-08:00<i>This blog is a place for me to scribble down my thoughts on the movies I have watched. Consider this as a dialogue zone and contribute your thoughts to it.</i>Ground Zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01592213309781016010noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20218182.post-4748226820211689202007-01-08T09:03:00.000-08:002007-06-28T02:23:04.802-07:00

A few weeks back I happened to attend a lecture on ‘Popular Cinema in the Indiancontext’. For a south Indian, the meaning of Popular Cinema will be clearer than the popular cinema-goer of the North. Rajnikant has only recently been listed as the second most paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan. The image of popular cinema is the same anywhere in India. People swarming the cinema halls, high rate

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Shiva and Neha MishraSharan and Neha Mishra

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No Motive...Story 1: ActorCharactersPlay DirectorDirector’s assistant (f)ACTORDrunkardCharacters inside Play-within-playActors – Shiva, Vella, NaganActress(f)Musicians – Violinist, Drummer, Pianist.Synopsis of the filmA drama rehearsal forms the immediate context of the story. A drama troupe is trying to rehearse some scenes of their play which is structurally inspired from Anton Chekov’s famous

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What is special about Marco Tullio Giordana's "I Cento Passi"?Cento Passi (one hundred steps) is a film which depicts the notoreity of Mafia, an evil of Italia Meridionale (South Italy). While introducing we foreigners to Elementi di Civiltà of Italian life, our professor took great efforts to screen this movie for us. Peppino Impastato, a real character in history, fought against the mafia in

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No Motive... (Col/English-Hindi/43 min/India/2005)Dir: RGThis film was made as part of a M.Phil. (Master of Philosophy) course on "Popular Culture." The central theme of the film is 'death and the Other.' The fulfilment of one's death is only characterised by the 'being' of the Other. This is how your individual self is constituted in language. Death is always your own impossibility of dying but

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While watching movies I have always tried to get out of the influences of narrative sequencing of stories. For this reason, I have always loved those visual presentations which go out of the framework of narrative story telling. We have witnessed many attempts in films along this direction. Abbas Kiarostami's earthquake trilogy as well as his 'Close-UP', for example, has tried to intertwine the

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Here is a discussion between Jean Luc-Nancy and Kiarostami. You may download the discussion by clicking hereIf you're familiar with Kiarostami films, it will make your reading more meaningful.Close-UpPierre Goes Wild On extreme introspective moments I used to recall a dialogue from Kiarostami's Close Up where the person who was caught, trialed and later acquitted by court for impersonating the

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Padre Padrone depicts a shepherd boy's incessant struggle for gaining education. What I wanted to discuss here is just one symbol from the movie. I'm trying to interpret it my own way. In the movie this particular symbol appears a handful of times and if I'm right, it is also the final shot in the movie. Gavino, the protagonist, has a habit of swinging the upper half of his body back and forth

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It was before CD revolution. We had to update, every now and then, the information on the venues of foreign language movie screenings in the city. It was a method to keep ourselves busy. These films also offered us something to talk about always.Here are the addresses of some venues which I frequently visit in Delhi.French moviesAlliance Francaise,72, Lodhi Estate.Who is permitted?: One who has

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A walk typical to a postman in a countryside, this is what attracted me the most about Troisi in and as Il Postino. I don't exactly remember the shot. But it is something like the postman going uphill, pulling along his bicycle, where the poet was putting up. But I was sad to hear that this uphill journey cost him fatally, to his death on the very next day of filming.

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L’Italia è famosa per il cinema. In questo paese ci sono stati molti registi che hanno fatto molti film classici. Il mio progetto di viaggio in Italia comprende cinque-sei luoghi che sono i più importanti per il cinema Mondiale. Io comincerei il mio viaggio da Torino che si trova nel nord-ovest dell’Italia.È la capitale di Piemonte, regione dell’Italia e si trova vicino alle Alpi. Andrei a Torino

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‘Seeing is believing’, the saying might be true a few decades ago. Today when images everywhere have become mere ‘visual commodities’, one can easily doubt the truthfulness of them. It’s true that we have infront of us a whole range of images in various media especially the television, films and the internet. These images range from news to entertainment, from costumes to automobiles. But even as

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Last year in October, I attended the interview for Italian Government Scholarships offered by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India. I had completed two years of language learning. There were quite a good number of candidates who attended the interview, and in my category I had to compete with atleast 30 candidates. When I reached the interview venue at 9 in the

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Io Non Ho Paura – The Music of SurfacesInstead of being psychological, the word ‘paura’ can be better connected with ‘pausa’ which has its roots in Greek paùo (stop). The likeness in the semantic feel of both the words, ‘paura’ and ‘pausa’ is also arguable to an extent: ‘to stop’ and ‘to be afraid’. But it is music, which conceptualize ‘pausa’ in its infinite dimension. In musical terms ‘pausa’

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