Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Babí léto (Autumn Spring)

This is the first time I feel like writing about a movie what I haven't seen completely...yes, so far its that spectacular...I am sure its going to be in my 10/10 list, but let's just wait and see...will see it shortly...

its a czech movie directed by Vladimir Michalek: so far I have seen deep friendship between two elderly guys; deep love between the husband and wife, even the judge can figure out the love in court of divorce..more later...

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Mindwalk by Capra

Its written by Fritjof Capra and directed by Brent Capra (his brother). Liv Ulman had an outstanding performance in this movie, I am going to watch it again and write a review soon on this. This is 10/10 in my list of movies.

Caro diario: My Diary

I will write a complete review someday...
Its a fantastic Italian movie, these are the movies for which I keep looking for new type of italian movies...

Lola rennt: Run Lola, Run

What a movie!
I haven't seen a movie on the same idea. Lola has to bring some cache for her boyfriend...this movie shows how things could be different with minor set of changes in events..is it an experiment with chaos theory? I need to think it through before writing a review based on that line...

will write soon...surely a 10/10 movie

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Ruby in Paradise: Sundance movie

What a performance by Ashle Judd in "Ruby in Paradise: First I saw in Sundance Film Festival and afterwards watched it many more times. Ruby, a single girl searching for meaning in life..why are people so busy? behave so crazy? going after what? This movie is about her search for something which is unclear to her (and to me too)...

A movie one will definitely like when they are in the same boat as Ruby or traveresed the same path.

Yi ge dou bu neng shao: Not One Less

A temporary school teacher in a chineese village needs to keep all the students of the class engaged, but one student left the school and went to city. The temporary teacher goes to city in seach of the student..Will she find the student? Will she be able to keep her temporary job? Will she find something else?
This search is very important in this movie, searching for something that we may not do normally...
I recomend watching the movie for serious movie watchers..

Monday, November 14, 2005

Vivre sa vie by Godard

Godard's best work! will write a review soon..

La Vita è bella : Life is beautiful

...will write shortly...

IL postino: The Postman

This is the movie I have seen maximum number of times in a movie hall..probably the only Italian movie I have seen running in USA movie halls for years (Life is beautiful too ran for long time). IL Postino is a very special movie in the way that character of Pablo Neruda is one of my favourite poet present in this movie, but he is not the hero of movie. The postman is truely the hero...
...more later...

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Train de vie (Train of Life)

..pending review...

Un divan à New York by Akerman

Chantal Akerman is my favourite director, however this one is not best of her kind..I will recomend "Night and day" before seeing this movie...

Friday, November 11, 2005

Stanno tutti bene (Every body is fine)

Stanno tutti bene means Every body is fine is a wonderful movie by Tornatore...this is type of Italian movie I like a lot..must get a 10/10..will write a review soon.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Bacheha-Ye aseman: Majid Majidi

Simple but different


This is a simple but an excellent movie. Initially I thought just another of those "showing poor" style movie started. But as things go ahead, it was different. Ali lost his sister Zahra's shoes and the movie was a struggle to show that Ali wants to get back those shoes somehow.It was just not a struggle to get back shoes, but get back on our true life. If you love simplicity and want to get back on fundamentals of life, this is the movie.During this time I have seen a series of Iranian movies and quite impressed with the quality of the movies; I had no idea about the life of common people in Iran, the simplicity in their thoughts and the type of music, food, arts, beauty they like. These movies are really educating to me.

Rendez-vous de Paris, Les by Rohmer

...will write a review sometime....

Koyla

Friendship between a 5 year old russian boy and an elderly person is shown beautifully in this Czechoslovakian movie...I will surely write a review since this is 10/10 movie in my list

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Reds by Warren Betty

...will write someday....I liked the movie..

Gabbeh

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is my favourite director , he makes movies of very different kind, based on simplicity, it appears oversimplification to some people...

I must write reviews of all his movies someday...wait...will see that soon..

La Condanna : The conviction

I liked it very much, I always like to see this kind of movies, the type of analysis it presents, what's forceful and what's intentional...

..will write a review someday..

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Mari de la coiffeuse, Le: HairDresser's Husband

Another classical 10/10 type french movie of my liking; this is the typical surreal type french movie I like most. The combination of music with innovative dance, the feeling of a person to become a successful hairdresser and love someone in the same profession is very unique. Finding uniqueness among simple people with very simple desire is the outstanding work I liked!
....more later...

Leila

Another worth seeing Iranian movie by Mehjui, not like those outstanding movies of Mohsen , but still worth seeing...

Will write a review someday..

Monday, November 07, 2005

Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

My best pickup of Tarkovsky. The picture, the still photography, the slow movements..one has to watch several times to understand what's going on...10/10 in my list

Masculin, féminin: by Godard

Not the best of Godard, so will take longer time to write, but will write it anyway, since I liked the work