Wednesday, July 1, 2009

A great week of movie-ing

Last week had been dull and sultry in bangalore. The monsoons have officialy failed and the Indian cricket team got banished in the carribean. Thank god, there is a DVD lending library near my office which has a decent collection of movies. Here are the few movies worth mentioning (which i saw last week... listed in no particular order)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

Academy awards nominee for Best film and Best Actor of 2008, Just to lose behind Slumdog millionaire. Brad Pitt in his best performance ever. The lead character in the movie undergoes a reverse ageing process wherin he grows younger as years pass by.
Certainly a noteworthy movie for it 'out-of-the-bush' theme and some very good art direction.

1947-Earth:

Second movie in the elements trilogy of Deepa Mehta. Story is set in Lahore during the partition times and shows the real pain of partition atleast in couple of scenes. Solid performances by Aamir Khan and Nandita Das and some good music by none other than the legend - A R Rahman.
If you want to see an off the shelf hindi movie with some real life characters, then here is one.

Seven Pounds:

The same team that worked for 'In Pursuit of happyness' have paired up for this masterpiece, though you cannot avoid drawing parallels with the former. The story becomes very emotional towards the end and is ideally suited for people who have the tear bags overflowing in their eyes. But this sullen looking and slow moving movie suddenly becomes watchable because of one man - Will Smith.

Fight Club:

The second David Fincher movie that I saw in the week (following 'TCCBB') . A movie that remained in my 'to-watch' list for a long time and it surely didnt disappoint my long wait. Brad Pitt again in the lead again with Edward Norton with a psycho realistic storyline. A stylish and trendy screenplay typical of Fincher`s movies stand apart. If you like movies like Memento, you should never miss this one.

The Onion Movie:

Its a 'good-for-nothing' movie and its USP is it being 'good-for-nothing'. In US of A..You can make movies in which you can make racial abuses, unparliamentry abuses on popular people and policies all in the name of 'Satire'. If have a long and stressful day in office and want a laugh without applying your mind, then here is one.

Mystic River:

I always wanted to see this one dark movie from Clint Eastwood. It was his 'Million dollar baby' which I liked most. But preceding that, this Sean Penn starrer set a critical acclaim in box-office.
A movie to watch on late saturday night.

The GodFather:

May be this is the 17th time i was watching this movie. And to tell you the truth, each time I see the movie i understand how movie-making should be.
The one scene where Marlon Brondo talks to Al Pacino (towards the end, where he says someone is going to be traitor) is an epic and should be framed and shown to all those people who aspire to be directors.
GODFATHER - A legend.