(This is not a movie review, but my impressions of The American.)
George Clooney’s The American opens in theatres tomorrow. This is a different kind of a film with sparse dialogs, hauntingly beautiful images accompanied by long stretches of silence and ambient sounds where the background score is used in a sparse and elegant way. That is it: [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 31st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Hollywood Films, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 16th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Hollywood Films, People, Video, YouTube Videos
“I am the most skilled extractor,” says Leonardo DiCaprio in Chris Nolan’s Inception . “You taught me to navigate people’s mind,” DiCaprio says to Michael Caine, his mentor and father-in-law in the film. “The truth is it is Nolan who is the skilled extractor and navigator. It is Nolan who got the best out of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 3rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video
Admit it, you paused for a minute when you read “storys” instead of stories when you saw the title I Hate Love Storys. Why was “Storys” spelt/spelled that way? Was there a missing apostrophe or did someone make a typo when registering the title of the film? Or, maybe it was a deliberate ploy to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, People, Video
I was really looking forward to watching M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. I was curious to see how Shyamalan translates this hugely popular Nickelodeon series into a movie. I was also curious to see The Last Airbender in 3D since that was not in the original plan. You see the success of James Cameron’s [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, YouTube Videos
It was the laughter that caught my attention. Nay, it was the people howling with laughter that caught my attention and had me from the start. You see I was late & therefore missed the first 1o minutes of Grown Ups. That laughter was like a chorus from the audience and continued for the next [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Today is Billy Wilder’s birthday. If Wilder’s name rings a bell it is probably because you may have seen one of his well-crafted movies. A writer, director and producer Wilder made some of the most memorable movies in Hollywood and along the way collected a clutch of Oscars. Wilder was an influential figure and an invisible mentor [...]