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Readers Write In #678: The Messiah Among the Sands

March 18, 2024

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By Pranav Madathil ‘Dune’, ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’, ‘Khaleja’, and prophetic protagonist problems SPOILERS AHEAD When Stilgar, played by an almost unrecognizable Javier Bardem, first whispered to himself that the young Paul Atreides was ‘lisan-al-gaib’ – the outworlder fated to redeem not only his people (the Fremen) but his whole planet (Arrakis/ Dune), I was overcome by […]

Sajin Shrijith’s review of the Netflix series ‘The Gentlemen’: Guy Ritchie and team deliver the goods in an immensely entertaining gangster saga

March 12, 2024

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‘The Gentlemen’ is essentially a gangster drama with the sensibility of a Victorian period drama. I’m hoping there will be a second season. Any fan of Guy Ritchie knows how much he loves his characters. He is one of the few filmmakers with a gift for making even his minor characters memorable, regardless of screen […]

Oscar 2024… discuss!

March 8, 2024

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Sajin Shrijith’s review of Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune: Part Two’: This magnificent, spectacle-laden sequel fares better despite minor shortcomings

March 2, 2024

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The filmmaker overcomes the mammoth challenge of making us aware of the intricacies and minutiae of Dune’s immense world-building and focusing on its characters simultaneously. It’s a cause for much joy when a filmmaker known for his penchant for science fiction offers visual callbacks to iconic films in the genre in the opening moments of […]

Berlinale 2024, Post #17: Interview: Subarna Dash (‘The Girl Who Lived in the Loo’)

February 24, 2024

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Berlinale 2024, Post #15: Interview: David Hinton-Thelma Schoonmaker (‘Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger’)

February 23, 2024

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Readers Write In #652: Drowned in relational conflict, ‘Maestro’ doesn’t quite soar masterfully to a crescendo

December 25, 2023

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By Madan Mohan With Maestro, the Netflix movie on the late, great Leonard Bernstein, out now, Youtube was lately bombarding me with videos of the man in action.  Watching him make renowned tenor Jose Carreras sweat reminded me of a music maestro closer home.  That and the sheer difficulty of keeping time on Something’s Coming (seriously, check it […]

MAMI 2023, IFFK 2023: Prasanna Vithanage’s exquisitely realised ‘Paradise’ is a story about how every story has various versions

December 6, 2023

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The film, set in Sri Lanka, stars Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran. The gifted director, as always, leaves enough room for ambiguity, and every viewer will come away with their versions.  It’s 2022. Sri Lanka has declared bankruptcy, the people are up in arms (sometimes literally so), and this is when an Indian couple decides to […]

Bitty Ruminations 99 – David Fincher’s ‘The Killer’

December 3, 2023

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SPOILERS AHEAD The first time I saw the film, I liked it — especially the long setup to the first “kill”, and the extraordinary sequence with Tilda Swinton. The second time I saw the film, I loved it from start to finish. The precision of filmmaking — even the glide between two cars at a […]

Bitty Ruminations 96 – Killers of the Flower Moon

October 30, 2023

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SPOILERS AHEAD Right from the ultra-dramatic — yet, ultra-muted — opening, I was hooked, hooked, hooked. We see hands, then we see a body, then we see that a ritual is in progress. Martin Scorsese prioritises the Indians in this story right away, and the staging after that is so “classic”, I was practically squirming […]

Readers Write In #637: In Leo, Vijay roars but LCU purrs

October 30, 2023

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By Krishnaraj Sambath What worked for me: What was on the fence: What didn’t work for me: Why, I think, Vikram worked as and in LCU:

Readers Write In #636: Leo vs A History of Violence: Picture Yourself

October 29, 2023

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By VS Shyam An official adaptation of the History of Violence (HoV). That’s what is being circulatedacross. Even the ‘picture yourself’ serial killer story that the protagonist says in the trailer islifted straight up from the introduction of History of Violence comic. On a surface story level,Leo did remain true to its predecessor. A man […]

Readers Write In #630: Thoughts on ‘Oppenheimer’

September 24, 2023

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By Siva Soorya I watched Oppenheimer when it came out but only now had the time to write some thoughts about it. It is unfortunate that despite the three hour runtime, the movie never really delved into the psyche behind Oppenheimer (something which Lincoln does marvellously well) and we never really feel the weight or emotional guilt […]

Readers Write In #624: A nuclear physicist and a rocket scientist walk into a bar…

August 27, 2023

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By Karthik Amarnath Ok, so let’s play a guessing game. Name this filmmaker, born in summer 1970, whose debut film released in the US in 1997. Too little info? Ok, here’s another clue. His most recent film was a biopic of a scientist, who is shown to be at Princeton University early in the film. Getting warm, are […]

Readers Write In #623: The void and the whale

August 20, 2023

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By Karthik Amarnath For a variety of reasons, I had avoided watching Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”, which stars Brendan Fraser as a morbidly obese English teacher. For one, it had taken me the better part of two decades to get over teenage fat-shaming, and I wasn’t ready to let a film dig into those scars. Especially […]

Readers Write In #614: The Barbie movie – plastic, and fantastic with some toxic (masculinity)

August 7, 2023

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By Aparna Namboodiripad (who comments here as tonks) Barbie starts with an emotionally charged scene where little girls smash their baby dolls to pieces to replace them with adult Barbie dolls. Earlier, dolls were infants and girls were expected to mother them, but Barbie revolutionised girls to see themselves in their dolls – or an […]

Readers Write In #608: Oppenheimer – Dancing in raindrops

July 27, 2023

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By Karthik Iyer If nothing else, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has changed the way I look at raindrops. There are only two shots of them in the film: one at the beginning and one at the end. Everything that happens in between changed my perspective. Nolan gave Cillain Murphy, who plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, one note about how […]

Christopher Nolan tries a form (i.e., his form) of minimalism in ‘Oppenheimer’, and the results are mixed

July 21, 2023

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Spoilers ahead… This is a solid, old-school biopic – but it’s more dutiful than dazzling, more admirable than awe-inspiring. When Christopher Nolan announced a biopic, of all things, I was curious. It’s like Hitchcock making a Fred Astaire musical. It’s like Spielberg making Saw. It’s like Scorsese making a screwball comedy or a Western. There’s […]

Readers Write In #578: Succession – A Saga of Kendall and Logan

May 23, 2023

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By Kartik Iyer The things that stand out about Brian Cox, who plays the character of Logan Roy in Succession, are his nose, jaws, and eyes. The jaws get a helping from the white-grey beard, but his nose and eyes appear as they are: stark, sharp, and cold. Logan has the capacity to unnerve people with […]

Interview: Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Richard Madden (Citadel…)

April 18, 2023

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