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Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Taking a knife to a classic”
Thoughts on Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho,” Gus Van Sant’s remake of ‘Psycho,” and the ruthlessly butchered ‘Psycho’ that’s shown on television. Psycho is widely seen as the progenitor of the modern-day slasher film, yet watching it today, I wonder if that credit shouldn’t actually go to the movie Hitchcock made immediately after – The Birds, where the […]
Death of a way of life
May 5, 2013
The Hindu’s Kerala bureaus have been covering the malnutrition deaths in the tribal villages of Palakkad. Here, Baradwaj Rangan writes about life in one such village In the tribal village of Thekke Kadambara, the air is thick with the odour of goat droppings. The animals are everywhere – inside the houses, in sheds just outside […]
“Soodhu Kavvum”… Crime does pay!
May 4, 2013
From the very beginning, from the minute a lowly MNC employee rolls off his bed in a tiny house whose walls bear a poster of T Rajendar, Nalan Kumarasamy’s Soodhu Kavvum is a demonstration of what’s possible when movies are made for the sheer joy of making movies. There isn’t a single calculated moment, something […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Tamil)
“Ethir Neechal”… Run culture
May 4, 2013
We’ve had many comic stars but, of late, few stars capable of comedy. Sivakarthikeyan looks like he’s getting there – he’s not yet a star, at least in the leading-man sense, but he was the best thing about Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, and in RS Durai Senthilkumar’s Ethir Neechal, where he plays an amiable underachiever […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Tamil)
“Moondru Per Moondru Kadal”… In the mood for love
May 4, 2013
The three couples in SM Vasanth’s Moondru Per Moondru Kadal are Varun (Vemal) and Anjana (Lasini), Guna (Cheran) and Mallika (Muktha Bhanu), and Harris (Arjun) and Divya (Surveen Chawla) – and the film depicts their knotty love stories over three landscapes: the sea, the hills, and the flat terrains of a city. The film is […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Tamil)
“Shootout at Wadala”… Not-so-brief encounter
May 4, 2013
There’s something odd about gangsters with a six pack. How do they maintain it if they’re on the run from the police? Do they simply hide out at the nearest Talwalkar’s, doing bench presses as a henchman holds a gun to a trainer’s temple? And from where do they derive protein? Surely not from the […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Hindi)
“Bombay Talkies”… Calling the shorts
May 4, 2013
The quartet of shorts that make up Bombay Talkies train a zoom lens on cinema, starting on the outside and slowly drawing us in. In the first story, cinema is on the periphery, visible only as a contributor to the gossip-magazine industry and in a Hindi film music collector’s posters and albums. In the second, […]
Posted in: Cinema: Review (Hindi)
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