We got the movies!
We got the movies!!: thats a famous line from Dire Straits' "money for nothing". First things first, I abandoned my previous blogspace, since I had a feelin' that it was puerile stuff. Not that this seems any better. Its an honest attempt nevertheless.
Shankar : 'Hey ppl, Im back to blogging with a vengeance'...Naa, not quite. Just feeling bored and jobless here in IISc, Bangalore. Yeah I am back here for a few days, the place never ceases to enthrall me with its beauty. And boy, the climate, is nothing short of awesome. So what do I write on?Well, last week was a movie marathon week for us in the hostel (yeah, the quizzes were there, the profs were paining us and all the usual crap was goin on...but our enthusiasm for the movies remained at its best): Some of the nice ones we saw:
Dr.Strangelove: An awesome spoof-of-sorts on the hypocrisy and the fear psychosis of the US and Russia during the cold war 'crisis'. An absolute laugh riot.So much so that sriram and I named our comps Dmitri and DrStrangelove on the LAN (Yeah IIT Madras finally did it, we got net connections in our rooms.) Peter Sellers: this man's one protean fella. He plays Col.Mandrake, Dr.Strangelove and the US Prez; he's simply scintillatin', especially the dialogues when on the phone with the Russian Prez Dmitri {watever}ov where his tonal modulations are a sheer class apart. Kubrick, the god.
The Hours: A movie, I guess just made for the awards. Nicole kidman: this female's GOOD. The acting in the movie (by all the characters) is near flawless. Great direction too, the crossovers from Woolf's life to contemporary scenes are nice. A very interesting genre. Yet,the lesbian scenes (sexually confused women, you could say) and some of the dialogues: Obfuscation. Nevertheless, a must see, but I guess you must read Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway before the movie.
Shankar : 'Hey ppl, Im back to blogging with a vengeance'...Naa, not quite. Just feeling bored and jobless here in IISc, Bangalore. Yeah I am back here for a few days, the place never ceases to enthrall me with its beauty. And boy, the climate, is nothing short of awesome. So what do I write on?Well, last week was a movie marathon week for us in the hostel (yeah, the quizzes were there, the profs were paining us and all the usual crap was goin on...but our enthusiasm for the movies remained at its best): Some of the nice ones we saw:
Dr.Strangelove: An awesome spoof-of-sorts on the hypocrisy and the fear psychosis of the US and Russia during the cold war 'crisis'. An absolute laugh riot.So much so that sriram and I named our comps Dmitri and DrStrangelove on the LAN (Yeah IIT Madras finally did it, we got net connections in our rooms.) Peter Sellers: this man's one protean fella. He plays Col.Mandrake, Dr.Strangelove and the US Prez; he's simply scintillatin', especially the dialogues when on the phone with the Russian Prez Dmitri {watever}ov where his tonal modulations are a sheer class apart. Kubrick, the god.
The Hours: A movie, I guess just made for the awards. Nicole kidman: this female's GOOD. The acting in the movie (by all the characters) is near flawless. Great direction too, the crossovers from Woolf's life to contemporary scenes are nice. A very interesting genre. Yet,the lesbian scenes (sexually confused women, you could say) and some of the dialogues: Obfuscation. Nevertheless, a must see, but I guess you must read Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway before the movie.
Monty Python and the life of Brian: Nothing short of hilarious as is always the case with MP movies. The roman governor's diction is perhaps the highlight of the movie. But I still feel MP and The Holy Grail is the best one in the series.
Will be back with some better stuff to talk about.
Will be back with some better stuff to talk about.
posted by indolentcreature @ Saturday, September 18, 2004
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1 Comments:
I loved The Hours too, but I didn't feel one had to read Mrs.Dalloway before watching the movie to 'get' it.
Hey, doesn't the soundtrack just rock?!
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