Which non-indian film u saw recently has made u post here???

**vithagan** · 31st July 2011, 05:52 PM

Unknown - Good

Fair Game - Not fair, boring

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**ajithfederer** · 1st August 2011, 06:27 AM

Saving Private Ryan

Spielberg's best film yet. Tom Hank's best performance yet.

**ajithfederer** · 1st August 2011, 07:12 AM

Vakkali this is a drama series of a life time. The props, the costumes, the authenticity, the performances(John Damm, John Slattery ; take a bow guys). It's 1960's America and Mad Men represents the guys working in Advertising business in Mad-ison avenue in NY. The series revolves around their professional/personal lives and its too good. Actually it's quite shocking and revealing how dirty the business world could be.

Special mention to Elisabeth Moss who plays Peggy Olson. Commendable performance Miss

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Kid, You've been through this?. Heavily recommended.

Originally Posted by ajithfederer

Mad men season 1

AMC's still the best in the business in making original series(es). More later.

P.S: The men especially(and some of the women) could get cancer and liver disease(if what they are drinking is indeed booze) just by the amount they smoke and drink in these episodes. Food is another component. Almost every episode you see these guys consume various food in various events.

P.S 2: And throughout various episodes, they refer films from the 60's like the Psycho, the Apartment, funny things happened etc etc. Hell, this agency works on Nixon for the presidential election of the 60's.

**groucho070** · 1st August 2011, 07:25 AM

SPR, watched in theatre in Singapore. Superb experience, the sound effect, the bullet zinging past you. First 45 minutes was cinematic experience par excellence. After that it was Mission Impossible set in WWII.

**ajithfederer** · 2nd August 2011, 06:06 AM

Lipstick scene from Madmen :smokecigar:

**kid-glove** · 2nd August 2011, 08:11 AM

I have, Feddy. It's brilliant. Hopefully I will finish the remaining 4th season episodes.

**kid-glove** · 3rd August 2011, 02:14 AM

Tree of Life - As a massive Malick fan, I found it slightly disappointing without being surprised all along. Heidegger's Being & Beings. Angst & Finitude. Hermeneutic circle et all is all good (Forget one's own reservations about the diff. schools of thoughts, It's important to identify filmmaker's & the success with which it's realized ) but never comes together as one full piece as it winds up towards the end. Malick was always going to immanentize the eschaton after all the suggestivity in his previous films. Turning what Heidegger feared most about this medium on its own solipsistic head. For the most part, he succeeds. It DOES work as a tone poem that one'd expect from Malick, with its own pattern of aural-visual where the spoken word is, in various connotations, essentially the same Heideggerian question. Like all his films, there's a main narrative which meanders around that one mortal question as it touches amoral, oedipal, fraternal, filial & familial obligations - in short the very existence.

Malick achieves most of what he set out to do. And the way his career was treading all along, he was bound to make this. This works as an audacious cinematic ride since 'Enter the void' - For which reason, it ought to be seen in widest screen possible. Malick's fondness of v-o's isn't abusive. The images flow but not with cinematic poesis of a Tarkovsky, who seamlessly sculpts time & space. The darkness & bright light that's often used to counterpoint null void & emanating sentient source seem to stand for mortality of medium itself. WCM had never been used with as much efficacy in American cinema since Kubrick.

Subsequent views could change my mind, but I feel the urge to revisit his other (better) films than to ride on this again.

Btw If you ever thought Malick finds contemporary setting utterly vacuous & empty to stay off it, Sean Penn portion reaffirms the assumption.