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

[salem.saravanan]

Watched "The Bridge On The River Kwai"(1957)
Good movie and recommended to watch.

[ajithfederer]

Ok so 127 hours paakalam ; Dangled rejetted; Thanks wibha-ji /

Has anybody seen 127 hours? Its been released close to where I live. I have not read any reviews. I heard its (the amputation scene) difficult to watch, especially for ladees, is that true?

Its just horrible.

don't EVER EVER watch it.

Tangled is really cute

[P_R]

All About Eve

Beautiful

Must say, the last 15 mins or so was a let down. Significant drop in style. But overall, quite impressive

[kid-glove]

IS there any decidedly 'talky' film (and considered a classic) that you actively disliked?

[P_R]

IS there any decidedly 'talky' film (and considered a classic) that you actively disliked?

Yeah this one was a bit talky, but I didn't quite mind because I liked the dialogues

I don't think I have seen many classics, let alone talky classics, to be able to answer your question.

But regarding 'too much dialogue' as a charge against a film.. well, yeah I grumble a bit , but get over it. Particularly, if the characters and situations well written and believably enacted. And I don't think too much was spoken here either. All playwrights, actors, writers and directors : eloquent people, quite 'believable' they could be as eloquent as they were shown to be and capable of the nuanced conversation, repartee etc.

btw only today I found out this is another Mankewicz

I go to sleep tonight with the satisfaction of knowing that this film trounced Sunset Boulevard at the Oscars :P

[kid-glove]

Thanks man. To my mind, Sunset B. is far better. :sake-hands: again?

[groucho070]

I go to sleep tonight with the satisfaction of knowing that this film trounced Sunset Boulevard at the Oscars :P

[P_R]

Right from the title there is a clear indication of depth, something to bite into, which I liked. I am not sure if it is becoming of a movie and all that, but then that's what I like.

funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder, so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you go back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common - whether we like it or not - being a woman.

Now, how do you not put that in so many words and still make it as clear and interesting.

First of all I find that theme conceptually far more interesting because it makes 'becoming outdated' as one its several insecurities in it.

When Margo says that line to Karen - it is a 'she is a girl, after all' feeling that comes over. i.e. not in any condescending sense (or perhaps in some ways). But in a true 'fact of life' observation.
Karen things she has made her peace with these tussles in her marriage to Lloyd (little boy - she calls him in the fight about Eve). But at a later point in time she realizes the only talent she has is 'loving her man'. And this observation is not without the suggestion that this is a compulsion that comes from a premieval survival instinct. But also, love and marriage do invariably come to that for a woman - who, it is underlined and again, ages faster than her man.

It is after that line that Karen kind of understands her sabotage and the damage it may have caused.

The impossibility of love and for being loved is what Addison correctly deduces as Eve's failing (if at all). i.e. what makes her so not a woman. But that's why she'll be a killer.

And she may not find herself 'a little boy' and get back to 'being a woman'. I guess you need to be a little regressive to see that to be a horror and a pity.

The post-audition scene with fiery exchanges about the dialogues about the writer vs. 'mere' enactor, Margo's bed ('woman's place' inside joke?) being on stage in front of an empty auditorium.
Bill clutching her and getting on top of her and screaming about her paranoia and his love - everything worked for me.

Excellent film I say.

[P_R]

I go to sleep tonight with the satisfaction of knowing that this film trounced Sunset Boulevard at the Oscars :P

The 'unlikely relationship' bit was quite boring to me. The nightly writing jaunts, romance was what was interesting but that seemed underdeveloped.

After a point there was no 'story' in SB. I mean, you know where it is headed.The Cecil B DeMille steedio visit, koot. Butler-husband writing fanmail, sari. I guess your 'heart is supposed to go out for the woman' who is taking the beauty treatments etc. Mine didn't. And my heartstrings are quite tuggable, mind you.

By the time we got to the end: thee famous 'descent down the stairs to photographers' scene was like, "idhu dhaan oru maNi nEram munnAdiyE theriyumE, ippo edhukku ivvaLO fanfare".

Anyway, adhaan screenflay-ku kuduthurrukkAingaLLa, sandhOsappattukkunga

[Dinesh84]

Hitch

A feel good movie Will Smith, Eva Mendes