movies i have seen...
Friday, July 23, 2004
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
In this art-house classic, Hollywood heavyweight Marlon Brando delivers a tour-de-force performance as an American expatriate in Paris who's spinning from his estranged wife's suicide. While searching for an apartment, the grief-stricken widower encounters an equally despondent young Frenchwoman (Maria Schneider), and the couple embarks on an anonymous, no-strings-attached sexual liaison that gradually exposes their mutual agony.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Gangs of New York (2002)
Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated epic focuses on the rise of Irish and Italian gangs in New York in the mid-1800s. When the leader of the Dead Rabbits is assassinated, his son Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks out the perpetrator, Bill "The Butcher" Poole (a magnificent Daniel Day-Lewis). Along the way he finds love with a street-smart thief (Cameron Diaz). This film spans two discs; both discs will be shipped to you simultaneously.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
Pather Panchali (1955)
The first film in director Satyajit Ray's acclaimed Apu Trilogy. A boy named Apu is born to a poor but proud Brahmin family. When his father, Harihar, loses his treasury job, he sets out to find work elsewhere, leaving his family with depleted resources. In his absence, their condition deteriorates. Months later, Harihar returns to face the tragedy that forces the family to leave their ancestral home.
Starring: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Director: Satyajit Ray
L.A. Confidential (1997)
A must-see whodunit that's praised as one of the best films of the 1990s. In 1950s Los Angeles, three wildly different cops (Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey) form an uneasy alliance to ferret out deep-seated police corruption. Brian Helgeland's script adaptation won an Oscar, as did Kim Basinger for her supporting role as a hooker who seduces haunted tough-guy Crowe.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe
Director: Curtis Hanson
The Untouchables (1987)
G-man Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) will stop at nothing to take down legendary gangster Al Capone (Robert De Niro) -- even if it means bending some rules and breaking some bones! Sean Connery steals the show with his Oscar-winning performance of a tough-as-nails Chicago street cop who shows Ness the ropes. Director Brian De Palma based the climactic shootout on a classic scene from the silent film Battleship Potemkin.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery
Director: Brian De Palma
Damage (1992)
Honorable government official Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons) strays when he meets a beautiful woman (Juliette Binoche) at a cocktail party. Even finding out that she's engaged to his son (Rupert Graves) doesn't dampen Fleming's passion, and a dangerous affair ignites, resulting in more than one broken heart -- including that of Fleming's loyal wife, Ingrid (Miranda Richardson). Based on Josephine Hart's novel.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche
Director: Louis Malle
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Munna Bhai (2003)
Munnabhai (Sanjay Dutt) is a goodhearted oaf who, along with his gang, settles "financial disputes." Life is good, except a couple times a year when his family (who thinks Munnabhai is a bona fide doctor) comes to visit. When that happens, Munnabhai and his posse don white coats, wear stethoscopes and act up a storm as the village doctors. But this time, when mom and dad visit, not everything goes according to plan!
Starring: Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
The Italian Job (2003)
Charlie Croker (Mark Walhberg) leads a gang that manages to pull off a major heist and steal a carload of gold stashed in a safe that they've stolen from Charlie's former crony (Ed Norton), who filched it from Charlie in the first place. But can they get away with the heist -- for good? Charlize Theron, Seth Green and Donald Sutherland co-star.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron
Director: F. Gary Gray
Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
Newlywed Laura (Julia Roberts) discovers that, in private, her handsome husband (Patrick Bergin) is an enraged psychotic who takes out his frustrations on her with his fists. Tired of being a punching bag, Laura orchestrates her escape by faking her death and starting over in a small Iowa town, where she meets a new beau. But her peace is quickly shattered when she discovers her husband is hot on her trail.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin
Director: Joseph Ruben
Friday, July 09, 2004
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Enterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a new angle, Green poses as a Jew and soon endures the full spectrum of bigotry -- from being denied a job and use of public facilities to his son suffering a beating. Little by little, the journalist comes to understand the cruel effects of prejudice.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Director: Elia Kazan
The Wild One (1954)
Stanley Kramer's stylized portrait of America's rebellious youth is considered the original motorcycle movie. Rebellious biker Johnny (Marlon Brando) and his gang descend upon a sleepy California town after being kicked out of a cycle competition. The bikers terrorize the locals while Johnny romances a local police officer's daughter. When the gang spins out of control, an innocent man is accidentally killed, and Johnny becomes the scapegoat.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jay C. Flippen
Director: Laslo Benedek
this was the first english movie of this kind. exciting... and a cute baby...
Coming Home (1978)
While her husband is in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) volunteers at a veteran's clinic, where she encounters embittered paraplegic Luke Martin (Jon Voight). Sally begins to feel progressively disconnected from her spouse and embarks on an emotional and physical affair with Luke. When Sally's husband returns, however, the trio must contend with a new reality -- and with a country that turned its back on America's fighting men.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
Director: Hal Ashby
one of those war movies that impels our thoughts. good one...
The Edge (1997)
When their plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, a fashion photographer and an intellectual businessman find themselves in a fight for survival. Each man pushes the other to their breaking point. Written by David Mamet.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin
Director: Lee Tamahori
I alomst why I ordered this movie. was excellent adventure. besides, it had everything in life that we see everyday. betrayal, love, courage, adventure what not...
Saturday, July 03, 2004
Lakshaya (2004)
Unlike other war movies of Bollywood Border, LOC etc , Farhaan Akhtar has made Lakshya quite intelligently. He has focused on the angst of a young man, his aimless life, his gradual maturing, his grilling training at the Academy and his metamorphoses into a soldier.
Gradually the story moves into the battlefield, into the bunkers and shows the realities of war, the loss of lives and the triumph of the human spirit.
Lakshya is evenly strewn with gripping sequences. Hrithik's training at the academy in the first half keeps viewers glued to the screen. There is no doubt that many young viewers will easily relate to the indecisiveness of his character in this half.
In the second half, the tempo builds up slowly and reaches a crescendo just before the climax when Hrithik and his company of soldiers climb a steep cliff to shock the intruders from the enemy territory.
Main Hoon Na (2004)
Major Ram Prasad Sharma yearns to see the ambitious project Mission Milaap become a reality. The mission may prove to be the dawn of a new tomorrow, ending the long-standing enmity between two countries. But, some forces do not want that dawn to come. One of them is Raghavan who will do anything, including threatening the life of General Amarjeet Bakshi's daughter Sanjana. To protect Sanjana, Ram Prasad poses as a student at her school. But, Ram Prasad also has another agenda. He must fulfill the dying wish of his martyred father Brigadier Shekhar Sharma. This task involves intense emotions and long-standing misunderstandings, and strangely, the key to its success also can be found at Sanjana's school. As Ram Prasad Sharma struggles to carry out his dual missions of love and violence, his only mantra is "Main Hoon Na!"
Hum Tum (2004)
Produced by Yash Chopra the film also stars Rishi Kapoor and Kiron Kher . Jatin Lalit has composed the music.
Karan Kapoor (Saif Ali Khan) works with one of India's leading newspapers as a cartoonist. Hum Tum are his cartoon characters. His daily column comes under the title of Hum Tum. Hum Tum because that's how he sees the world divided. No countries, no religions, just two divisions - boys and girls.
Karan met Rhea (Rani Mukerjee) for the first time in Amsterdam. They disagreed on everything. So to put things right, Karan innocently kissed her... to confirm their friendship. But things went worse with the unstable Rhea and the meeting ended on a bad note.
Six months later the duo meet once again in New York. And Rhea hadn't forgotten the Amsterdam kiss. So she decides to let the cat out of the bag and Karan's loses his steady girlfriend. Another relationship down the drain!
It's been 10 years since their first encounter. Once again Rhea and Karan become friends despite their differences.
Rhea has gone through some personal tragedies in her life, lots of ups and downs but Karan has always been there for her. During this time, she has moved all over the place, from Mumbai to Paris to New York and back to Mumbai.
Karan even tried fixing her up with a friend of his - with her mother's permission of course - but as with everything else, this didn't quite work out either. Meanwhile, as luck would have it, Karan's career, as a cartoonist was soaring and so one thing led to another and Rhea took off once again on a bad term with him.
But despite their mishaps, destiny has bigger plans for Karan and Rhea.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
In this pulse-pounding adaptation of Thomas J. Harris's novel, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer; unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape … and now, two deranged killers are on the loose.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster
Director: Jonathan Demme
Friday, July 02, 2004
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The rugged Ludlow clan -- father William (Anthony Hopkins) and brothers Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt) and Samuel (Henry Thomas) -- splinters when Sam goes off to fight in World War I despite his father's opposition. To protect Sam, his siblings follow suit. But their efforts fall short, and Sam is killed. Returning home, Alfred and Tristan face a new battle when both fall for Sam's fiancée (Julia Ormond).
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Edward Zwick
some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. such people become crazy or they become legends...
12 Angry Men (1957)
A guilty verdict means death -- but the jury's not about to let that spoil their day. Twelve men must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his father. Only one (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time to coolly deliberate the case. Sidney Lumet (Network) made his directorial debut in this fiery drama that illuminates all the petty impediments on the path to justice.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Sidney Lumet
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Directed by Richard Attenborough, A Bridge Too Far details a pivotal day during World War II, when an Allied task force tried -- and failed -- to win the war by seizing key Belgian bridges. The film boasts a cast of thousands (including Sean Connery, Robert Redford, James Caan, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier) and some of the biggest battle sequences ever filmed.
Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Redford
Director: Richard Attenborough
