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The director you need to know
A brief introduction to the director of The Avengers. (And Firefly.) Back in the winter of 2007 and stretching right into early 2008, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, crippling both Hollywood and American television. Films were … Continue reading
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The Spy Who Loved Martinis
The upcoming Bond film has a grim fate in store for 007. Olives are not the only fruit. Even as Hawkeye Pierce declared those of them doused in gin the only green vegetables he ate, a particular British secret … Continue reading
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A History Of Silence
In which I celebrate my favourite Vidhu Vinod Chopra film. Vidhu Vinod Chopra was 29 years old when he made Khamosh, and to me, coming from a bright young filmmaker flying the independent flag high, the cunning murder mystery … Continue reading
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“Cue COOL music.”
Merely reading a Tarantino script beats watching most movies. In the Quentin Tarantino universe, everything is connected. I brought in Tuesday by rereading the final draft of the screenplay of his upcoming Django Unchained, only to realise that March 27 happens … Continue reading
Old magicians, new tricks
Martin Scorsese casts a spell with his first family film. I have always been distrustful of high-heeled shoes. While adorning female feet, they’ve struck me at various points of my life as precarious, duplicitous and even deceitfully intimidating, with a … Continue reading
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Conquering the Oscars, with one leg
Screen goddesses don’t come with training heels. Black dresses don’t have to be little when you’re Angelina Jolie. It was a particularly predictable and soporific night at the Oscars, when Jolie walked across the stage, her infamous lips red like … Continue reading
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Shah Rukh Khan, The Artist
A remake suggestion for The Man Who Looked Good As King I watched Michel Hazanivicius’s The Artist twice last weekend, and while immediately, irrevocably besotted by that beautifully crafted love letter to cinema — and the obvious frontrunner at all … Continue reading
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Let Woody Allen tell our tales
Like Buzz Lightyear learnt awhile ago, we must always follow Woody. We in Hindi cinema have stopped telling the stories of our cities. We’ve reduced our big towns into convenient and stereotype-strewn backdrops, sure, told apart by accents and … Continue reading
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Will Priyanka be the next Batgirl?
And are comic books turning too sexy for their own good? The latest issue of Catwoman takes a while to show us her face. First we meet her breasts, nearly tumbling out of a lacy scarlet bra as she … Continue reading
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How to ‘fix’ The Tree Of Life
Art-rock for art’s sake The best way to watch 1939 gem The Wizard Of Oz, as many of you are doubtless aware, has nothing whatsoever to do with the film’s director, Victor Fleming. The original is a perfectly great film, a … Continue reading
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