Cinema Cinema

Movie: Boogie Nights Language: English Genre: Drama/Thriller Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Year: 1997 Watched on: 23rd April 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) A brilliant one by P T Anderson. He takes audience for a trip down the alley of American porn industry starting from 1977 and ending in 1984. The film is an exotic cocktail made of several interesting characters weaving a story that makes one laugh, get shocked and sympathize at times. Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) accidentally discovers Eddie (Mark Wahlberg) who has something special that can make him porn superstar. The film is all about life of Eddie a.k.a Dirk Diggler, people around him and the profession he is in. The film it seems is loosely based on life of porn superstar John Holmes. Interesting characters of the movie include, A porn star mother Amber(Julian Moore), fighting for her kid, Roller girl (Heather Graham) who never takes her skates off. Little Bill(William H. Macy) who always finds his wife with someone e...

Movie: Blood Simple Language: English Genre: Drama/Thriller Director: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Year: 1984 Watched on: 22nd April 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: *** (3/5) This movie is the famed Coen Brothers first movie. This movie is credited as one of the movies that started independent cinema movement in Hollywood. A bar-owner Marty in Texas through a hired private detective Visser comes to know that his wife Abby is cheating on him. Her lover is Ray who happens to be employee of the bar. Marty hires the private detective to kill his wife and her lover. But the private detective has his own plans. Overall a good film if not extraordinary. I think the characters that standout because of performance are those of Marty (Dan Hedaya) and the private detective (M. Emmet Walsh). Others performance is just about ok. The script is tight and the direction is impressive. On the technical front photography is good and music goes well with the movie. The sound too is good, the slow beat of fans ...

Movie: Ôdishon (Audition in English) Language: Japanese Genre: Horror/Thriller Director: Takeshi Miike Year: 1999 Watched Date: 20th April 2005 Reviews: Chandrakanth: **** (4/5) I think it is a very interesting movie. It is one of the best horror flicks I have ever seen. Yep way ahead of loud Hollywood movies in the same genre like "I know what you did last summer", "Scream", "Nightmare on elm street" etc. What works for this movie is the mixture of gore and realism. Luckily there are no wounds oozing green blood , Metal nails , ugly mask and other special effects. The movie starts off with romantic mood where Ayoma is seeking a new wife, later it slowly wears a shade of mystery when lady Asami goes missing before a shocking finale. The shock value I guess is tremendous. The initial pace and mood are deceptive as they camouflage gory violence. Basically it screws up our perception of what's going to happen. Cinematography is excellent. Though t...