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Guru Smaran @gurusmaran
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Reviewed Rashomon
Seeing is NOT believing!
The year was 1951. The jury at the Venice International Film Festival sat down to watch an entry from Japan. The movie was called Rashomon, directed by a not-so...read more
Reviewed Red Beard
The Master’s Masterpiece!
For the last 1 year, I had been trying to lay my hands on a DVD of Akira Kurosawa’s 1965 masterpiece Red Beard (Akahige). I had heard a lot of great thing...read more
Reviewed Three Brothers
A well-made movie…
Three Brothers [1981] was the first DVD I spotted in the Foreign Films section of my DVD library. The DVD cover was a subtle, squeaky-clean white, while the oth...read more
Reviewed The Hidden Fortress
Strategy at it’s best!
The Hidden Fortress [1958], directed by Akira Kurosawa, is considered to be the primal influence for George Lucas’ Star Wars. The movie is big in every se...read more
Reviewed Veronica Guerin
A Riveting True Story
Veronica Guerin [2003], directed by Joel Schumacher, is a true story of an Irish journalist of the same name who died during her attempts to bring the drug lord...read more
Reviewed In America
Do you believe in magic?
In America [2002], directed by Jim Sheridan, is a beautiful and touching movie about an Irish immigrant family’s first year in America. Based on the direc...read more
Reviewed Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Poetry in Motion
Messages are aplenty in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams [1990]. The movie consists of eight episodes, or dreams, with themes ranging from environment conservation...read more
Reviewed Pulp Fiction
Zed’s dead, baby! Zed’s dead!
Pulp Fiction, former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino?s second directorial venture, was released in 1994. It boasted of a huge star cast: John Travolta, Samu...read more
Reviewed Hiroshima - John Hersey
The Horrors of War
August 06, 1945, Hiroshima. Dr. Ferufumi Sasaki walked around one of the corridors of the huge Red Cross Hospital with a blood specimen for a test. Mrs. Hatsuyo...read more
Reviewed Scarface
The world is yours!
Al Pacino. Oliver Stone. Brian de Palma. That pretty much sums up why you should see Scarface. Those of you who aren’t convinced yet, read on. Scarface is...read more
Reviewed Sanjuro
Another Samurai classic from Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune gives another power-packed performance as the wandering, master-less samurai in Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie, Sanjuro. Often regarded as a c...read more
Reviewed The Shining
Here’s Johnny!
I don?t usually watch horror movies. I made an exception with this one, because of the following reasons: It?s a Stanley Kubrick film based on a Stephen King ...read more
Reviewed Sethu
A tragic love story
When Sethu was released, it became a flop. Nobody wanted to see a movie made by a debutant director with a flop hero and an unknown heroine. Many walked off dur...read more
Reviewed Punnagai Mannan
A Timeless Classic!
Punnagai Mannan is undoubtedly one of the best love stories of Tamil cinema. Directed by K. Balachander, one of the best directors of Tamil cinema, this is one ...read more
Reviewed We Are Not Your Monkeys
Dark Side of the Epic
Anand Patwardhan’s We are not your Monkeys is about many things: the caste system, gender oppression and humanity. Backdrop: The Ramayana. Thematically, W...read more
Reviewed In the Name of God
Stop in the Name of Man!
The Alliance Française presented a few documentary films by noted film-maker Anand Patwardhan a few days back. When it was announced that the first film, &...read more
Reviewed Amadeus
Mozart immortalised
''Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.'' - Henry Threadgill What better way to descr...read more
Reviewed The Battleship Potemkin
Long live the revolution!
The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein, is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Released in 1925, this film was actually a project to ...read more
Reviewed Scandal
An under-rated gem
At the surface level, Scandal (1950) is just another courtroom drama. But as one digs deeper, one stumbles upon an assortment of themes, some of which are: the ...read more
Reviewed Ratha Kanneer
Tears of Blood
The year was 1954. Independent India was only 7 years old. M. R. Radha had recently broken the very basic rule of theater acting: he showed his back to the audi...read more
Reviewed Mardaani 2
Mardaani 2 - Hard Hitting & Thought Provoking
Mardaani 2 - Hard Hitting & Thought Provoking It's a very long time that I wrote a review on MS. Just watched Mardaani 2 on Amazon Prime. If bollywood has S...read more
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