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its been one of those "meh" weeks. Nothing has really happened. I'm currently a little sick and I dont know why. Waiting for the test results to come in...in the meantime i will continue to be paranoid.
I've been watching a lot of movies. I saw "nowhere in africa" (brilliant), "heights"(pretentious, but somehow very good), "The motorcycle diaries" (great, but not as great as i thought it would be), The first two harry potters (and another to follow, as a run up to goblet of fire), "Win a date with Tad Hamilton!" (yuck). Next up are "Happy Endings" and "Gosford Park". I've tried to watch gosford twice now and slept each time, and I know this is one of those perfect Agatha Christie type movies i would love. So one more time. After that, I will check out Happy Endings, which i've heard great things about and its by the director of "The Opposite of Sex" which is a movie i loved. Possibly, one of the few movies in which i can stand Christina Ricci. Is it me or does her head look like a tomato on top of a smaller than average human body??
Of all the movies i saw above i definitely recommend:
Nowhere in Africa and
Heights
I can't wait to watch Prisoner of Azkaban again, it is such a better movie than the first two. Just goes to show how much direction and most of all good editing and score can add to a movie. My hats off to Alfonso Cuaron, the director, who incidentally directed Y tu mama tambien. A Spanish film about a roadtrip. (For movie buffs, it stars Gael Garcia Bernal, whos also in Motorcycle Diaries which is also a movie about a roadtrip!).
The biggest reason why anyone should watch Y tu mama is because Mexico bears more than a passing resemblance to India. It is so much like India, i felt like the lead characters were driving in Maharashtra somewhere.
Sorry about the Film encyclopedia post, i'm just in an uber film geeky phase right now.
Currently Listening: The Hours Soundtrack by Philip Glass (my all time favorite film score period)
Currently Reading: The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
Currently Doing: Procrastinating at work to write this post.
I've been watching a lot of movies. I saw "nowhere in africa" (brilliant), "heights"(pretentious, but somehow very good), "The motorcycle diaries" (great, but not as great as i thought it would be), The first two harry potters (and another to follow, as a run up to goblet of fire), "Win a date with Tad Hamilton!" (yuck). Next up are "Happy Endings" and "Gosford Park". I've tried to watch gosford twice now and slept each time, and I know this is one of those perfect Agatha Christie type movies i would love. So one more time. After that, I will check out Happy Endings, which i've heard great things about and its by the director of "The Opposite of Sex" which is a movie i loved. Possibly, one of the few movies in which i can stand Christina Ricci. Is it me or does her head look like a tomato on top of a smaller than average human body??
Of all the movies i saw above i definitely recommend:
Nowhere in Africa and
Heights
I can't wait to watch Prisoner of Azkaban again, it is such a better movie than the first two. Just goes to show how much direction and most of all good editing and score can add to a movie. My hats off to Alfonso Cuaron, the director, who incidentally directed Y tu mama tambien. A Spanish film about a roadtrip. (For movie buffs, it stars Gael Garcia Bernal, whos also in Motorcycle Diaries which is also a movie about a roadtrip!).
The biggest reason why anyone should watch Y tu mama is because Mexico bears more than a passing resemblance to India. It is so much like India, i felt like the lead characters were driving in Maharashtra somewhere.
Sorry about the Film encyclopedia post, i'm just in an uber film geeky phase right now.
Currently Listening: The Hours Soundtrack by Philip Glass (my all time favorite film score period)
Currently Reading: The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
Currently Doing: Procrastinating at work to write this post.
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