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Interview with Justin Calen Chiang

2008-06-30 16:50:02 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
When I chose to have Cinema will save us as the slogan for my blog, I had the least idea really how far reaching that phrase was. In a succession of four words, it says how one can put all their trust into cinema and how they will never be let down. Weve known so many instances of young filmmakers putting everything they have into their first...
 
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Jean-Luc GODARD et La Chinoise

2008-06-22 11:40:12 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
Very few films have managed to leave me not knowing what to do at their conclusion. La Chinoise (1967) is one of those films. In my opinion this is perhaps the most complex of Godards films. His experimentation with narrative structure, his mixture of real-life and fiction and his nature of creating restlessness among his characters are all...
 
Tags: godard, jean-luc godard, colour films, films, godard switches, bad film, film, godard employs, film takes
 
 
 
 
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A Big-Budget Exception: My Reaction to The Wachowski Brothers Speed Racer

2008-05-14 09:16:21 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
This is something I never thought I would do! Ever since I started writing on this blog, Ive carefully kept the Big-budget Hollywood flicks at bay by using my custom painted Blockbuster detection and annihilation system. But today, one flick has managed to trick its way through this fool-proof mechanism (like when Stealth Bombers fooled the...
 
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Italian Neo-Realism: I Vitelloni by Federico Fellini

2008-05-11 21:35:10 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
With I Vitelloni (1953), the great master filmmaker Federico Fellini really tells the story of our lives. The film is set in a small Italian coastal town of Rimini (which co-incidentally also happens to be Fellinis hometown) and tells the life story of a group of friends. There is the skirt-chaser Fausto, the hard working Alberto, the...
 
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The Dance Movie Blogathon: Remembering Fred Astaire

2008-05-10 18:24:24 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...Movies). We watched An American in Paris (1951) and Singing in the Rain (1952) and many more and then we came across the great Fred Astaire. I discovered that he was every bit as good as Gene Kelly and indeed matched him step to step. This might appear rather reversed to a lot of fans of classical Hollywood musicals because it was Gene Kelly...
 
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A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral

2008-05-01 19:00:44 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
Ive always found Iranian cinema to posses a kind of freshness that is rarely seen. In a country like Iran where there are a lot of rules imposed on the art of cinema, it is astonishing to see what level of storytelling some of its filmmakers have reached. Take the shining example of A Taste of Cherry (1997 Palm dOr winner), the quintessential...
 
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Cinema and Culture: The Angry Mods of Quadrophenia

2008-04-07 11:14:23 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
If youre from the United Kingdom and youve watched Quadrophenia (1979), for you it would be a film about your country in the 1960s but for everyone else unfamiliar with the Mod culture, it would probably not make so much sense. The film written and directed by Franc Roddam has been classified as an A-grade cult-classic, an influential factor of...
 
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Films about Film: Observations and Thoughts on Godards Contempt (1963)

2008-04-02 22:00:38 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
Contempt was one of those films that blew me away from the first frame. It was my first experience of a Jean-Luc Godard film and really nobody warned me about anything about this iconic film. Godard brings forward a sort of fearlessness that no one else can. Contempt was the first commercial venture for Godard, having built a notorious...
 
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Remembering Anthony Minghella

2008-04-01 12:36:57 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
Id never thought of myself as a particularly creative person. I had one instinct, which was to find some escape route from wearing a yellow nylon jacket and selling Minghellas Ice Cream for the rest of my life. -Anthony Minghella in Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out (2003, Simon & Schuster Anthony Minghella, the visionary director behind...
 
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The Auteur Theory and Canned Soup

2008-03-23 21:03:35 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...movies, only good and bad directors Fran รง ois Truffaut In the current situation of world cinema, certain directors have come to become a brand. We know what the new Tarantino movie will have in it: a trunk shot, a long take and dialogue with razor-sharp wit. What about Shyamalan? A twist ending for sure! But not before 100 minutes of...