World Movies

Never in my life i thought i would be indebted to some media house but then plans of men and mice!!In come UTV with its assortment of movies needing subtitles and i seldom need the assistance of remote off late...hail the reading channel-UTV world movies...some of the amazing movies on air ,i recommend are
Heaven (Eng/French)-Directed by the legendary Kiewslowski,starting Cate Blanchett and that kid bro from 'gone in 60 seconds',this is one movie that brings together the visual sense and story together,beautifully

NOBODYs Perfect-Spanish-Comedy-A story of 3 handicap friends over on nite of fun


Monday-Japanese,2000-Black comedy-Rating 4.5/5....thats how good it is


A short film about Love:An interesting take on love


Three colors:BLUE,WHITE,RED:One of my favorite trilogy is on air,it always advisable to watch them in that order-you won't regret it


PS-All of them can be googled or on imdb..have fun

Are you on the list?

Are you on the list?
No?Don't worry that just means that either "I have taken care of you" or "We didn't move in the same circles"
(There is a third,worse end-"I righteously avoided you each and every time you our your emissaries were around")
And In my defense i was the offspring of 80's . To add to the woes i wasn't active till the 90's...so I do have a lot of catching up to do.

The House of sand and fog
History of world in 10 1/2 chapters
Kafka on the shore
The book thief
End-Game
Like Birds,Like Fishes
The master and Magarita
Portnoy’s complaint
Consider the lobster
River of fire
The myth of Sisyphus
Girl,Interrupted
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Look back in anger
A woman of no importance
All poems of Pablo Neruda,T.S.Eliot,W.B.yeats
The New York Trilogy
Longitudes and Attitudes
From Beirut to Jerusalem
O Jerusalem
The Bell Jar
A million little pieces
Vernon God Little
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
The Trail
Moth Smoke
The Joke-Milan Kundera
Ignorance -Milan Kundera
The unbearable lightness of being-Milan Kundera
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Counter culture through the ages
All the Kings men
Atonement
On the Road
Death in Venice
Sandman series
Watchmen series
Clockwork orange
still life with woodpecker
Travels with Charlie in search of America

PS-This my To Be Read list if it wasn't obvious yet from the length *sigh*.All i need now is Time and Finances..any philanthropists around?

Wishlist-My condo 'needs',

In the spirit of Christmas,which is pretty synonymous with gifts under a tree in this wonderfully vain life of the new century, i am going to describe a wish list of mine.No obligation for the flying Reindeer postal service to make this delivery,its going to be my hard earned money from working at a modern age sweat shop (albeit sweat is non-existent with the A/c's) thats gonna complete my dream bunk.
Over the years i have made a clear picture of what i want to settle down in though the accessories started coming to me quite recently. Here is the list of a few must-haves i would savor in the glory of my own flat

karaoke Machine - With befitting speakers

Skateboard ramp - I just got to have one for the heck of it.

A vending Machine

A paintball gun - What can be more fun that shooting someone with red paint? (may be shooting them with Green )

One soda maker and one Expresso machine - They look so good with each other,the perfect couple!

Yeah those should do for now

PS- Santa is welcome to have Oreo and Milk anytime at my place, you know.

Adaptations,Inspirations and the Likes

Movies nowadays seem to be all about adaptation. All the creativity is being put into picking up the form to adapt into a movie. It does take a lot of effort to pick the right biography, anecdotes, books or even graphic novels! Gone are days where people came up with intelligent puzzles to make thrillers or wrote ‘fictional’ characters that seemed so real. Now we just leave it to Time, someone somewhere will do something seemingly impressive and Viola we got a movie. So writer some where breaks his skull to blissfully form a new protagonist and Bingo we go a movie! Pardon me for being so excited by this new way of making movies, can’t help since the impressive list I made of good movies in the past years looks somewhat like this

(Most of the Oscar 2006)
Brokeback mountain
Munich
Capote
Walk the Line
Elizabeth
North Country
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Now 2007)
The Queen
Last King of Scotland
Departed (though from another movie, adaptation nevertheless)

The Dark Knight
Wanted
Atonement
300

I too like good movies and definitely think the ones named deserve their recognition but hell I would like to see a healthy percentage of original fiction characters, events, stories that I can relate to!

places to visit!!--part 2

Adding few more places on The Earth to the LIST

13> Santorini (Just look a picture and the night life)
14> Tuscany (I will need a convertible for this trip :P)
15> Paris (The cafes,Art,The tower-My digi cam will be busy here)
16> Egypt (Pyramids Ofcourse!!)
17> The Grand Canyon (Its unbelievable it exists)
18> Venice (cheesy romance)
19> Bora Bora (The water ,the water,the water!)
20> Galapagos Islands (And Ecuador on a broad range)
21> Petra (Just amazing architecture)
22> Beirut (I just have to be there)
23> Prague (Ah Czech)
24> Vienna (All the spy fiction really made an impresiion :D )
24> …I am not done yet!

places to visit!!--part 1

Hey I am back with the lists, saw a great episode about Sao Paula and man was i mad or what!! My passport doesn't have a single stamping!! The purpose of the paper's existence is to have something written on it!!An my passportz lying there,going no where!! Here to all the stamps i wished i had!

Places i would love to leave my footprints on
1>Sao Paulo (the caipirinha's,samba,street food)
2>Rio De Janerio (all those and the beaches!!)
3>Rome (all that History)
4>Athens (Greece was always special)
5>Istanbul (ah the culture!)
6>Barcelona (:D)
7>Tokyo(susie?)
8>Dublin(pubs)
9>London (Pop culture,pubs)
10>New York(life)
11>Moscow(city of palaces?)
12>Florence (all the street architecture)
13>..part 2

Trivia

Albert Einstein was offered to be the President of Israel in 1948

One of the pig leaders in Orwell’s classic “Animal Farm” is named Napoleon

FCUK stands for the company French Connection ,the company

Niels Bohr was given the assumed name Nicholas Baker while working on Manhattan Project

The Peanuts character “Woodstock” was named after the rock festival by Charles Schulz

Playlist

Sufjan stevens – Chicago, For widows in paradise

Imogen Heap – Hide and seek

Frou Frou – Let Go

Snow Patrol – Chasing cars, open your eyes

The Shins – New slang

RENT – Tango Maureen, Light my candle, Seasons of love, No day but today,One song Glory

Phantom Planet – California

Mandy Moore – Someday we’ll know, Only hope, Its gotta be love

Switchfoot – Dare you to move, learning to Breathe

Anna Nallick – Breathe, wreck of day

Life house- Hanging my the moment

Honey and Moon

Dandy Warhols- We used to be friends

The Fray - How to save a life

Molly smiles (Uptown girls OST)

PS- all of the above were collected from soundtracks of movies and tv series, awesome songs

They earned it!!!-LIST 1

There are more than 2 ways to get lost...I mean one need not be obnoxious to be asked to get lost nor the event be forgettable...one vanishes from memory unintentionally, titles buried under piling information, and simply therez apathy!!
I have periods of paranoia at times.This is not one of those.But this is when i get skeptical about human race and do my part by reclaiming the place of few worthy ones...its more like reassuring myself to optimism!!
And since i am penning this after a 48 hour wake up (of course it took naps of 4 hrs in between..i can't do drugs)....i starting with my first list of worthy titles

OF all the trash bollywood manages to churn out each year, few actually stick their way out of the crap...here's a blog to those contemporary movies

• Hazaaron Khwaeisein Aisi- Dir:Sudhir Mishra....An awesome film about Love, Ideals,Pragmatism,Power and Bravery (Indeed)...Three characters evolve ,mature and find themselves during the emergency era (That's rite , then on-mythical era which people seldom mention nowadays!!!)
• Kal-Yesterday and tomorrow - A finely made drama/suspense. The best part are again the people in the film,real,grey and raising up to the task in spite of their vanities.
• Morning Raaga - This actually can be called a well paced entertainer.Amazing soundtrack and Shabana Azmi are few of the strengths of the film about strangers united in common grief and finding Closure!!
• Khosla ka Ghosla - This is a real entertainer , novel script, funky filming (same goes for tracks-Chakde pattay for example), and engaging (rangeen) characters!! Addressing the turmoils of the middle class Kher trying to figure out the Khabja of his land...A real good catch this one is
• Ek Chaalis ki last local-- This is the best dark satire i have seen in quite a while!! Amazingly original story, dark characters with the local flavor (the tamilian cop) and a quite few double crossings makes this a very engaging film!!

This list is no way definitive of the last 4-5 years but definitely the films are!!!

TBC,