Monika’s Pensieve

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Taare Zameen Par (India, 2007)
Seen: Saturday, 28th March 2009 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 165′
Director: Aamir Khan
Cast: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tanay Chheda
Production House: Aamir Khan Productions, PVR Pictures
Plot: The story of Ishaan Awasthi, a little boy who struggles with school because of dyslexia.
Scene From The Film
This is a sort of song number from the film [...]

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Dostana (India, 2008)
Seen: Thursday, 26th March 2009 (cinema, special screening)
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Cast: John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol, Kiron Kher, Shilpa Shetty (cameo), Boman Irani
Production House: Dharma Productions
Plot: (from imdb)
Kunal and Sameer, two straight guys who pretend to be a gay couple to secure an posh Miami apartment, but both of them [...]

They’ve released six new character posters for the upcoming Harry Potter movie. I think they’re really ugly and too photoshopped ;) Much preferred the previous ones.
However, there’s one thing about them that makes me very happy *grin* Usually before every film they release the posters of the characters they’re going to focus on (for example [...]

I’ve started a favourite films page :) (you can access it at any time from the upper menu). I’m getting pretty lost in terms of what my favourite films are, so I’m just going to update the page as I watch films I really liked. It’ll also be a way of saying “I really like [...]

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Water (Canada/India, 2005)
Seen: Monday, 23rd March 2009 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 117′
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Sarala, Manorama, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Raghuvir Yadav
Production House: Deepa Mehta Films, Flagship International, David Hamilton Productions, Echo Lake Productions, Noble Nomad Pictures, Téléfilm Canada
Plot: Chuyia is 7 years old when her husband dies. She has never seen him [...]

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Coraline (USA, 2009)
Seen: Thursday, 19th March 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 100′
Director: Henry Selick
Production House: Laika Entertainment, Pandemonium
Plot: Coraline moves to a pink house in the middle of nowhere, where she finds an alternate version of her life where everything is a lot more fun… except that people have buttons for eyes.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
I enjoyed the story, [...]

This is quite interesting… For a long time now, China has allowed the release of only 20 foreign films a year. But apparently now they’re planning on easing the restrictions in Shanghai. The article talks about how China hopes the move might help its own film industry, facilitating the export of Chinese films. My slightly [...]

Here’s my random film fact of the day…
There are differences between how well films do in the box office in different parts of the world. Some of these differences are due to how the films are distributed and/or promoted, but when we’re talking about Hollywood, which has the means to do the distribution and promotion [...]

So the rumours are that Warner Bros is disappointed with the box office Watchmen has generated and sees the problem in the R rating of the film - their PG-13 comic adaptations did much better box office.
While the gore in the film did bother me, I’d be sad to see the nudity and sex out [...]

Loved this interview :)