Posted in Blogged, tagged movie, ran, review, the body snatcher on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Movie: Ran (1984)
Kurosawa takes Lear and strips off all the tragedy, leaving nothing more than a bleak, hopeless shell. His Lear is a Hidetora Ichimonji, a warlord who had united all lands under him by the sword and burning down all he couldn’t conquer. Not exactly the doting while at the same time crotchety grandfatherly [...]
Posted in Blogged, tagged kaminey, review on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) A movie
Much has already been written, said, tweeted about Kaminey and the movie is now dead and buried in our collective memories. I caught it last Saturday and thought it was a pretty fine movie. Points from the movie that stuck with me:
‘Apna haath Jagannath’ with the Mallika Sherawat pin-up below – Now I [...]
Posted in Blogged, tagged battlestar galactica, boredom, nostalgia, poetry, randomness, review, topsy turvy on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) A new translation wiki for Indian Poetry in here spawned by this discussion. To quotify a snippet:
…it’s only by engaging more aggressively with contemporary poetry elsewhere that we’ll be able to develop a vibrant community of our own. By focusing too much on ‘Indian’ poetry, we risk creating a community that is insulated, complacent [...]
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