Khane-ye Doust Kodjast - Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987 - Iranian Movie)

Director - Abbas Kiarostami
Producer - Ali Reza Zarrin
Writer   - Abbas Kiarostami
Starring - Babek Ahmed Poor
              Ahmed Ahmed Poor
Cinematographer - Farhad Saba
Editor   - Abbas Kiarostami
Music    - Amine Allah Hessine        



Iranian movies have always been simple and outstanding. When you have the quest 2 watch good movies, it will reach you by one or the other way. That is how this movie reached movie this morning and thus introduced me to a great director from Iran.
The movie travels and makes you travel with it. Only people who experience it can take a movie like this. so only many struggling nations have better depth of movies even at low budget. these movies will stand true till mankind is having his goals towards proving his superiority to others.

Kerala Cafe (2009, Malayalam Cinema)

Kerala cafe - Cast and Crew
                     Trailer

I am not writing the crew list here because it is a big one, so only i have given the link to check it..
This movie is first of its kind to indian cinema,atleast to my knowledge. movie which has compilation of 10 short films by 10 directors. Just 14 mins to every director and what can they tell in that? what will they convey? we are people with different tastes, but here you will get all your tastes. Luckily i watched this movie in theatre, twice, in last year's trivandrum film festival. (today is the last day of this year's film festival and i dint go there to witness it).
in this 10 movies my favorite are Happy Journey, Bridge, Puram Kazchakal. these three short films really had taken its toll on me.
in Puram Kazchakal, Mamooty has proven what he is worth it. you have to watch it first time to know what it is and second time to see what expressions he has given at each instant. I would bow down to him.
Happy Journey and Bridge directors are wonderful addition to the cinema world.

3-iron - Trailer

Director - Kim Ki-duk
Producer - Kim Ki-duk
Writor   - Kim Ki-duk
Starring - Jae Hee
           Lee Seung-yeon
Music    - Slvian        
Cinematographer - Seong-back Jang        
Editor - Ki-duk Kim

in Kim-Ki-Duk's movies dialogues you can write it down in 1 or 2 A4 sheets, but the movie speaks for itself. He is one of the director who has understood the language of film, it is not to write lengthy dialgoues but to make people by just seeing. the deafening silence he creates makes all to watch it. I still rember, last year how i was standing in big line under the sun to watch his movie in Trivandrum Film Festival. year by year this man's movie has always taken its pride by being the plum for the film festival. I was really proud when i watched so many people waiting for this man's movie in the sun. he deserves it and never did disappoint the people.
this movie is a simple when where you cant tel if you are living in real or dream.

Soundtrack

SPRING SUMMER FAL WINTER AND SPRING (2003, Korean movie)

SPRING SUMMER FAL WINTER AND SPRING  -   Trailer

Director  - Kim Ki-duk
Writer     - Kim Ki-duk
Starring   - Su Oh-yeong
                 Kim Young-min
                 Seo Jae-kyung
                Kim Jong-ho
                Ha Yeo-jin
Music - Ji-woong Park        
Cinematography - Dong-hyeon Baek        
Editor - Ki-duk Kim        

If you have never watched any Kim- Ki - Duk's movie, den I will recommend strongly to watch this movie. you will surely fall in love with the man. He is one of my favourite director. His movies never cross more than 100 mins of running time, but the impact that it leaves on you will be for 100 years. This is one movie which everyone should watch. How much naturally we live can be known. the song that comes at the end of the movie is really good one, with subtitle if you watch it you will know its impact. the movie keeps me reminding always what i am and what i should be doing.

KHUDA KE LIYE (2007 - Pakistani movie)

KHUDA KE LIYE - Trailer

Director -  Shoaib Mansoor
Writer    -  Shoaib Mansoor
Producer - Shoman Productions
Starring   - Shaan
                 Fawad Afzal Khan
                 Iman Ali
                 Hameed Sheikh
                 Naseeruddin Shah
Music     -  Rohail Hyatt
Cinematographers - Ali Mohammad
                             Neil Lisk
                             Ken Seng[1]
Editors    - Ali Javed
                 Aamir Khan

Khuda Ke Liye means in the name of god. what not have we done, this we is every human in this world, everyone is reason directly or indirectly to everything that is been done. If you see something that is not right, and if you dont protest, it is equal to supporting that act. that is how we are living. not supporting but allowing it to happen. Life is beautiful flower which we have got on this earth, but in the name of many things, mainly all ends up in god, we are ruining it, allowing it to decay. live and let live...

PERUMAZHAKAALAM (2004 - Malayalam movie)

Writer     - T.A.Razak
Director  -  Kamal (Kamaludin)
Producer -  Salim Padiyath
Starring   -  Meera Jasmine
                  Kavya Madhavan
                  Dileep
                  Vineeth
Music    -    M. Jayachandran
Cinematographer -      P. Sukumar
Editor   -      K. Rajagopal

I should tel that am really ashamed and feeling very bad while writing this, reason, I was searching for some posters are photos for this movie to upload here in the google, and what i found was not even a postcard size ones. This movies is parent movie for DOR a hindhi movie, and i found many articles and posters. but this movie, which is so good and wonderful has got really nowhere out than Kerala or nearby states. Dor is a good movie, but it is not as good as its parent.
Meera Jasmine and Kavya Madhavan, the lead ladies of this movie have given a different meaning to this movie. The writer and the directors should be appreciated for not deviating anywhere out of the track.
when are we going to learn to do what we are best at?

PERUMAZHAKAALAM

Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)

Director  -Woody Allen
Writer    - Woody Allen
Starring  - Rebecca Hall
                Scarlett Johansson
                Javier Bardem
                Penélope Cruz
Cinematography  - Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing                - Alisa Lepselter    

TRAILER

This movie is about a very well known subject for us love, relationship, men, women, sex and what not. Woody Allen, the director, has treated in style like the paintings in the movie. He has shown a typical life of our lives in a 96 minutes movie with required pace and motion. Barcelona has done its part in the hands of the director and cinematographer. Penélope Cruz in this movie is simply awesome in this movie.

AVAL APPADITHAAN (1978) Tamil movie

Directed  - C. Rudhraiya
Starring   - Sripriya
                 Kamal Hassan
                 Rajnikanth
Music   Ilayaraja

Aval Appadithaan taken way back in 1978 portrays the life of women in this modern world. The director has had his complete script ready and has known what he want on the screen. Rajinikant and Kamalahasan could have still made more movies like this and been a nice example for the future instead of concentrating in climbing the stardom. Sripriya has done wonderful justice to her role. What do you think about women liberation? (watch the movie to know it. you get the movie subtitle too)


CLICK HERE to have taste of the movie as trailer is not available.

MIRCH MASALA (1985 - Hindhi movie)

Directed  - Ketan Mehta
Written   - Chunilal Madia, Ketan Mehta, Shafi Hakim
Starring  - Smita Patil
                Om Puri
               Naseeruddin Shah
               Suresh Oberoi
               Deepti Naval
               Mohan Gokhale
Music     - Rajat Dholakia
Cinematography - Jehangir Choudhury

 Mirch Masala  is a movie that will always make me proud to be of the medium i love the most CINEMA. What else I should tell....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEJRzvYzviw&feature=related

Harishchandrachi Factory - Marathi (2009)

Director : Paresh Mokashi
Writer : Paresh Mokashi
Cinematography : Amalendu Choudary
Music : Anada Modak
Editing : Amit Pawar
Art Direction : Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Casting : Nandu Madhav
              Vibhawari Deshpande
              Atharva Karve
              Mohit Ghokale

I have been love with movies from the day I first knew it. Media in all forms have been my favourite, but Movies took the precedence, I would just watch a movie without food, sleep or anything. I was crazy enough to watch 100 movies in a year, all in theatres, when only 80 movies released that year, such was my madness along with my friend. He took the film line, where as I became an engineer. But all these days i have not even thought about who would have bought this to India and made it one of the biggest industry which is used to loot everyone, until I was introduced to Dhundiraj Govind Phalke by Syatchi. This man dreamed about something and now we are all watching it being one of the integral part of country and its future, though, i dont think he would have thought of this industry being used like this. When a man has a partner who understands his dream and the man understanding her role and respects each other and not controlling her, then any dream is not too big to achieve.
Anyways, leaving that aside, this movie about our father of Indian Film industry, is one master piece made by a man with vision. The movie has such pace and such screenplay, you will not even know that movie has over so soon. I would recommend everyone to show their kids this movie, so from here on their movie taste gets developed and they atleast know what a movie is all about.

Natrang - Marathi (2010)

Director: Ravi Jadhav
Writers: Ravi Jadhav
             Dr.Anand Yadav
Music : Ajay
            Atul
Cinematography: Mahesh Limaye
Editing: Jayant Jathar
Casting : Atkul Kulkarni
              Sonalee Kulkarni
              Kishore Kadam

This is the second Marathi movie am watching. This movie has a simple storyline with practical screenplay. Even though we all tell that, we respect artists, we have to question ourselves asking what type of artists do we respect? Will you respect an artist like the leading role of this movie. What is that we expect of artists? just entertainment? Art is a powerful medium, it has all emotions, and art is born from person who has passion to live and not just to exist.

Mandi - Hindi(1983)

Director : Shyam Benegal

Writers : Ghulam Abbas, Shyam Benegal

Starring : Shabana Azmi
               Naseerudin Shah
               Smita Patil



               Amrish Puri
               Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Music : Vanraj Bhatia




I have heard about Shyam Benegal very recently, and have not watched any of his movies. Mandi, was the first of his movie that am watching. In 983, a man has made a movie with such intensity and such concern. But, people of my nation are people of my nation, they have proved what he had tried to portrait about future. Yet another movie which was just celebrated as movie.

love sex aur dhokha (2010)

Director :  Dibakar Banerjee

Story: This movie has 3 stories. you can get to know the connections as movie progresses. the role of cameras in our lives can be known with some solid truths and  ultimate facts.

Vedam (Telugu 2010)

Director :  Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi (Krish)

this place had been quite empty and no activity has been happening here. but today i had to update this place with some movies that i have watched in local languages in my southern part of India

Story: This movie is about 5 different types of people, their life style, their needs, happiness, sorrow, thinking, actions, reactions and everything at a point of time. this movie is a mile stone in Telugu film industry and indian cinema as a whole.

always go to the movie, and wait for the director to plot the knots and remove it himself. this movie has a gripping screenplay which takes over everything. a must watch.

Love in a Weekend (a) amor en Fin (2008 Mexican movie)

Director : Salvador Aguirre

This movie is about three couple in love during a weekend before an election. It just displays the happenings elegantly and simply during that particular weekend.
it has 3 types of life running parallely. one of a lower middle class youth couple, a old couple and a upper class couple... movie will show our states in our own states....

diary of a nymphomaniac (a) diary of a sex addict

You can get the crew details here.

Diario de una ninfómana (2008) is a movie about a lady in Barcelona who loves experimenting sex and is never satisfied with what she wants. The plot is all about her experiments and what happens. The importance of the movie, you will know once you see it.

Be With me (2005 Singapore movie)

Director : Eric Khoo
Writing  :  Theresa Poh Lin Chan (inspiration)
                Eric Khoo and Kim Hoh Wong (screenplay)
Music    : Kevin Mathews and Christine Sham
Cinematography : Adrian Tan
Editing : Low Hwee-Ling
Art Direction : Shaun Koh

Yet another movie about love. The movie begins with hands typing on the type writer,
'Is true love there truly, my love?
yes, if your warm heart is.'

The movie ends with the hand tyiping on the type writer,
'Be with me, my beloved love,
that my smile may not fade'

It is about 4 loves that happens. It is a story inspired by Theres Poh Lin Chan's life. Simple movie, but gives great inspiration for people, when you feel gloomy. Somewhere i read that, you need great strength to win and with stand and you will need more to let things go. Theresa Poh Lin Chan has really made a mark, with her will power, Where there is a will there is a way.

Theresa Poh Lin Chan

At times it just needs things ti let go and wait patiently. Rest is Chaos, that happens to settled down with the best for all. When you feel love everything is fine, when you try finding meaning, n confining it with things you have known n told, then love never exists...

Okuribito (a) Departures (2008 Japnese movie)

Director              : Yōjirō Takita

Writter               :  Kundo Koyama
Music                 : Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography : Takeshi Hamada
Editing                : Akimasa Kawashima

This weekend it was another good movie. This movie is about a Cello player who loses his job and then finally ends up in job at Encoffinment agency. The movie travels, over peoples departures, showing different emotions. It surely will give you a look about death. Even though you might be able to expect/judge some future scenes, but that is how it can/would be. Movies like this are must watch to know our life, i guess.

Beautiful (2008 South Korean movie)

Director   : Jeon Jae-hong
Producer : Kim Ki-duk
                Jo Seong-gyu
Writter    : Jeon Jae-hong (screenplay)
                 Kim Ki-duk (original story)
Music     : No Hyeong-u
Cinematography : Kim Ki-tae
Editing     : Jeon Jae-hong

It is really been long time since i updated this blog. but it also is because i dint have a really good seeing experience. I did wanted to write reviews about movies like Avatar, Precious, Invictus etc... but time was a factor following my laziness. anyways, this weekend was really good.

Beautiful, is a South korean movie releases in 2008, Produced and written by the famous Kim-Ki-Duk. It is movie revolving around a girl who is really gorgeous and beautiful. the word beautiful, how it takes toll on this gals lie is the movie about. For me it gave really a different view on the word 'Beautiful'.

I dont like to write spoilers, and also give a very high expectations on movie before you watch. So. just watch it and feel it in your own way.

Elia SULEIMAN's The time That Remains

Elia SULEIMAN - Director
Elia SULEIMAN - Screenplay
Marc-André BATIGNE - Cinematography
Sharif WAKED - Set Designer
Véronique LANGE - Film Editor
Christian MONHEIM - Sound
Pierre MERTENS - Sound
 

Palestine issue summary : Before watching the movie or reading the story, it would be advisable to know a bit of history behind this issue, it would give you more of insight on what the director has had on his mind while creating each of the scenes. Below are few sights where you can know the history....

---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Southern_Levant#State_of_Israel:_1948_to_present

Story: The movie is about Palestine from 1948. The movie beautifully captures the move of time and the way people gets adopted to it, very beautifully. The movie follows a family from the time of 1948. The movie flows thorugh the time that passes by. Each and every shots placed here will be so wonderful that you cnat resist laughing at the same time think what a situation people are living at.

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authors note: from this post I have decided not to tell the whole story and spoil your view. so just will give the abstract story of the movie and what i liked in it.