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Category Archives: Movies
Movie Review: Stranger than Fiction
Can a demonstration of the universal conflict between comedy and tragedy make for an entertaining movie? Stranger than Fiction is exactly that and yet, essentially experimental as it is, it makes for a surprisingly entertaining, even riveting, narrative. The major … Continue reading
Movie Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
I’d like to get this out of the way at the outset: Kingsman is a fantasy—a very much masculine one at that—and conjures a world that, arguably, only ever existed in the (possibly male) imagination. And I am well aware … Continue reading
Notes on Literature and Movies: The Time Travel Motif in Movies and Popular Fiction
The other day I happened to be watching The Time Traveller’s Wife on TV. It got me thinking about the myriad creative forms in which the time travel motif has been made use of in movies and popular fiction. Off the top … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies, Notes on Literature, Notes on Movies
Tagged All You Zombies, Back to the Future, Bill Murray, Christopher Lloyd, Doc Brown, Dr. Manhattan, Fantasy, Groundhog Day, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, It happened in Boston?, Marty McFly, Meet the Robinsons, Michael Crichton, Michael J. Fox, Multiverse, Planet of the Apes, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics, Quantum Theory, Robert Anson Heinlein, Science Fiction, SF, SF&F, Source Code, Sphere, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, The Lake House, The Shining, The Time Traveller's Wife, Time Travel, Timeline, Watchmen
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Notes on Movies: Source Code: A Garden of Forking Paths
The reason Source Code works for me while a movie like Deja Vu doesn’t is because it’s drawn using clean straight lines with the kind of geometric precision and simplicity that Borges’s stories are known for. Unlike Deja Vu, it doesn’t weigh … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Notes on Movies
Tagged Borges, Deja Vu, Groundhog Day, Source Code, The Garden of Forking Paths
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Notes on Movies: The Film Club: An Imaginary Review à la Borges
I haven’t read The Film Club. Just browsed through it during my last visit to the bookshop. The first paragraph is fact. The second paragraph is mostly about what I think the book should be like. Rather, it’s about what … Continue reading
Movie Review: The King’s Speech
2001. An 11th grader stands in front of his class. In his hands he holds a piece of paper from which he is supposed to read out a hand written essay on Achilles. Try hard as he may, not a … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Review, Movies, Music, Reminiscences
Tagged Beethoven, Beethoven's 7th, Beethoven's 7th Symphony, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Classical Music, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, King George VI, Lionel Logue, Marriage of Figaro, Mozart, The King's Speech, Tom Hooper
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Musings: Voices
Little, Big is filled with haunting voices; Before Sunrise is one long conversation; Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita probably has the most talkative narrative voice in literature – three details that mean so much to me now, that would have … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies, Musings
Tagged A. S. Byatt, Agatha, Alberto Manguel, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Fadiman, Before Sunrise, Isaac Asimov, Italo Calvino, John Crowley, Jorge Luis Borges, Little Big, Michael Crichton, Michael Dirda, Mikhail Bulgakov, Orhan Pamuk, The Master and Margarita, Umberto Eco
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