Yes, you’re right. That’s one of the things it is used to illustrate, the contrast between Giamatti’s Pinot Noir personality and the Cabernet character. He even gives a little speech on it. But it also represents his failure and his dependency, as in one of the final scenes where he’s at the fast food place, eating a burger and onion rings, drinking wine out of a soft drink cup.

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Saw Million Dollar Baby last night. Hillary Swank, sher ki bachchi, is a heartbreaker.

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Re#23
’’alcohol works as a metaphor ’’

you got it ass backwards.. alcohol wasNOT supposed to be the metaphor. it was PinotNoir vs. Caberenet.

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i liked sideways. it was kinda like seeing a whole lot of ppl i know - just older and more... deadened. i enjoyed it.

revathi isnt ok with it. he tells he’s going some place and says goodbye. but then she sees him talking to the doc and all hell breaks loose. she accuses him of cheating on her and he finally tells her about anjali.

there should be copies with subtitles coz i heard how tamil movies are huge in japan and they cant expect the japanese to know tamil. i mean, they’re chauvinists but not to that extent surely!!!

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I remember watching Anjali. That little girl who played the handicapped child performed so well. I wish they had all these films with subtitles. The dubbing tends to take the edge off. Yuva was lame. Some individual scenes were good, like Vivek Oberoi and Kareena Kapoor riding up and down in the trams, but the overall it just didn’t gel. Wanted to watch Kannathil Muttamithal. Did you guys see Iruvar and Indira?

Saw Sideways last night. Depressing but very well done. The crises and the deceptions are really well-presented and the alcohol works as a metaphor both for the character’s imagination as well as his dependency and failure. It’s a nice film, in a disenchanting sort of way. Be prepared to sit through an agonising first thirty minutes or so.


Amrita: Maybe you can explain something to me; I never understood why Revathi, when she finds out her husband was seeing another woman(before she finds out about Anjali) is so OK with it. By way of explanation, he just whispered something to her and she smiled and that was it. What did her husband tell her?

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Yes, I have. But my fav remains Nayakan - which was the very first mani movie i ever saw.

Dil Se was a Hindi/SRK aberration - yech. the only good thing that came out it was the music. and even that wasnt rahman’s best. But Yuva was okay - in parts.

but he made this other movie a year or two back called Kannathil Muttamitthal - dont even try to pronounce it - which was about this Tamil couple who adopt a little sri lankan girl and when she’s about 12 or so she finds out and wants to find her birth mother [nandita das as a terrorist]. No one in India today can touch Mani for the kind of performances he coaxes out of kids.

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Amrita,
Have u seen Mouna Ragam? I wonder what happened to Mani down the line to make such trash as Dil Se.

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i just saw Mani Ratnam’s Anjali again after god only knows how long. Damn i’d forgotten what a good movie it was. wept buckets.

I’m now thinking of making my way thru all of them - starting with Nayakan, i remember that ’’good guy bad guy’’ dialogue. brrr.

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Thanks for all the names guys. Lemme put in a word for Tea with Mussolini.Lovely movie, Cher is elemental .Cher and Tabu remind me of each other.
abskii, what kinda movies do u like?

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temporal:
yea raise the red lantern is on my to-watch list. i ll look up the other you mentioned . thanks. there is this taiwanese guy i forgot his name, he came up recently with this movie ’’what time is it there’’, his work i followed in the past... Wong-Kar Wai is the other one .. he pretty much changed everything with his ’’in the mood for love ’’ .. his framing, the way he speed the framerate up and down in a sequence, his use of camera as the roving eye and the way he spins it to creat multiple layers... man, i can go on he is soo goodl.. sofia koppola did alot of kar-wai-esque schtick in her lost in translation...

enuff bs for now.
later.

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re # 14 here you go

http://www.zdag.com/movieDisplay.jsp?movieID=5273
htt p://www.zdag.com/movieDisplay.jsp?movieID=5456

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R-D:

and there some excellent other-worlders...the chinese director-actress team of gong-li and yimou zhang

* Ju Dou
* Raise the Red Lantern

then there are other european little know gems

*hairdresser’s husband
*manon of the spring and jeane de fleurette
(and he did another sequel too)

the original vanishing ( not the hollywood remake)

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temporal:
actually i got a whole thread dedicated to Red down here... White was good too.. i was distracted when i was watching it.. i remember that gorgeous bride-sequence that was done in a loop like three times...each time with a subtle frame shift...god that was so awesome!
.. i have to check this movie again..

for greenaway - i am just beginning to dicover these other guys that were not as big as icons as Felini, Bergman, Godard, Kurosawa, Antonioni were... back in the day... One is Greenaway.. the other is Rohmer..

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well neither is avail in J Heights nor on Lex

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i have a developing intrest in bollywood movies, and will treat myself to one after a hard day at work.

A couple of weeks ago, after a particularly distressing day, i watched ’Devdas’. I wish somone had warned me about the damn ending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can anyone reccomend any other classics???

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shobhayatra is good. Anything based on Marathi stage plays usually cannot go wrong.

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saw Kung Fu Hustle. It’s a blast.
re #10 recall seeing Morning Raga in my local desi video/dvd place... it’s there on dvd.

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