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Aug. 30th, 2004 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexeyehad a pretty good weekend. my day off was fantastic, though it was pretty uneventful. since saturday was nasty and chilly, we stayed in for the most part, read and watched movies until the evening, when we went to see the manchurian candidate, and met up with some of the boy's friends for tapas at cafe ibirico. sunday was pretty uneventful as well - more movies, cleaning house, and mel came over for dinner and starship troopers
movies.
the terrorist - an indian "art" film about a suicide bomber from the southern state of tamil. a very quiet film, dealing with the young woman in her final days of preparation for the assassination of an indian VIP. the photography is especially beautiful - lush jungle shots and lots of water imagery. highly recommended.
the manchurian candidate (the remake) - i was going to boycott this, due to my distaste at remaking such a classic (the original is one of my favorite films), but i've been reading some interesting reviews, so i thought i'd check it out after all. not entirely successful, sloppy in some of the plot details and development of the central ideas, but overall rather thought-provoking and a decent update of impossibly dated source material. all of the leads were very good, though the boy and i both thought streep was a bit over-the-top. definitely provokes conversation.
gandhi - man, i hadn't seen this in AGES. thought i'd revisit it now that i know a bit more about historical detail. extremely biased and, in many ways, narrow-minded, but how could you make a movie about gandhi without deifying him, often at the expense of his contemporaries? i've got to get my hands on rushdie's essay about the film in imaginary homelands.
still at home, ready to watch - victim (yay, dirk bogarde!), showboy, mr. india, and amores perros
movies.
the terrorist - an indian "art" film about a suicide bomber from the southern state of tamil. a very quiet film, dealing with the young woman in her final days of preparation for the assassination of an indian VIP. the photography is especially beautiful - lush jungle shots and lots of water imagery. highly recommended.
the manchurian candidate (the remake) - i was going to boycott this, due to my distaste at remaking such a classic (the original is one of my favorite films), but i've been reading some interesting reviews, so i thought i'd check it out after all. not entirely successful, sloppy in some of the plot details and development of the central ideas, but overall rather thought-provoking and a decent update of impossibly dated source material. all of the leads were very good, though the boy and i both thought streep was a bit over-the-top. definitely provokes conversation.
gandhi - man, i hadn't seen this in AGES. thought i'd revisit it now that i know a bit more about historical detail. extremely biased and, in many ways, narrow-minded, but how could you make a movie about gandhi without deifying him, often at the expense of his contemporaries? i've got to get my hands on rushdie's essay about the film in imaginary homelands.
still at home, ready to watch - victim (yay, dirk bogarde!), showboy, mr. india, and amores perros
