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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#1
Health Disclaimer:This video be watched before reading down below.
Many of us, who have fled to this country have (re)discovered our passion for "good" cinema
and "good" food, intensity of that passion got reduced on our pursuit to professional and social developments, while we were in the sub-continent. Adherence to "good" art and "good" food (and may I add beverages as well) is our passport stamp of being elegant. Some might not be willing to confer on this, and those who won't, will be under the Sword of Damocles of being called non-elegant.
Snobbery is good and it works wonders as it injects a humongous sense of self-empowerment within.
And this be told, the purpose of sharing the video-link above, was to trigger on the feeling of elegant-ness(throw out the word "elegance", its too short to convey the enormity within).
Thus ends my Prologue.
The purpose of penning down this Blog is tad bit different. I am badly seeking for recommendations for watchable movies, that got released post 2009. I am tending to believe many of you are Netflix,Redbox, Internet (devouring youtube specifically) users who hook onto movie channels at the slightest opportunity. Some of you are festival-goers and come across many avant garde movies. There are some, who would have had put premium on entertainment value rather than anything else. So what's your List of recommendations? Here's my mine and this is why I recommend.
Hollywood
Inception (Director:-Christopher Nolan, Lead Actor-Leonardo di Caprio):-Its a movie based on dreams. The convention did not have much to play here. This is no good versus evil plot, there is no mission to be accomplished, there is no villain, no hero, no lost-love to be found out. Serious philosophers might find this one, as a trite talk on dreams.
Inglourious Basterds(Director: Quentin Tarantino):-Fictionalized history on World War II. Taut screenplay. Hitler gets murdered by the side-kicks in the movie.
The Ghostwriter(Director:Roman Polanski) :Fictionalized history. British PM, out of office, finds himself, assassinated. Best thriller I had seen in recent times.
Bengali Movies
Shukno Lanka(Mithun Chakraborty in the lead): A Bengali movie made with an universal appeal, that can cut across the board, irrespective of financial, social, rural, urban,professional status. Bengali movies are not known to be made of this kind, the only other instant I can think of is Goopy-Gyne Bagha-Byne. It has its own share of technical and non-technical flaws, condition yourself to overlook them.
Hindi Movie
None I can think of recommending. A close miss would be Rock On(Farhan Akhtar in lead) (just for intelligent production design).
Foreign Movies
The White Ribbon(German movie that won in Cannes 2009, for the best film):-A dramma movie, set in a village, just before World War I. I liked it because, it did not boldly underline the drammatic moments in the movie with background score accents. Actually, no background score at all.
A month back, I watched a south-Korean movie at the South-Asian Minneapolis Film Festival, "Poetry" which had used the same technique of no background score. Guess, that is the order of the day.
