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| Chakra |
Posted
on 08-Oct-01 05:50 PM
I did not expect to talk about movies, after my recommendation of Little Buddha in the name of peace in time of terror. I prcatice, go with the flow sometimes and I enjoyed everyone's comments. Here are some of my all time favorite movies, which I am going to break into four categories and the ten best:
Category 1 (Action/Drama)
1. Schindler's List
2. The Godfather
3. Star Wars
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Ben- Hur
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Goodfellas
8. Pulp-fiction
9. Desperado
10. The Silence of the Lambs.
Category 2 (Religious/Eastern)
1. Little Buddha
2. Gandhi
3. The Golden Child
4. Kundun
5. It's a Wonderful Life
6. City of Joy
7. Seven years in Tibet
8. The Last emperor
9. The Empre of the Sun
10. The Ten Commandments
Category 3 (Comedy)
1. The Party
2. When Harry met Sally
3. See No Evil and Hear no Evil
4. (Mel Brooke's) The History of the World.
5. Arizona
6. Friday
7. Trading Place
8. Wayne's World
9. Mrs. Doubtfire
10. Something about Mary.
Category 4 (Romance/Love)
1. Rome and Juliet
2. The Professional
3. Ghost
4. Some Kind of Wonerful
5. Say Anything
6. City of Angels
7. Mission Impossilbe II
8. While You Were Sleeping
9. Pretty Woman
10. Sense and Sensibilty
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 08-Oct-01 08:01 PM
It could not be complete without "Maximus".
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| oohi_ashu |
Posted
on 08-Oct-01 08:57 PM
Here are some of the movies I have enjoyed seeing again and agan, some for the story, some for their new techniques and so on and so forth.
Chariots of Fire
Cinema Paradiso (Italian with subtitles)
Get Shorty
Fargo
Apocalypse Now
A streetcar named desire
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Fabulous Baker Boys
Donnie Brascoe
Chasing Amy
Good Will Hunting
I wish someone would start a small/medium movie-theater in Kathmandu just to show latest movies outside of India and Nepal.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 08-Oct-01 11:53 PM
Ashu, I have enjoyed all the movies, except first two that you've mentioned, which I have not seen. I was a fan of Quentin Tarrentin, who made Pulp-fiction, Reservoir dogs, and co-made From Dusk till Dawn with Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez made Desperado and El Mariachi. After these directors/writers, I wanted to make a movie myself.
First thing for me to do was to write a script. I wrote a script in a novel format, after six months, I published the novel "Order and Justice" locally in a State in 1996. Technically, I am the first writer to get published in the US, and I have a copyright file to Library of Congress. I can obtain that file from the Library of Congress if need to be proved. I am keeping a low profile till I publish another work in a big scale.
Anyway, I wanted to make "Order and Justice" into a movie, but it would be so costly to do, I had to put it off. Anyway, I don't want to go too much in deep, other than talk about some of these movies.
Marlon Brandon is one of my favorite actors, who starred in Streetcar named Desire, (which I had to watch for an English class in high school) and Apocolypse Now. Stella, Stella ...
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 12:03 AM
Correction:
Technically, I was the first Nepali origin writer in the US, instead of first writer in the US.
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 12:20 AM
Most of the Ashu's selection (except Cinema Paradiso) mirror my own choice ,
eventhough they don't feature in my top 10. Among Chakra's , action movies
are real great. I can vouchsafe that nobody will regret watching these movies.
[Chariot of Fire ,btw, is the best Acadamy award winner picture, made on the
story of one Jewish Olympic athlete of Cambridge University, who uses all his
resources and diligence to win the game.A real good movie! I think it is an English
movie, not a Hollywood movie.]
I consider Patton an quintessential action movie. I was impressed from its first
scene. George Scott(General Patton) gives his first speech to his army:
"No son of bitches ever won the battle by dying for his country. You win the
battle by making other son of bitches die for THEIR country."
America seems to be following that motto now. Btw, Patton also features in
AFI top 100.
Also,One Marlon Brando unforgettable is the controversial "On the waterfront. I
think Elia Kazan, who was reviled by his contemporaries for revealing his comrade's
name in house committee in McCarthyism era and who was later in controversy
while receiving special Acadamy award two years ago, made this to get even
with labor unionists.
Btw, those interested in McCarthy era persecution of artists can watch Roberto
Deniro classic "Guilty of Suspicion".
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I believe that recommending good movies to our readers can save their precious
time while roaming around Blockbuster. I always find such recommendation in
reliable sites useful while renting movies.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 02:02 AM
Hi Chakra,
If you liked "A streetcar named desire", then you MUST see this Spanish movie "All About My Mother", which beat out Nepal-made "Caravan" to win at the Oscars
a couple of years ago.
Director Pedro Almodovar skilfully uses references to ASND as a backdrop to unfold his "all about my mother" story . . .i.e. how a part in the ASND
drama -- 20 years ago --changes the life of the lead character in Barcelona.
Yes, Stella, Stella!!
Though some of my Spanish friends are offended that I like Almodovar, I like the way he finds kitschy "fringe elements" to play lead roles in his movies, and I also like the way he pays homage to Hollywood by way of subtle references, and sly
overtures.
Some other Almodovar movies I have enjoyed are:
Live flesh
Tie me up, tie me down
Women on the verge of nervous breakdown
Carmen Maura (then) and Penelope Cruz (now) are to Spanish movies what Gong Li is to Chinese movies: smart, sexy and endearingly self-possesive.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 06:40 AM
Biswo,
Good that our taste in movies is similar.
Chakra, I wish you all the best with your script-writing/movie-making
ambitions.
Meantime, let me share this about 'Chariots of Fire': (from amazon.com)
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The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration.
The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism.
There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesized score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson
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Other films I have enjoyed watching are:
Glengarry Glenn Ross
Usual suspects
Edward Scissorhand
Damage
Dead Ringers
oohi
ashu
ktm, nepal
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 08:45 AM
Biswo, I had forgotten about On the Waterfront, which I saw a long time ago. I enjoyed Marlon's great performance in that movie. Have you seen scarface? Al gives his great performance.
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| Sunakhari |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 09:34 AM
Has anyone seen "Indochine"??
That is a movie I would recommend as well. They must have it with English Subtitles. Check out the Alliance Francaise.
Cheers
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 12:53 PM
Sunakhariji, no I have not seen Indochine. What is it about? Eat Drink Man Woman is also a pretty good movie. It is about Chinese people's life in the US. Another pretty good one is American Desi, which is about Indian people, actually, about a young Indian person's love story, who grew up in the US and falls in love with another Indian woman.
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| Chakra |
Posted
on 09-Oct-01 03:45 PM
Here are four Classic Nepali Movies Worth Seeing.
1. Paral Ko Ago (good story)
2. Sindur (good story)
3. Jeevan Rekha (good story, good acting)
4. Basudev (good story, great acting)
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