Revisiting The Classics – ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Trilogy
Has it truly been more than two decades since the first chapter of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ first thundered across the screen? ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001) was easily […]
20 Years of ‘Devdas’ (2002)
‘Devdas’ for the uninitiated, is based on the literary work of the legendary Bengali author Mr Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Legend says that he never wanted this book to get published […]
Revisiting The Classics – Oliver Stone’s ‘Natural Born Killers’ (1994)
More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
Revisiting The Classics – Alan J Pakula’s ‘All the President’s Men’ (1976)
Robert Redford, always a political activist, bought the rights to the book written by the two reporters who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. He knew in his gut […]
Revisiting The Classics – Sidney Lumet’s ‘Network’ (1976)
Sidney Lumet’s lacerating black comedy, ‘Network’, which is also a cautionary film about the power of television seemed to see far into the future with blistering clarity, exploring how reality […]
Revisiting The Classics – Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ (1974)
The old fashioned credits begin and over them we hear solemn music, then a solitary horn, lonely and mournful, foreshadowing what J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will feel by the end […]
Revisiting The Classics – Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’ (1990)
Sitting down to explore the finest films directed by Martin Scorsese, most might think his seething black and white boxing biography ‘Raging Bull’ (1980) might top the list. Visceral, bloody, […]
Revisiting The Classics – Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1960)
Do film buffs truly understand just what a groundbreaking film Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying ‘Psycho’ was? This was a monumental film, breaking fresh ground for a tried and true genre, and […]
Revisiting The Classics : Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ (1975)
I had just turned sixteen the first time I saw ‘Jaws’ (1975) not knowing the film and work of the director would alter the course of my life. The film […]
Revisiting The Classics : Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Bridges Of Madison County’ (1995)
When Clint Eastwood stepped in to direct the film, there were bowls of protest. Bruce Beresford and Steven Spielberg both toyed with directing the picture, Beresford going so far as […]
Revisiting The Classics : Mike Nichols’s ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ (1966)
There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway. They are ‘Death of […]
Revisiting The Classics : Billy Wilder’s ‘Ace In The Hole’ (1951)
Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place […]
Revisiting The Classics : Elia Kazan’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)
When Tennessee Williams wrote ‘The Glass Menagerie’, he drew heavily on his own life, his past and the result was the birth of the neorealistic American theatre. ‘A Streetcar Named […]
Revisiting The Classics : Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation Of Christ’ (1988)
The first time I screened this film was the second day of its run at the Carlton Cinemas, an Art house theatre in downtown Toronto. Sherri and I braved the […]
The Cinemawala 