20 March, 2011

Khuda Gawah (1993)

Starring:
Amitabh Bachchan … Baadshah Khan
Sridevi … Benazir/Mehndi
Nagarjuna Akkineni … Insp. Raja Mirza (as Nagarjuna)
Shilpa Shirodkar … Insp. Henna Ranveer Sethi
Kiran Kumar … Pasha
Danny Denzongpa … Khuda Baksh
Anjana Mumtaz … Salma Mirza
Beena Banerjee … Laxmi Sethi (as Beena)
Vikram Gokhale … Jailer Ranveer Singh Sethi
Bharat Kapoor … Insp. Aziz Mirza
Shammi … Khuda Baksh’s mother

Director: Mukul Anand

19 March, 2011

Congo (1995)

Starring:
Laura Linney
Dylan Walsh
Ernie Hudson
Tim Curry

Director: Frank Marshall

Weapon of War Confessions of Rape in Congo (2009)

Which way home ? (2009)

15 March, 2011

The Bridge (2006)

Synopsis:
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material.

Death Water (2006)

AKA:
Mizuchi >> Japanese

Synopsis:
Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word "Death Water" written on it. Nearby are blood-stained scissors, and his eyes are squashed. She has no idea that this death is just the beginning of a horrendous nightmare.

Aasma The Sky is The Limit (2009)

Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)

Synopsis:
Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving a bloody trail of corpses. Murdoch runs, instructing his staff to clean up. They keep failing and being eaten like unsuspecting locals, some alive, even after enlisting ruthless big game hunter Hammett. The fast-growing pregnant monster sheds its skin, thus disabling the only tracking device.

Control (2007)

Synopsis:
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23. Sam Riley in leading role.

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

Synopsis:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.

A Lizard in a woman's Skin ()

Chicken Skin ()

Synopsis:
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy.

Painted Skin (2008)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Synopsis:
One can't remember. The other can't forget....A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Under The Skin (1997)

Synopsis:
One of the best movies I've seen in awhile... A very interesting film, with a brave, stunning, sexual performance by Samantha Morton.
The sexuality was real and intense, and her desperation as a woman spinning out of control was effective and touching...
I liked the "out there" eroticism aspect of the film. True eroticism is not portrayed well in movies anymore, at least not in the US...
And I liked the fact that the film was written and directed by a woman, Carine Adler. The scene where she has phone sex with her lover and tells him what she wants to do to him is stunning, only a woman could have written that! A man would have shied away from depicting a woman's sexuality in such a frank and aggressive manner.