Could watch two films only recently (thanks to Youtube) and felt I have to share with all film enthusiasts. Z by Costa Gavras is an edge of the seat political thriller. What matters is that it’s a Director’s Film. It is slick and stylish and conveys a stark mood of corruption, depravity, cold-blooded harshness and falsehood. Amidst…
I watched John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln” starring Henry Fonda. The movie carries that distinctive stamp of John Ford’s genius. Young Mr. Lincoln is the story of Abraham Lincoln in his young years practicing as an advocate in a Country Court. Ford achieves the aura and the mood of those days when life was more…
The first novel that comes to mind is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. The other novels are again of Marquez; Love in the time of Cholera, No one writes to the Colonel, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a death foretold. Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum…
Onibaba is an erotic horror story. It is about an old woman and her daughter-in-law living on the fringes of life, hunting down soldiers returning from the battle or killing embittered and emaciated warriors. They stash away the belongings of those who they kill to sell it to a local merchant who gives them sake…