I watched the movie Silas Marner starring Ben Kingsley. It made me reflect about the novel by George Eliot that I had read long ago. George Eliot’s simple story of a lost and found treasure which had been robbed from Silas Marner is a profound and moving tale about the humanism and honesty of the…
The Revenant is about one man’s (Glass) resolve to seek revenge.He is the Revenant,the man who has returned from the Dead. The Dead have no words to speak and the living speak falsehood.The Revenant are the bridge between these two worlds. They have to straddle both these worlds. They must ensure justice for the Dead…
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…
Watched the movie Salon Mexico; a B&W Mexican film. Shorn of melodrama or exaggerated display of emotion, the film tells the story of two sisters Mercedes and Beatriz. All alone in this world and fighting poverty, Mercedes’ only aim in life is to give Beatriz a proper education and see her lead a comfortable and…
Films and Literature are largely about a narrative. It is about telling a story. Both make use of characters, plot, incidents, action, drama and the general function of entertaining the readers or the audience. Films have the arduous task of crunching the narrative into a span of 90 or 120 minutes. Literature on the other…
Dersu Ouzala, M, Battleship Potemkin, Yojimbo, Sansho the Bailiff, Aguirre the wrath of God, The Magnificent Seven, High Noon, Stage coach, Nazarin, La Strada, Bicycle Thieves, This Man must Die, Just before nightfall, 39 Steps, Psycho, The Day of the Jackal, Odessa file,The Medusa Touch, Django, Aparajito, Harakiri, The Third Shadow, The Maltese falcon, Casablanca,…
Never watched Werner Herzog’s films before. Watched Aguirre, the wrath of God today. In search of El Dorado, a group of Spanish explorers voyage into the Jungle beyond the Andes along with their slaves. Unable to venture further in the inhospitable terrain, the commander appoints a smaller group of 40 members to go further on…
A novel is called a pocket theatre. It leaves so much to the imagination which is why it has to be the better. However there are certain kinds of novels which are enriched when portrayed in the visual medium; the historical, the mythological, the adventurous or the romantic. Reading a novel is a more personal…