noir films
Reinforcement is being right. – BF Skinner. Traditional language teaching methods are slowly evolving in order to blend with current learners’ environment. As consequences, curricula are being altered and are customized to be attuned to the breakthroughs of technology. Combining media forms as springboards with the aid of multi-media tools yield the possibilities of technological
The millennium is the rise of adaptations. Film adaptation is a type of derivative work where a written work is transferred in part or in whole to a feature film. As an original story takes long to develop, it usually takes just 3 months to adapt a novel to a screenplay. Adaptations offer an easy […]
What is creditable while watching the sequence in Sholay is all eyes automatically focus on A K Hangal in spite of all the stars being present. It is Hangal Saab who has been instrumental in grabbing viewer’s attention in ‘Itna sannata kyon hai bhai’. On one side we celebrated the centenary year of Indian Cinema […]
Cult films are not usually the first place you go when you’re choosing a movie for a date night. You’ve got yourself pretty covered with a nice romantic comedy, or you could really amp up the class with a nice foreign film. But going right to final jeopardy with a cult film for a date […]
Flash Back.. రెండువేల పదమూడు, నవంబర్ పదమూడు , ఇదే రోజు నేను మా శీష్ మహల్ young rebel team చాలా బిజీ గ ఉన్నాం . అందరం చిత్రలేఖ స్టూడియో లో gather అయ్యాం , ఈ స్టూడియో అజిత్ నాగ్ అనే friend ది. అంత మంది కలవటానికి మాకు ప్లేస్ లేదు , ఇండిపెండెంట్ సినిమా కి ఉన్న గొప్ప quality “అన్ని మనవే అందరూ మనోళ్ళే “ అనే నమ్మకాన్ని […]
If we don’t tell our own stories, no one else will – Mira. ఎంత సింపుల్గా చెప్పావు మీరా , అందుకే నువ్వంటే ప్రేమ Nothing is more powerful than seeing your own language,your own color,your own people,your own dramas on screen – Mira Nair ఇలాంటి మాటలు చెప్పి ఉత్తేజపరుస్తావు చూడు అందుకే నువ్వంటే పిచ్చి ప్రేమ. నేను చూసిన మీరా సినిమాలు […]
It’s A Wonderful Life – Frank Capra’s gift to the world. Frank Capra’s 1946 Masterpiece, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, has rightly gone down in film history as one of the greatest feel good movies of all time. From its humble beginnings as a short story, ‘The Greatest Gift’, which its author Philip Van Doren Stern […]
The Quiet Man No one ever said that film-making was easy, only that it could be very good and sometimes enduring, as in “The Quiet Man”, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara with legendary Director John Ford. Like a lot of great films, this is a story of the conflict and conquest in the […]
For fans of the Film Noir genre, including myself, there is little doubt that the 1940’s produced a wealth of noir directed by many of the greatest film noir directors in the genres history. It was these early noir efforts that would take the genre well into the 1950’s. The success of the following directors […]
The Message (1977) Director: Moustapha Akkad Cast: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas and Michael Ansara This movie raised a lot of controversy while being made and after being released. Director Mustafa Akkad had to hire 4-5 Islamic clergymen to make it correctly. In the end movie came out as a definite winner. Personally, I don’t […]