Tuesday, March 15, 2011

All Time Best English Movies(Action & Thriller)

1. The Bourne Identity (2002)

Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by
fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such
as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes
off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.
Cast
  Matt Damon  ...  Jason Bourne 
  Franka Potente  ...  Marie 
  Chris Cooper  ...  Conklin 
  Clive Owen  ...  The Professor 
  Brian Cox  ...  Ward Abbott 
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje  ...  Wombosi 
  Gabriel Mann  ...  Zorn 
  Walton Goggins  ...  Research Tech 
  Josh Hamilton  ...  Research Tech 
  Julia Stiles  ...  Nicolette 
  Orso Maria Guerrini  ...  Giancarlo (as Orso Maria-Guerrini) 
  Tim Dutton  ...  Eamon 
  Denis Braccini  ...  Picot 
  Nicky Naude  ...  Castel 
  David Selburg  ...  Marshall 

Monday, March 14, 2011

All Time Best Bengali Movies(Comedy)

1. Mohunbaganer Meye (1976)

B&W. 35mm.
Producers- Kalimata Productions
Story Writer- bahurupee
Script Writer- Salil Sen
Director- Manu Sen
Photography- Manish Dasgupta
Editor- Dulal Dutta
Lyrics- Pulak bandopadhyay, Shibdas Bandopadhyay Mus- Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Playback- Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Haimanti Shukla, Anup Ghoshal
Cast
Rajasree Bose,
Dipankar Dey,
Utpal Dutta,
Rabi Ghosh,
Sobha Sen,
Jahar Ray,
Tarun Kumar,
Chinmoy Ray,
Nripati Chattopadhyay,
Ruby Dutta,
Bhanu Bandopadhyay,
Madhumita,
Subrato Sensharma
Distributors- G.S. Film Distributors
Released on 16.4.76 at Sree, Indira
   

Thursday, March 10, 2011

All Time Best English Movies(Comedy)

1. Modern Times(1936)


Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.

Cast

Charles Chaplin ... A Factory Worker (as Charlie Chaplin)
Paulette Goddard ... A Gamin
Henry Bergman ... Cafe Proprietor
Tiny Sandford ... Big Bill (as Stanley Sandford)
Chester Conklin ... Mechanic
Hank Mann ... Burglar
Stanley Blystone ... Gamin's Father
Al Ernest Garcia ... President of the Electro Steel Corp. (as Allan Garcia)
Richard Alexander ... Prison Cellmate (as Dick Alexander)
Cecil Reynolds ... Minister
Mira McKinney ... Minister's Wife (as Myra McKinney)
Murdock MacQuarrie ... J. Widdecombe Billows (as Murdoch McQuarrie)
Wilfred Lucas ... Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint ... Sheriff Couler (as Ed Le Sainte)
Fred Malatesta ... Cafe Head Waiter

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

All Time Best Indian Movies(Hindi Comedy)

1. Gol Maal


Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job. When Bhavani's daughter falls in love with the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, and insists on marrying him, and Bhavani insists she should marry Ramprasad, things take a whacky turn. A fake mother and a hilarious chase are other enjoyable features involved in this comedy.

Cast

Amol Palekar - Ramprasad / Lakshmanprasad
Utpal Dutt - Bhawani Shankar
Bindiya Goswami - Urmila
David - Doctor Kedar Mama
Deven Verma - Self
Dina Pathak - Mrs. Srivastava
Om Prakash - Police Officer (Guest Appearance)
Anjan Srivastav - Police Officer Sharma
Keshto Mukherjee - Drunk
Manju Singh - Ratna Sharma (Ramprasad's sister)
Shubha Khote - Kalindi aka Buaji
Yunus Parvez - Bade Babu

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

All Time Best Indian Movies(Bengali Drama)

1. Saptapadi(1961)


Its a love story with a twist set in Bengal in pre independent India (early 1940); the time when young Indian students were competing equally with British 'goras' in all fields whether it be education or sports. This was the time when barefooted Bengali football team defeated the booted British team to win the national football shield; this was the time when the ambitious and educated Calcutta students were matching their prowess in different fields of education with the British - be it law or medicine. It is in this time of rising nationalistic sentiments (1942 was when Gandhiji started the non violent Quit India movement) that Krishnendu (Uttam Kumar), a bright, young, athletic and Hindu Bengali youth falls in love with an equally talented and attractive but Christian Rina Brown (Suchitra Sen). Both of them were students in the National Medical College and they come close during their interaction in multitude of sports and cultural events (there is an interesting rendition of Othello within the movie; that portion of the movie was directed by Utpal Dutt). However their marriage is not on the cards due to the differences in religion (particularly opposed by Krishnendu's dad, a staunch, conservative Hindu) and they move each other ways only to clash unexpectedly again, later in life. Most of the movie is shown in flashback mode; Krishnendu pondering over the past upon his sudden and unexpected interaction with a drunk and passed out Rina in a military hospital in rural Bengal.

Cast
• Chhabi Biswas ... Krishnendu's Father
• Chhaya Devi ... Rina's maid
• Utpal Dutt ... Othello (voice-over)
• Tarun Kumar ... Krishnendu's friend
• Uttam Kumar ... Krishnendu
• Padmadevi ... Krishnendu's mother
• Suchitra Sen ... Rina Brown
• Jeniffer Kapoor ... Desdemona (voice over)