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Usually I do not post movie reviews here, but these three films I saw last week have been harrying me about their non-inclusion, so there you go....a review of some sort.
The Control Room: You have seen F9/11, you felt it wasn't objective. Moore had a script, a pre-written story in his mind and his film was less of a documentary and more of a scripted slap-sticky narrative intended for a predominantly ADD audience. If these were your thoughts, make yourself walk that extra mile – go watch The Control Room.
What does Al Jazeera mean to you? A bunch of US haters with a TV channel in their hands? Think again, Al Jazeera is banned in Iraq because it is pro-American!
Broadcasting world wide from a country called Qatar(no it does not border Outer Mongolia) and which in reality is smaller than the state of Connecticut, is it just an Arab news channel which gets hold of all those Bin Laden commercials through a special pipeline before anyone else gets it? No, says the Control Room – the underrated but exceptional documentary from a camera placed in the control room of Al-Jazeera network by Jehane Noujaim. This Egyptian-American director was familiar to me from her earlier documentary – Startup.Com (about dotcom boom & bust in Bay Area) which I saw a couple of years ago. But The Control Room is in a league of its own mainly because of its more topical and controversial content. So if you want to switch from mono to stereo version of Iraq war, the Control Room has the switch (before the Republican Convention hogs it).
The Control Room:IMDb page. On a related take you might want to look in to Outfoxed:IMDb page
The Village: M.Night Shyamalan’s best film to date, he seems to have created a genre all by himself. Ha ha. Another movie which tells you not to worship the very earth so-called pompous all knowing film critics walk upon. It'll definitely break the stub off all you self-important people. But if you are one with a streak of impishness, I assure you, you'll love it. Life's not all that scary, you know. M.Night finds new frontiers in playing cameo and also finds Bryce Dallas Howard thru' this film.
The Village: IMDb Page
Teen Deewarein: After long…a Hindi film, a Nagesh Kukunoor one at that. Of all his films, Bollywood Calling is my personal favorite. The opening shot of Teen Deewarein is an almost exact copy of Shawshank Redemption, the rest of it luckily is not.
Naseeruddin Shah is an actor par excellence, such effortless acting! Gulshan Grover is a much underrated actor, I have always thought he speaks the best English for an Indian actor on screen(thats not all). He is brilliant as the police officer in charge of the prison.
The dialogs in this movie made me aware how Indian English is a world apart from the kind of ordinary everyday conversation in US. The long drawn sentences between Juhi Chawla and Jackie Shroff in the film, the heavy content laden words used in India now seems kind of dramatic, like reading prose. She should have just said, “Come on baby, light my fire” or just a “spit it out, dude”. No wonder they outsource to India!
3 Deewarein: IMDb Page
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