Not only that I haven’t filled this category lately, but I also haven’t published much lately. Long time no see, that’s true. This blog is now in the middle of major changes. My life is in the middle of major changes. Rodolfo Grimaldi Blog reached a level where it is in need of some new forms of monetization. It has been under scrutiny and audit in the last few months, and even now, these problems are not solved yet, at least not as I wish. I have avoided at all costs to invade you with advertising, thus making your experience here more enjoyable, but I’m not sure it did any good for my finances.
Long Time No See – Quite a library
Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash
I shall try to offer you more about myself, along with my advice on blogging, my essays on life or my movie reviews without spoilers. I have to admit that this is my favorite category, even if I dab in all the others with the same gusto.
As you noticed in my previous post, a new category has been inaugurated, the “Indian” movies. It’s not necessarily about Bollywood productions, but about movies with a predominantly Indian cast, or an Indian director. I am a great admirer of Mira Nair, Aamir Khan, Pan Nalin, Anurag Kashyap, or Zoya Akhtar. Even if Aamir Khan mostly plays in very commercial movies, involving all the Bollywood typical formulas with singing and dancing every fifteen-twenty minutes or so, his talent is remarkable. If you look after him you’ll find that his life is also remarkable. He is a modest humanitarian, who was never involved with the Indian mob, like Sanjay Dutt, another favorite of mine. Pursuing his social causes, he met Hillary Clinton. It was a big thing because she was Secretary of State, and her slapping backs with Harvey Weinstein was not something to be publicly ashamed at the time.
Mira Nair in a pictorial for The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), here with Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, and Kiefer Sutherland
The others are great Indian filmmakers who broke the Bollywood traditions, Mira Nair being the most famous. I can’t wait to fill more in this subcategory. I hope to help the West to enjoy the Indian cinema, especially the quality features. Take the Iranians: they are oppressed in the Western mind, they have Asghar Farhadi subscribed at the Oscars, and, like Mira Nair, he’s directing international films as well. They have Abbas Kiarostami, they have lobbyists like Marjane Satrapi, whose work I love. What’s not to love? Oh well, there is also Majid Majidi, my all-time favorite. I am fulfilled by his genuine sensibility. There are movies cornily created to draw your tears and there are the delicate ones who effortlessly moisten your eyes and soul. Mira Nair‘s Saalam Bombay (1988) stays in the second category. Nadine Labaki‘s Capernaum (2018), or Lenny Abrahamson‘s Room (2016) are in the first category. Even based on real events, they have something over the edge. Majid Majidi‘s The Color of Paradise (1999) and Children of Heaven (1997) are both in the second category.
I read a lot, but I’m tormented of writing about what I read. I’m also working at some old projects which never left my mind, no matter in what life stage I was. I noticed that I haven’t reviewed enough books for you to understand my tastes, I don’t do that on Goodreads as well, but there, at least, one can keep tabs with what I read, if I update my books in good time when it happens. I wonder if you genuinely want to know my tastes, not being a tabloid character or a reality show star. Doesn’t matter, your taste counts more, it’s only that if your taste is based on how media shaped your brain instead of what you truly feel, I can’t be on your side.
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