Amores Perros is a 2000 Mexican drama thriller film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. I didn't know till recently that it made part of a trilogy, of whom the other two parts were 21 Grams and Babel. I liked 21 Grams, I liked only the story in Babel (wonderful story broken up by Brad Pitt "World War Z!" style, he's a specialist in being utterly non-credible), but I have enjoyed this one, Amores Perros, the most. [source: imdb] I have to be ashamed … [Read more...]
Valley of Flowers
Valley of Flowers (La Vallée des fleurs) is a 2006 French-German-Indian Independent Film directed by Pan Nalin of Samsara fame. This is one of the best movies I've ever seen, it is beautiful, catchy, passionate, and spiritual. I think that it is unfortunately not known at large. I feel that writing about it, is revealing enough to spoil the surprise. [source of all pics: imdb] It is an adventurous romantic drama, it is a love story of at least two centuries, started at the beginnings of … [Read more...]
Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
Head-On, or Gegen Die Wand (in German, in original), is the most praised movie by the German of Turkish origin director, Fatih Akın. This is also the most awarded of his movies. It won The Golden Bear in 2004 Berlinale, he, Akın, won Fipresci Prize, at the same festival, "Best Director", "Best Film" at European Film Awards, and many more. [source] This is a Turkish drama, even if it takes place in Germany, the most important country of Turkish Diaspora. The descendants of Asian … [Read more...]
Midnight’s Children – The Movie
One of the most acclaimed novels of all times, Midnight's Children, by the highly controversial author, Salman Rushdie , has been put on screen by another Indian, who lives in Canada now, Deepa Mehta. I have read the book a few times, it's the best book ever written by Rushdie, and it's also the most awarded of his entire creation. He is partly famous because of a major controversy, created by his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, which provoked protests from Muslims in the whole world. Death … [Read more...]
Soul Kitchen
I wanted from the beginnings of this blog to feature one of the most talented directors alive, who happens to be Turk. Fatih Akın is a Hamburger Turk, born in 1973. I have seen and enjoyed almost all his movies, even his fragments in the collective humanitarian releases, like New York, I Love You, or Visions of Europe. Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German movie, directed by Akin (you see, I started to use his European surname spelling, with "i" instead of the Turkish "ı"). The movie is also written by … [Read more...]
The Family
The Family is a dark action comedy directed by the French famous Luc Besson. Besson is lately more a producer than a director, but we can always remember him for Subway, Le Grand Bleu, Nikita, Léon: The Professional, or The Fifth Element. If Quentin Tarantino became of originally reference across movie genres, Luc Besson is highly original before Tarantino. His movies and ideas were adapted in Hollywood for the American public taste. [source] The Family, because of Besson, is considered … [Read more...]