The Bands Visit - Israel - 2007

A Bands visit was the first oscar nominee from Israel for the year 2007. Israel later sent another movie instead.

The story is simple. An egyptian orchestra band arrives at Israel to perform. but they go to a different place due to
misunderstandings in communication and they are forced to stay the night at the wrong place. what each member experiences during
that single night of stay has been well told.

I liked the film a lot.

Before the Rains - India - 2007

Santosh Sivans Only for the festival film, "Before the rains" is a deliciously shot movie in kerala.

I havent seen any other movie which has captured the landscape of Kerala so beautifully.

Can be seen for the good visuals.

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi - India - 2003

I heard about this film only when Mohsen Makhmalbaf came to chennai and said that he wanted the DVD of this movie.

Hmmm. Must have been a good movie.

A good watch.


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The Green Mile - English - 1999

The Green Mile is a fantastic film about an ordinary human with extraordianry powers.

A human who can take the evil things in men and release it back to nature.


A Must watch.



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The counterfeiters - 2007 - Austria

The counterfeiters is a 2007 film that won the best foreign language film awards in oscar for that year.

Its a WW2 movie and tells the story of a group of talented jews who are used by the germans for the war.

The Germans try to illegally print the British pound and American dollar and they use the jewish fraudster for this purpose.

Was the jews able to successfully produce counterfeit pounds and dollars and whether they escape alive is the story.

A good movie.

The counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters

Where Eagles Dare - English - 1968

Where Eagles dare is a War film set amidst world war 2.

A good war movie.

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Poi Solla Porom - Tamil - 2008

Poi solla Porom is the remake of Khosla ka Ghosla and this is the second remake from the director Vijay, the first one being Krieedom.

Poi solla porom was advertised as an out and out comedy film, but I didnot find anything comic in it.

the movie is clearly targeted at the multiplex crowd bcos it had no fights, no senti etc... And for a change, Karthik appears as a person wanting to go to America instead of being the America Return :-)

If you would like to see a movie about the hardships faced during construction of a house , you can just watch "veedu" from Balu Mahendra

Ok ... can be skipped.

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