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[Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule] KEY TO MR. HAND'S SPRING 2005 POP MOVIE POP QUIZ: The Love Bug was the easy favorite, getting raised hands from Twosctrjns, Machine Gun McCain, the M.A.B., Dennis, Loxjet and Thom McG (“Though he’s brimming over with hostility in every Disney movie he’s ever been in, not that I blame him”¦”) But no one’s exactly in lockstep here”” Blaaagh likes Blackbeard’s Ghost, Dennis digs That Darn Cat!, Sharon speaks kindly of The Shaggy D.A., Alison likes “the one with the monkeys” (Monkeys, Go Home), and Murray refuses to discriminate””“I like ”˜em all!” (Even Snowball Express?)
[DJ Martian's Page] This Week's New Releases @ Boomkat This week's ...: His Radiq alter-ego, however, delivers something altogether new : sounding like a heavenly mixture of Jan Jelinek's loop-finding jazz sampledelics (seeped in the richest kind of poppin' static), Scott Herren's most delicate hip hop variations and Dictaphone's hazy midnight jazz emissions. This is another one of those all-too-rare releases that infuses minimal ingredients with so much warmth and humanity that you quickly forget how sparse the construction itself is.
[Lost in Media] 'Bride and Prejudice': Mr. Darcy and Lalita, Singing and Dancing: Whatever the case, 'Bride and Prejudice' - which transposes Austen's 1813 novel to 21st-century India, with layovers in swinging London and sunny Los Angeles - is as high concept and rife with cliche as anything ever churned out by Hollywood, but with worse production values and a load of sanctimonious political correctness. Think 'My Big Fat Sari Wedding' tricked out with putatively exotic locales and clumsy song-and-dance numbers, and delivered with much finger-wagging about cultural tolerance.
[Gibreel.net] UMMO Letters: The Pakistani government has reaffirmed its 40-year-old ban on screening Indian movies in the country, despite the current Bollywood infatuation with Indo-Pakistani reconciliation movies. It’s a good thing there’s such a thing as DesiTorrents to sneak your Bollywood fix past government censorship.
[Troubled-diva.com] troubled diva.: Groovin' With Mr. Bloe - Mr. Bloe 9. Woolly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs ... Don't Stop Till You Get To Bollywood - Bollywood Freaks ...
[Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: March 2003: The problem is, in well-integrated examples of the Bollywood style, major issues of plot and character development are worked out as often in the song lyrics as in action or dialogue -- the music, in other words, can't be skipped without gutting the narrative. (This would be much more obvious to Western viewers if the theatrical and DVD distributors of Hindi films dropped the frustrating practice of subtitling everything but the song lyrics.) Bollywood movies are "melodramas," and not only in the sense of heightened conflict between characters who are embodiments of social forces, but in the root sense of "music dramas," operas (or operettas) in a glossy pop format, achieving a range of emotional effects that, at their best, can be scalp-crawlingly effective.
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