A sentence for the movie I watched in 2022

After a gap of about ten long years, could Watch  many movies this year, Few of them impacted my mind, and few were so-so, as all will be forgotten soon; hence decided to write the name and, at the end, put one sentence for all of them  

Pans Labyrinth – 2006  Spanish, Guillermo del Toro    ---- Shacked my imagination.  

Rashomon   - 1950,   Akira Kurushawa –Gave me some hope. 

Loving Vincent - effort and simplicity touched my heart.

 

picture out of painting, Direction - Polish Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

AVATAR -1 – 2009 James Cameron – (2^nd Visit ): Liberal capitalism with detailing of perfect storytelling for my son 

Ex Machina – 2014 Alex Garland : Brainstorming, Dark twister -had dark thoughts after watching 

 

SOUL (Animation)-2020 -Pete Doctor – Beautiful imagination

Jalsagar – 1958 (Satyajit Ray ): Melancholy of change 

 Kantara (Kanada -2022)- folklore embraced in stereotype with a great amalgamation.

 Belfast 2021 Kenneth Branagh: Similar troubled history 

The Dark Knight Trilogy -  Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012)- avoided it for a long, lets us embrace  the fact. 

 Chiriyankhana (Bangla , Satyajit Ray-1967): Story Shradinanda Bangopodhyai,Byomkesh Bakshi 

Reinventing the master again 

Matrix Trilogy -avoided for very long , looked d down upon ----but reconciliation worth for 

  Minority Report (Spielberg-2002)- Dystopian narrative 

Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Satyajit Ray 1977)-Story -Munchi Premchand : Hats off to the two masters recreation

Hirak Rajar Dehse (Satyajit Ray 1980 ): Masters Political message 

Sonar kella (Satyajit Ray) 1974 Movie -Feluda: Great way to tell a story 

  A Yak in the classroom (2019-Bhutan entry into Oscar ): Simple but touching, felt the director ended it with a common cliche 

Bokul –(Assamese ,Reema Borah ) : A good story from Assam 

 

Murder at Orient Express  and Death at Nile: Efforts to discover Agatha Christie

The Darkest hour: The movie is made of cliche, but it is the truth hence really Inspiring in the modern condition (I forgot the layers as it is only a movie )  

  

Angoor 1982 Gulzar. Have revisited it many times, and every time saluted both masters. 

Naram Garam (Hrishikesh Mukherji1981): Childhood revisited 

The Big Short: I didn't understand many things - but enough to convey that Economy is a looming Monster, the importance of the movie will go up in the coming time with recession looming 

  Death of Stalin (2012): How the system works in a totalitarian world 

Youth: Sometimes, everything seems to be gone, with age it magnitude increase in that case this is a inspirational movie 

CODA : For music and inspiration 

AK 47; just wanted to know the story behind the man who made this killing machine. 

Indiana Jones and Temple of dooms  (Speilberg): Story for my son 

Spielberg (Documentary - Hotstar) : Wanted to know how he can touch so many people 

Fauci (Documentary - Hotstar)- Being a Clinical Microbiologist, you should know how to manage media and the system and balance it with science. 

Nomadland: That time to connect is missing in my life 

 

Shine: Music after the holocaust and a true story 

 

Licorice pizza: Forgettable except for the romanticism of the past 

 

 

Good Luck Jerry : Well-written dark comic thriller

Jug jug jio : A binge movie with wife  

Portrait of a Lady on Fire : painting old time LGBTQ 

Professor Shankhu in Eldorado  : To know modern adaptation of auteur 

 

83 - watch fresh only 

Sharma Namkin: One character by two actors is something to be watched for 

Thursday : A disappointing movie 

 

On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev

 

We were young and hopelessly innocent. 

There was darkness at our home, 

Though I could not understand  

The two-word perestroika and glasnost gave some hope 

maybe in a faraway fairyland - hoped the longing to be contagious 

The falling of the berlin wall and the EU  hope was spreading 

 Thought  of globalisation from a human angle as a rule 

It spread with that  came Macdonald's, Pizzahut and many more 

I wished to keep the identity through

Many thought otherwise …..

That was yesterday 

The pendulum shifted right; the setting has moved back to 1900 

The planet filled again with frictional explosives waiting for some mad man to light a cigar

and a spark of annihilation  leads repeat July 1914 

We need to find a new word for hope in the line of perestroika and glasnost in the coming time. 

And a person propagating that hope for the world. 

(Some random thoughts come to my mind on hearing his death )

Reading List 2019 to 2021

 

Reading as a habit is seemed to have lost its sheen thanks to the rise of digital platforms. But with an exploding population and old-world charm associated with books number of books being published is increasing, and a fraction of people are still holding to the good old habit of reading. Many people reinvented their lost love in the current pandemic, maybe reading, painting or cooking. 

 

I belong to the old world and still find solitude and self-realisation or a kind of meditation in reading. Going inside another person's creative process is sometimes like going into other people's lives, minds, and fantasies. Sometimes, it is their beliefs and struggles that I am interested in. Due to a busy mechanical daily life, I often keep my pleasure just by looking at books neatly kept in my Almirah. Many books are half-read, and many are yet to be opened.

 

Kindle was a thing I avoided over the years, just because I thought let me be in the old world. I saw the new generation comfortable with this reading, so I thought of giving it a try. I found it to be good in many senses -like lightweight, highlighting and taking notes, and keeping many books in your product. They may book has its disadvantage just like is with your book almirah. 

 

No time to read in conjunction with to busy schedule and a forgetful mind. I thought it would be best to keep track of what you have read every year. I was noting it in my diary for the last two years, but as they also have the chance of being lost, I thought of noting them up in my blog. 

Here is my reading list of the previous three years; it did not include the books which I collected and flipped only a few pages and kept for incubation; I wish I should have read more, but I can confidently say that the following books kept me engaged mentally and physically in my time with them. 

 

2019 

 

1.      মিচিমি বিহৰ সন্ধানত :তপন কুমাৰ শৰ্মা

2.     1984 -George Orwel 

3.     Man’s Search for Meaning -Viktor Frenkel 

4.     Buddha -Graphic Novel by Osomu Tezka (2 nd time read)

 

2020 

1.     Screenplay -the foundation of screenwriting (incomplete ) Syd Field 

2.     Assam Accord and Discord -Sangita Borah Pichorty 

3.     The Real Munin Borkotoy -Sisir Basumatary 

4.     Palestine -Graphic Novel by Joe Sacco 

5.     Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari  (incomplete read as COVID pandemic started after I completed first few chapters)

6.     IKIGAI Héctor García

 

2021 

1.     The Life at Play -Giris Karnard (Autobiography)- First literature book finished on Kindle 

2.     মোৰো এটা সপোন আছে -ৰুবুল মাউত 

3.     I, too, had a dream – Verges Kurien