Min Dit: The Children of Diyarbakir (Before Your Eyes) (2009)

Director:   Miraz Bezar
Writer:      Miraz Bezar
Language: Turkish
Diyarbakir, in late 90s: two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street after their parents have been murdered by secret state security force.

Its a decent watch.

Rating: 2.5/5

Repulsion (1965)

Director: Roman Polanski
Writers:  Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach, David Stone
Cast:      Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a young beauty finds herself besieged on all sides by the demons of her past.

This is the first English language film from Polanski and is a tremendous achievement considering the time it was made. Reminded me of Shining and Repulsion can be considered as a precursor to the psychological thriller genre with minimal visuals.

Rating: 4.5/5

Caddyshack (1980)

Director: Harold Ramis
Writers:  Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis
Cast:      Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

Its a good watch and Bill Murray is excellent as always.

Rating: 3/5 

Chun gwong cha sit (Happy Together) (1997)

Director:    Wong Kar Wai
Writer:       Wong Kar Wai
Cast:          Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung, Chen Chang
Langauage: Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentinafrom Hong Kong and take to road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift.

As is usual with Wong Kar Wai films, visuals are stunning. Cinematography is done by his usual collaborator Christopher Doyle. Film starts off as black and white and become more colorful as it goes on. The usual themes for Wai like loneliness and melancholia are there for this film as well. Its very funny as well.

Rating: 5/5

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007)

Directors & Writers: Coens, Dardenne Brothers, Takeshi Kitano, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar Wai etc
A collective film of 33 short films directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Its a good watch and the films in the latter end were better for me.

Rating: 4/5

Amintiri din epoca de aur (Tales from the Golden Age) (2009)

Directors:  Hanno Hofer, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru, Razvan Marculescu
Writer:      Cristian Mungiu
Language: Romanaian
Tales from Golden Age is composed of five whimsical yet blackly comic short stories, each set in the late communist period in Romania and based on urban myths from the time, reflecting the perspective of ordinary people. The title of film refers to the alleged 'Golden Age' (by communist propaganda) of the last 15 years of Ceausescu's regime.

Another film that can be added to some great films that came out from Romania over the last 15 years.

Rating: 4/5

Hugo (2011)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers:  John Logan, Brian Selznick
Cast:      Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Film is incredibly shit with stale script and very wooden acting which makes the two hours unbearably long. Scorsese might have concentrated too hard on 3D elements forgetting the basic elements of a good film. James Cameroon was supposedly impressed. He would be as his Avatar was equally shit.

Rating:1.5/5