Thanx to World Movies, and Zee Studio, I had the opportunity to get a taste of international movies. Francois Truffaut, Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Ingmar Berman etc. Also some amazing martial arts film like Hero & House of Daggers, don’t know who the directors were of the same. I am not a martial arts buff probably the only movie which in this realm of crouching tigers….The martial art sequences were almost like “poetry in motion”.
Truffault is like a nice story teller, most of his movies I saw were almost like seeing short stories. Some are intense, some were mysterious and some are just funny. I loved watching all of them especially 400 Blows which partly is loosely based on his growing up years.
Wong Kar Wai, on the other hand is very-very intense. It’s a different kind of movie like Kurosawa. I mean haven’t something like that before, cinematography, music, even the environment. Today I saw “In the mood for Love”, in which the claustrophobic rooms were used to (apparently) depict the trapped feelings which the protagonists were going through.
As I see these movies, I also read up about these directors on the net which explains a lot about why’s of the movie like Wong started as a graphic designer which is why most of his movies are visually so arresting and how he uses color palette so much so that each scenes looks like painting…
Truffault had a tough time as he grew up, served time in army, was a critic in a film magazine before he started what is known as “French New Wave movement” which rejected the traditional cinema structure..
Both these artists (and I guess most of the so called gurus…) didn’t have too many hits, blockbusters but for most them movie was an outlet, a form of expression of what they think, what they went through in their life.
I feel most of the good creative work i.e. books or movies borrows strongly on their self ….or maybe I like it that way.
