An Unquiet Mind

With this post, the film meme on this blog is com­ing to an end. I once again thank Dev from the bot­tom of my heart for urg­ing me to take this up. I am also deeply grate­ful to all of you who have appre­ci­ated my writ­ing, pro­vided numer­ous rec­om­men­da­tions, and shared your expe­ri­ences to make …

A ‘W’ is formed when two Valen­tine Vs bond together to say ‘We’. Hence my ‘W’ selec­tions are both enjoy­able romances. When this ‘W’ becomes the ‘M’ for Mar­riage, things some­times get topsy-turvy.
W
When Harry Met Sally
One of my all time favorite films, end­lessly re-watchable, to the point where it becomes dif­fi­cult for me to switch chan­nels …

The list of rec­om­mended films com­bin­ing my posts and your com­ments (exclud­ing this post), now totals 216 films. I wrote about 5 ways to cat­a­log movies online at MakeUseOf.com. If you have any pref­er­ences, do let me know. We can always get a spread­sheet down­load from any of those sites.
U
Unfor­given
Clint Eastwood’s homage to Ser­gio Leone and …

Ever had to take a leak dur­ing a long movie but didn’t want to miss the action? Runpee.com tells you the best time to go and also what you will (not) miss. They will soon have an iPhone app you can use to check Pee­Times, along with a timer that tells you how much longer …

Run­ner Up
Seven Samu­rai
The most famous and highly praised Japan­ese film of a band of samu­rais pro­tect­ing a vil­lage from ban­dits gave rise to an entire genre of films. ‘Schi­chinin no samu­rai’ is Kurosawa’s grand epic when he was at the height of his cre­ative pow­ers. For those who haven’t seen it, I can only say watch …

Do check out Karma Calling’s new twist to this meme with her Com­pre­hen­sive Geek Guide to Movies.
S
The Shaw­shank Redemp­tion
Fear can hold you pris­oner, hope can set you free.

A movie described as a ‘prison drama’ with a weird, difficult-to-pronounce name, no action sequences, and run­ning for two and a half hours. Fur­ther: no romance or love story, …

‘S’ encom­passes every­thing the movies embody. Sex and super­stars. Sus­pects and sleaze. Story-telling and sci-fi. Sen­su­al­ity, sen­ti­ments, and scars. The sea, the stars, and the sky. A sub­ject with sight and sound. The screen. Not sur­pris­ingly, ‘S’ is the most chal­leng­ing let­ter in this series because there are sim­ply too many excel­lent movies.
I short­listed 30 …

Don­ald Richie’s ground-breaking study, The Films of Akira Kuro­sawa is a must-read for any­one inter­ested in Japan­ese cin­ema or the art of film-making in gen­eral. I couldn’t help the length of this long post, the sub­ject war­ranted it.
R
Red Beard
Kuro­sawa once accom­pa­nied his brother through the ruins of Tokyo after the great Kanto earth­quake of 1923. …